Rick Warren
Rick Warren
Richard Duane "Rick" Warrenis an American evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch in Lake Forest, California, that is the eighth-largest church in the United States. He is also a bestselling author of many Christian books, including his guide to church ministry and evangelism, The Purpose Driven Church, which has spawned a series of conferences on Christian ministry and evangelism. He is perhaps best known for the subsequent book...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 January 1954
CitySan Jose, CA
CountryUnited States of America
The problem with most American churches is that they teach too much and don't do enough.
Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.
Life is a school and problems are the curriculum.
Marriage doesn't create problems. It reveals them. You bring unresolved stuff into it.
Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.
We have a choice of focusing on our problems or focusing on God, who holds the solution.
You dont judge the strength of an army by how many soldiers sit and eat in the mess hall, but by how they perform on the front line. Likewise a churchs strength is not seen in how many show up, but in how many serve in the ministry.
Faithful servants never retire, ... You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
Life is all about stewardship. It all belongs to God - he just loans it to us for a short period of time. The first command God gave to man was to take care of the Earth, which includes managing and protecting the environment.
We really don't know when and where Joe began to display any signs of intoxication.
I'm Southern Baptist, our church is Southern Baptist, and we cooperate in SBC missions support at every level,
I think everybody has brokenness. There's no doubt about that. We live in a fallen world. This is not heaven. Everybody has scars. Everybody is hurting somewhere, I guarantee you that. Everyone has a hidden hurt.
It basically means the bar closes and everything you've got invested is lost.
It comes from service. It is by giving our lives away that we find meaning, because that's the way we're wired, I believe, by God.