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Hollywood Rick Warren & Spiritual Euthanasia

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Robert [OP]

2005-04-09 18:05 | User Profile

**[size=2] [center]SPIRITUAL EUTHANASIA [/center] [center]A PARABLE OF THE PURPOSE DRIVEN CHURCH [/center] [center]PURPOSE DRIVEN CHRISTIANITY....A WAY THAT SEEMS RIGHT UNTO MAN, OR WHO'S END IS DESTRUCTION? [/center] [/size]

   **  [size=3]"First they came for “resisters” and “pillars” of Brunswick Reformed Church, Brunswick, Ohio because they opposed Purpose Driven Life and Church, but I didn't speak up because I was not a member of Reformed Church of American (RCA) denomination.[/size]

    [size=3]Then they came after a lady who was an elder lady in the faith who had been with the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas since 1956 by shouting her down with spiritual euthanasia and aggressive mean-spirited behavior, and the intimidation of seven attorneys, because she opposed them turning their landmark Criswell Center into a Purpose Driven entertainment center. But I did not speak up because I was not a widow.[/size]

    [size=3]Then they held a trial for two families at Valley Baptist Church in Lakeland, Minnesota, but I didn't speak up because I was not a member of the General Baptist Convention. [/size]

    [size=3]Then they came after 165 members of Gardendale Baptist Church, Corpus Christi, Texas and ran them out of the church, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Southern Baptist. [/size]

    [size=3]Then a brother did finally speak up and tried to warn Eugene Christian Fellowship because they had gone Purpose Driven, but they threatened legal action and told him to stop spamming them. But I did not speak up for fear of being accused of spamming or being sued by a church.[/size]

    [size=3]Then a news reporter for a large Christian radio network sounded the alarm on His Holy Hill of this clear and present danger. They ran the story, but received more gnashing of teeth from callers then they had ever had, so they censored this story from their Agape Press print media news service. [/size]

    [size=3]Then still another brother on another Christian radio ministry broadcast testimonies of Christians thrown out of their churches across the country, but the network threatened to remove his show from the air, if another broadcast was ever made that said anything bad about Rick Warren. But I did not speak up because I had friends and family who were either employed by an organization that promoted Purpose Driven Church, or were in Purpose Driven Church, and I did not want to lose those relationships.[/size]

    [size=3]Then they came after a large group of members at New Hope Church in Bend, Oregon. But I didn't speak up because I wasn't a member of The Evangelical Church denomination or the National Association of Evangelicals. [/size]

    [size=3]Then they came after a carpenter and his wife at Calvary Community Church in Phoenix, Arizona with the police and a sheriff and escorted him out of the church and off of the grounds for trying to expose the deeds of darkness and the teachings of Rick Warren, telling him that if he returned, he would be arrested. But I didn't speak up because I wasn't a member of the Calvary Chapel denomination. [/size]

    [size=3]Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me, because every church in the nation had become Purpose Driven and part of his Global PEACE Plan."[/size]

    Compiled and Adapted by James Sundquist

    Based on Rev. Martin Neimoeller's Poem below written in 1945

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Robert

2005-04-10 13:02 | User Profile

[font=Georgia]From Paul Proctor:[/font]

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[font=Georgia]Speaking at a “Building A Purpose Driven Church” seminar, Warren had this to say: “Loud, raucous music with a driving beat is the kind of music his folks listened to.” He said, “We are really, really loud on a weekend service ….I say, 'we're not gonna turn it down’. Now the reason why is baby boomers want to feel the music, not just hear it…” [/font]

[font=Georgia]But, you know, as sad and revealing as these remarks are – nothing prepared me for the following statement from Pastor Warren: [/font]

[font=Georgia]“To insist that all good music came from Europe          200 years ago; there’s a name for that - racism.” [/font]

[font=Georgia]Do you see what he’s doing here? Showing anything BUT “tolerance, diversity and unity”, (the driving doctrine of seekerism), Warren does what liberals ALWAYS do to traditionalists; he [u]pulls the          race card[/u] to try and not just elevate himself and his cause under a guise of humility and compassion but also shame his “stuck in the past” critics into silence with politically correct hyperbole and innuendo. [/font]

[font=Georgia]So, HEAD'S UP all you elderly and traditional Christians out there because taking exception to music at church that is spiritually, emotionally and physically unhealthy, now makes you a racist. [/font]

askel5

2005-04-10 20:05 | User Profile

What is the meaning of "purpose driven" ?

Robert

2005-04-10 20:32 | User Profile

You could try the following site to get some background: [url="http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/2003/1-purpose.htm"]http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/2003/1-purpose.htm[/url]

Basically, Purpose Driven is Warren's marketing term. He has developed a humanistic approach to church, in which churches operate according to the "purpose" set forth by Warren.

With Warrenism, churches are to use a Peter Drucker-inspired management and marketing approach. You take a survey, determine what the consumer wants, and deliver the desired product. Obviously, the approach is totally unbiblical.

Warren encourages pastors to take dictatorial control of their churches, and states that harsh church discipline is to be meted out against those who resist. The resisters are driven from the church and labeled as "blessed subtractions".

Warren's purpose-driven cancer has infected untold thousands of churches. Warren is an apostate Southern Baptist, but his methods have even been adopted by some mormons and jews.

Warren is watering down Christianity and turning it into one big marketing scheme. This obviously appeals to many pastors, who would like to grow their churches and increase their salaries. It's almost a get-rich quick scheme for pastors.