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Bad Philosophies in the church

July 22 2004 at 8:02 PM
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Divorce is rampant and its due to feminism and the fruits of the tree of discontentment.

It all started in the garden of Eden

Genesis 3
16Then he said to the woman, "You will bear children with intense pain and suffering. And though your desire will be for your husband,[1] he will be your master."


Footnotes

1. 3:16 Or And though you may desire to control your husband.


Now men can be divorced, their children stolen from them aided by a corrupt justice system and the church could care less.

 
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Rick Warren’s Philosophy in the Church Is B-a-a-a-a-d!!!

July 24 2004, 4:23 AM 

We’ve heard much about Rick Warren and the Community Church Growth Movement. He is a contemporary Southern Baptist pastor of Saddleback Community Church, a mega-church in southern California. Instead of explaining what the conservative Southern Baptists think of their fellow Baptist pastor, I am posting an unedited article below. If Rick Warren’s philosophy is not well accepted among the conservative Baptists, shouldn’t that give churches of Christ more reason to be even less accepting? Consider what happens to a congregation that embraces and implements the culture-driven church growth philosophy of his. Do you know of such a congregation?

Donnie Cruz

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Source: http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/rickwarren-judgenot.html
June 15, 2004 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org …)


RICK WARREN’S DANGEROUS JUDGE NOT ECUMENISM



Rick Warren’s book The Purpose Driven Life is a No. 1 bestseller in both Christian and secular markets. It has sold several million copies and at least two million people have participated in “40 Days of Purpose” campaigns. In October 2003, Jerry Falwell (who is associated both with the Southern Baptist Convention and the Baptist Bible Fellowship) teamed up with Warren for a Purpose-Driven “SuperConference” with the goal of influencing 10,000 church leaders.

Warren is the senior pastor of Saddleback Community Church, a contemporary Southern Baptist mega-church in southern California.

His book The Purpose Driven Life contains extensive documentation of his dangerous and unscriptural “judge not” ecumenical philosophy.

On page 164, for example, Warren says, “God warns us over and over not to criticize, compare, or judge each other. ... Whenever I judge another believer, four things instantly happen: I lose fellowship with God, I expose my own pride, I set myself to be judged by God, and I harm the fellowship of the church.”

In typical New Evangelical fashion Warren makes no distinction between judging hypocritically (which is forbidden in Matthew 7) or judging on the basis of personal preference in matters not commanded in Scripture (which is forbidden in Romans 14) and judging on the basis of the Bible.

Actually, the child of God has an obligation to judge everything by God’s Word. The believers at Corinth were rebuked because they were careless in this regard and were tolerant of false teachers (2 Cor. 11:1-4). The Bereans, on the other hand, were commended because they carefully tested everything by the Scriptures (Acts 17:11). The Bible says “he that is spiritual judgeth all things” (1 Cor. 2:15) and Jesus taught that we should “judge righteous judgment” (John 7:24). We are to judge preaching (1 Cor. 14:29) and sin in the churches (1 Cor. 5). We are to try the spirits (1 John 4:1).

To test preachers and their message carefully by God’s Word is not a matter of pride, but wisdom and obedience.

In keeping with his judge not philosophy, Rick Warren uncritically quotes from a wide variety of theological heretics, especially Roman Catholics such as Mother Teresa, Brother Lawrence (Carmelite monk), John Main (Benedictine monk), Madame Guyon, John of the Cross, and Henri Nouwen. Warren does not warn his readers that these are dangerous false teachers who held to a false gospel and worshipped a false christ. Mother Teresa and Nouwen were universalists who believed that men can be saved apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ.

As for the “Purpose Driven” philosophy, we don’t need a man’s shallow encapsulations of the New Testament faith; we need the “whole counsel of God” as found in the Scriptures.

Where are those conservative Southern Baptists who are lifting their voices to sound a plain warning about Rick Warren’s errors? The silence is deafening.

In the strongest terms we urge our readers to beware of Rick Warren and the Purpose Driven philosophy.

 
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