“The Peace Plan’s not new or different than traditional missions. The difference is not so much in what is done, but rather both how it is done and who does it.”
What makes the Peace plan so different? purposedriven.com; 2005
“You may have already heard about the PEACE Plan we're developing...It is a local church-based paradigm for missions in the 21st century, and we believe God will use it to bring worldwide revival.”
The task before us is enormous, but God is equipping us by Rick Warren
At the unveiling of the Peace Plan,
Rick made a humble confession
to his congregation....
about something he was wrong about...
wrong for the last twenty-five
years about. Solemnly he told them that he
used to believe "the greatest thing a person could
do was lead another person to faith in Christ"
....but he "was wrong."
Rick made a humble confession
to his congregation....
about something he was wrong about...
wrong for the last twenty-five
years about. Solemnly he told them that he
used to believe "the greatest thing a person could
do was lead another person to faith in Christ"
....but he "was wrong."
He apparently had a "change of mind"...
(metanioa you know.. by Rick Warren's own definition)
(metanioa you know.. by Rick Warren's own definition)
After confessing that he was wrong, or rather,
"repenting in front of the congregation
that he had been wrong, for so long, he told them,
that he now believes,
(correctly?)
that " the greatest thing a person
can do is build a church."
"repenting in front of the congregation
that he had been wrong, for so long, he told them,
that he now believes,
(correctly?)
that " the greatest thing a person
can do is build a church."
He also announce the "five giants"
he intended to conquere with this P.E.A.C.E.
plan "from God."
he intended to conquere with this P.E.A.C.E.
plan "from God."
Interestingly enough one of the giants
was "ungoldy leaders." Now he was not
talking about unbelievers... He was not talking
about the tyranical dictators
who rule without
justice and liberty
No.
He was talking
about men of God.
And suddenly...
poverty and disease,
not murder, greed and envy,
were of the five the greatest
evils in the world.
.
He went on to described
those "ungogly leaders".....
as "leaders of the church who have never been to seminary."
was "ungoldy leaders." Now he was not
talking about unbelievers... He was not talking
about the tyranical dictators
who rule without
justice and liberty
No.
He was talking
about men of God.
And suddenly...
poverty and disease,
not murder, greed and envy,
were of the five the greatest
evils in the world.
.
He went on to described
those "ungogly leaders".....
as "leaders of the church who have never been to seminary."
Realizing his mistake
perhaps too
revealing of his purpose,
he changed his verbiage.
Nowcalls this particular
EVIL GIANT,
"a lack of servant leaders.."
in the church,
--and of course,
he will be the
one to eqipt these
"sevant leaders"
in the "church"
teach them
to be "heathy" pastors...
(by his own definition of health.)
.
His sermon on that day
it was pretty clear...
the evil giant to be conquered
was not REALLY
"ungodly" leaders;
not about redemption of the lost,
rather this was
to be an endogenous
move to
the church.
perhaps too
revealing of his purpose,
he changed his verbiage.
Nowcalls this particular
EVIL GIANT,
"a lack of servant leaders.."
in the church,
--and of course,
he will be the
one to eqipt these
"sevant leaders"
in the "church"
teach them
to be "heathy" pastors...
(by his own definition of health.)
.
His sermon on that day
it was pretty clear...
the evil giant to be conquered
was not REALLY
"ungodly" leaders;
not about redemption of the lost,
rather this was
to be an endogenous
move to
the church.
He said, "Not only have these leaders not gone to seminary or Bible school, they haven’t even gone to high school or primary school. They have no training whatsoever -- and yet they lead the church. This must be remedied."
Apparently Rick Warren simply hates "unschooled and ordinary men"
who dare to carry out the will and preach the word of God.
UNhealthy (not purpose driven) churches and their leaders
are pegged by Rick to his hearer.as "evil giants" to be conquered...
in order to bring peace to the world.
These "ungodly leaders" (not Hitler or Stalin or Mao of Communist China,
lumped along with "poverty", "disease", "illitteracy" (now called ignorance)
and "spiritual lostness" (now called "spiritual darkness")
are the evils in the world?
who dare to carry out the will and preach the word of God.
UNhealthy (not purpose driven) churches and their leaders
are pegged by Rick to his hearer.as "evil giants" to be conquered...
in order to bring peace to the world.
These "ungodly leaders" (not Hitler or Stalin or Mao of Communist China,
lumped along with "poverty", "disease", "illitteracy" (now called ignorance)
and "spiritual lostness" (now called "spiritual darkness")
are the evils in the world?
Dear Christian friends... "what "spirit"?
Who IS this man?
Who IS this man?
Acts 4:13-14
When they saw the courage of Peter and John
and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men,
they were astonished
and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.
But since they could see the man who had been healed
standing there with them, there was nothing they could say.
1 Corinthians 1:26-29
Brothers, think of what you were when you were called.
Not many of you were wise by human standards;
not many were influential;
not many were of noble birth.
But God chose the foolish things of the world
to shame the wise;
God chose the weak things of the world
to shame the strong.
He chose the lowly things of this world
and the despised things —
and the things that are not —
to nullify the things that are,
so that no one may boast before him.
Who is this man?
“You’ve heard me say many times that the greatest thing you can do with your life is tell somebody about Jesus … if you help somebody secure their eternal destiny, that they spend the rest of their life in Heaven not Hell …your life counts, your life matters because nothing matters more than helping get a person and their eternal destiny settled. They will be forever eternally grateful….And I’ve always said that that was the greatest thing you can do with your life.... I was wrong. ”
Sunday Sermon at Saddleback Church, 11/2003 Rick Warren announces Global Peace Plan
from http://www.thepeaceplan.com/ (4/14/10)
DISCOVER THE PEACE PLAN
Promote Reconciliation
Equip Servant Leaders
Assist The Poor
Care For The Sick
Educate The Next Generation
Equip Servant Leaders
Assist The Poor
Care For The Sick
Educate The Next Generation
The vision behind the PEACE Plan is to mobilize
Christians everywhere to address the world's
Christians everywhere to address the world's
5 GIANT PROBLEMS
1) Spiritual Emptiness;
2) Corrupt Leadership;
3) Extreme Poverty;
4) Pandemic Disease;
and
and
5) Rampant Illiteracy.
Each letter of PEACE is distinct
and works with the others as a "wholistic" unit.
and works with the others as a "wholistic" unit.
As benevolent as this sounds... think again.
Listen to his original sermon.
Listen to his original sermon.
Examine what, exactly IS "ungodly"
Rick says,
“The second giant we want to tackle is the lack of servant leaders around the world." (originally spoken to Saddleback as “ungodly” leaders) "Around the world, there are plenty of people in leadership who abuse their power. Many refuse to use their power for the good of their people -- instead they choose to use it for themselves. This has created chaos in the world. Leaders must have moral basis. They must have wisdom. Proverbs 11:14 (NLT) says, “Without wise leadership, a nation falls.” Proverbs 16:12b (Msg) says, “Sound leadership has a moral foundation.” And Zechariah 10:2 (TEV) says, “People wander around like lost sheep. They are in trouble because they have no leader. In the developing world there are 2.1 million pastors and church leaders. Of those, 1.9 million have never had any training at all. Not only have these leaders not gone to seminary or Bible school, they haven’t even gone to high school or primary school. They have no training whatsoever -- and yet they lead the church. This must be remedied.”
FACING THE WORLD'S GIANTS by Rick and Kay Warren.purposedriven.com
Rick Warren on KBMI Radio, Moody Bible Broadcasting Network OPEN LINE PROGRAM, October 7, 2005 with Host Wayne Shepherd:
“ I -I looked at this guy and said, “How do you get my sermons? You don’t even have water, or electricity here, how do you get my sermons?” And he said”, “No, but he said, they are putting the Internet in every post office….. “Once a week I walk an hour and a half to the nearest post office and I download your free sermon and I go back and I preach and he said, “that is the only education and the only training I ever received.. When I heard that Wayne, something broke in my heart. I mean, and I couldn’t be the same, and I said, I would give the rest of my life, for guys like that. So, I went out and I just sat down under the African sky at night, and I said, “God, I know that leadership training, is one of the big problems in the world…”
We've been testing PEACE kits and created a "clinic in a box" with $5,000 worth of medications that we can get for $350 wholesale. We also have others like "school in a box," "business in a box," even "church in a box."
Article: Pastor lays out a global vision 'The Purpose-Driven Life' author sees role for his church in solving world's problems. By ANN PEPPER The Orange County Register 4-17-05
“There’s only one thing that lasts forever and keeps standing in a community, and that’s the Church.”
This could be the Church’s finest hour By Rick Warren
“Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my words will not pass away.” Jesus
(Matthew 24:25)
“The influence of the book keeps amazing me everyday as I get requests for autographed copies. In today's stack: I signed books for 1) All the Supreme Court Justices 2) One for Fidel Castro (!) 3) One for the President of Peru (these last 2 were Spanish editions), and I recently got a note saying that everyone on Air Force One was reading the book recently. But all this is not about us. God's intention is much bigger than the book.”
Peace Plan Letter; Rick Warren. Nov. 2003
Last week, Paul Harvey told everyone to go buy a copy of PDL on his ABC radio broadcast. He said "This is one of the most insightful books I've ever read and I will read it again...and again...and again." In 2004 we expect over 15,000 more churches to participate.”
(Peace Plan Letter ; Rick Warren, Nov. 2003)
"For the past 18 months we have been on a stealth, secret mission - project - around the world. We've been sending members out, actually over 4500 members somewhere overseas, over the period of the the last few years, going out to do what we're gonna call the PEACE plan......Friends, this is going to be a revolution. You see, over the years as we've been training these 400,000 churches around the world, we've built a network, and there are literally tens of thousands of other churches waiting to do what Saddleback has been testing the last few years.
What is the vision for the next twenty-five years? I'll tell you what it is. It is the global expansion of the Kingdom of God. It is the total mobilization of this church and the third part is the radical devotion of every believer. Now I choose that word radical intentionally. Because only radicals change the world. Everything great done in this world is done by passionate people. Moderate people get moderately nothing done.
In 1939, in a stadium much like this, in Munich Germany, they packed it out with young men and women in brown shirts, for a fanatical man standing behind a podium named Adolf Hitler, the personification of evil. And in that stadium, those in brown shirts formed with their bodies a sign that said, in the whole stadium,
"Hitler, we are yours." And they nearly took the world.
Lenin once said, "give me 100 committed, totally committed men and I'll change the world." And, he nearly did. A few years ago, they took the sayings of Chairman Mao, in China, put them in a little red book, and a group of young people committed them to memory and put it in their minds and they took that nation, the largest nation in the world by storm because they committed to memory the sayings of the Chairman Mao.
When I hear those kinds of stories, I think 'what would happen if American Christians, if world Christians, if just the Christians in this stadium, followers of Christ, would say 'Jesus, we are yours' ?
What kind of spiritual awakening would we have ?
"Jesus said, 'I want you to do this publicly.' So what I want you to do is take the card, and in just a minute, and if you say 'Rick, I am willing to serve God's purposes in my generation.'
I want you to open up to the sign that says 'Whatever it takes.'Whatever it takes.
And I want you to just say, 'This is my commitment, before God and in front of everybody else. I'm in.' "And I would invite you to just stand quietly and hold up 'Whatever it takes'. . .
I'm looking at a stadium full of people who are saying 'whatever it takes'.
Whatever it takes, God. Time, talent, energy, money, effort, vision... God, whatever it takes. Whatever it takes, that's what I'm going to do.
And I believe that today we are making history. We're making history that's going to start a movement that will bring a new Reformation in the church of God and a new spiritual awakening in our world. And, our world needs it. And today, as you say 'whatever it takes,' you're saying publicly,
"I'm in, God. I'm in...
...I'm in.' "
Rick Warren, 25th anniversary of Saddleback Church, April 17,2005, Anaheim Stadium
Rick is certain this is something BIG., maybe even something greater than Hitler, Stalin and Mao...
He calls it a "reformation" of the church. The "American Christians" (the one's he speaks badly about ofte) will all now stand before God and tell him, they are in to this PEACE Plan of Rick's and like the people of Germany in 1939, like the people of Russia and Communist China, they will all do, "Whatever it takes" to eradicate the world of it's evils..... as defined by Rick and and bring a "new spiritual awakening" to our world..
Some people will do "whatever it takes" to eradicate their idea of "evil" in the world.
Hitler... did just that.
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