“A couple weeks ago I did 6 TV interviews including Fox News Live, ABC, NBC, and CBN, so this spiritual awakening is starting to get the attention of the media.”
Rick Warren, Nov. 2003 Peace Plan Letter
“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 WarrenThe unveiling of Rick’s PEACE plan
was supposedly, "the MOST IMPORTANT message ever taught
by him at his church. Rick gave his first PEACE PLAN message in
November 2003 believing that the message was from God
through him
to the world.
He said, "The church was global 200 years before anybody started talking about globalization. Nothing has as many people groups, as many languages, as many contacts as the church..."
"We, (Saddleback Church) will be the first church in 2000 years of Christianity to literally go to every nation."
In his sermon unveiling his PEACE plan,
he also told his congregation that he had been wrong for 25 years
about something, and he wanted them to know he was wrong.
He said he was wrong... all that time he had been thinking
that the "greatest thing a person could do" in their life
was lead another person to Christ,
but now he knows he was wrong
and now he knew what the greatest thing
that a person could do really was.
He told them
that he now believed
that the greatest thing
a person could do
was "build a church."
he also told his congregation that he had been wrong for 25 years
about something, and he wanted them to know he was wrong.
He said he was wrong... all that time he had been thinking
that the "greatest thing a person could do" in their life
was lead another person to Christ,
but now he knows he was wrong
and now he knew what the greatest thing
that a person could do really was.
He told them
that he now believed
that the greatest thing
a person could do
was "build a church."
One can only guess what kind of church that might be…
Here is a guess…
"Purpose Driven."
But more was unveiled in 2005,
at Anaheim Stadium, CA,
when Rick gave an anniversary speech to a crowd.
He told his church members
and all who were celebrating with him
all around the world:
"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....
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
"The elements
of P.E.A.C.E. are 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.
The acronym “P.L.A.N.S.” details some of the key values that make the P.E.A.C.E. Plan so revolutionary."
Facing the Worlds Five Evil Giants by Rick and Kay Warren
Yeah Rick... What do you think will happen?
What do you think will happen when people
see Hitler, Stalin and Mao as our example?
Will people now listen to you,
just like they listened to Hitler and Chairman Mao?
What kind of human effort do you
Rick, think it will take,
what kind of passion,
and what exactly will have to happen,
("Whatever it takes")
..What kind of things... will people do
in the church
order to achieve
this kind of
PEACE?
What do you think will happen when people
see Hitler, Stalin and Mao as our example?
Will people now listen to you,
just like they listened to Hitler and Chairman Mao?
What kind of human effort do you
Rick, think it will take,
what kind of passion,
and what exactly will have to happen,
("Whatever it takes")
..What kind of things... will people do
in the church
order to achieve
this kind of
PEACE?
A NEW PLAN for PEACE?
"The elements
of P.E.A.C.E. are 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.
The acronym “P.L.A.N.S.” details some of the key values that make the P.E.A.C.E. Plan so revolutionary."
Facing the Worlds Five Evil Giants by Rick and Kay Warren
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