On Faith and Fear

"God is more interested in growing your faith than relieving your your fear"

-Rick Warren, August 11, 2014 Facebook

What bible is he preaching from?  How much faith does it take?  

Luke 17:6
And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

And as for reliving your fears... Bible teahes differently than Rick... for God is the God of all comfort.

Rick is a rascal if he says that God is not interested in relieving our fears.  

Does God not care about you and your fears? Yes, he does.

2 Corinthians 1:4
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves arecomforted of God.

Psalm 34:4
I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Psalm 118:6
The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

Luke 12:32
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Built Upon....

Unfortunately Rick replaces Jesus Christ with his own idea.... "purpose."
"Healthy churches are built on purpose! " 

~Rick Warren

,Forget Church Growth, Aim for Church Health

"Strong churches are built on Purpose!" ~ Rick Warren


"Nothing precedes purpose." ~ Rick Warren

The Purpose Driven Church, Chapter 3

Truth is...


Healthy churches are built by faith in the Rock, Jesus Christ.  (Matthew 16:18)

Strong churches are branches, built on the vine... Jesus Christ. 

                          For without him, we can do nothing. (John 15:5)

Nothing precedes Jesus Christ.  (John 1:1)

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

Rick Warren on Building Your Life

Father's Day 2014
"In-In the Bible, God often compares... living your life to building a building.  And he says.. that just like with a building, you can build a good life, or a bad life, a strong life or a weak life, you can build a life that leaves a legacy, makes an impact, a life of greatness... or you can just blow your life, you can waste it, you can, you can do nothing with it.  You have really three options to do with your life.  You can, you can waste your life ... you can, you can spend your life or you can invest your life....."



"....You can waste your life....There are lots of ways to waste your life: You can spend your life, you can spend your life watching TV. you can spend it reading stupid novels and dumb magazines, you can waste, you can spend your life shopping, you can spend it on the golf course, but at the end of it nothing is going to matter.  You can actually build a great life... this fathers day that is what I want to look at, "How can I build a great life, a life of purpose"

Rick Warren, 6/16/2014, Sunday Sermon

Where in the bible does God compare living your life to building a building?
Rick does not say.

Rick tells us that "he says," ( "he" there, refered to God) "... "And he says, that just like with a building, you can build a good life, or a bad life, a strong life or a weak life, you can build a life that leaves a legacy, makes an impact, a life of greatness... or you can just blow your life, you can waste it, you can, you can do nothing with it. "

God says this?  Where?
I recall something about building... with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay and stubble, but Rick talked about building a life of greatness.
Greatness?
Impact?
Legacy?


What is the foundation upon which you build your greatness?
Purpose?  ....Or something else?

...And ... a "good life," what does that look like?

It's probably the kind of life that would never admit to being normal or even mediocre...
 weak... needy... helpless or even wretched, pitiful, or blind.    (2 Cor 12:9-11)(Revelation 3:17)
After all, the goal is greatness and impact.  Right?


And all those "builders".... doing those wonderful works....of impact and legacy and greatness,  what is the foundation of hat is being built?  (Acts 4:11)

Purpose?

Or something esle?

Matthew 7
Jesus speaking:

"Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.