Sweetwater and Bitter

"Hi Everybody, I'm Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in southern California and author of the Purpose driven Life, and I just wanted to be able to say Congratulations Catholic Relief Services  on 70 years of being the hands and feet and heart of Jesus all around the world"... "Catholic Relief services is helping people tin ways that no one else is helping others."    - Rick Warren 


Here, in May 2013, we see Rick Warren congratulate Roman Catholics "for 70 years of being the hands and feet of Jesus" meanwhile for the last few years he has taken opportunity to denounce the church for being nothing but a big mouth with those hands and feet being amputated (for the last 50 years.

Which is it?

"The Bible calls the church the body of Christ. And, in my opinion, for about the last 50 years at least, the, the legs and the arms, and the hands, and the feet of the body of Christ have been amputated, and all that's left was a big mouth. We're better known at, at speaking than doing. And usually we're known more for what we're against than what we're for. "                                                                                                                                                                       

Interview With Rick Warren, Prayer in America, the Duncan Group. 2007

"Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?"  James 3:11