Is popular author and preacher Rick Warren causing strife within evangelical churches?
www.abcnews.go.com Pastor’s Unconventional Approach Inspires Some, Alienates Others By MARTIN BASHIR and DEBORAH APTON [Video related to this story was published at this location. ] March 7, 2007 — Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in California may be the best-known pastor on the planet. His book, “The Purpose Driven Life,” has been translated into 56 languages and has sold 30 million copies. However, the idea behind “purpose driven” is not something Pastor Warren takes credit for creating. “The history of this idea — ‘purpose driven’ — is not something I thought up in the first place,” Warren explains. “There have been hundreds of books throughout history that talked about worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry and evangelism.” But while these five purposes are biblically based, there is no denying that Warren has popularized these purposes around the world. He says he has trained 400,000 pastors worldwide to start purpose-driven churches. But it’s Warren’s untraditional u
