Those Who Resist

Time
magazine has joined the ranks of Christian and secular media
that are reporting on Rick Warren’s new PEACE Coalition. The
article, titled


“Rick Warren Goes Global,”
says that Warren is “perhaps the most important voice in
contemporary American Evangelical Christianity,” and that
Warren is hoping to “take his ‘brand’ [of spirituality] to
the ends of the earth.” Warren told

Time
(who was invited to the by-invitation-only conference) that
this was “the most important conference” of his life, and he
was extending participation in the PEACE Coalition to “the
wider Evangelical community.”

Calling the PEACE Coalition a “plan of epic ambition,”


Time
says Warren hopes to turn tens of millions of Christian
churches “into a giant ‘network of networks'” to fight world
“poverty and misery.” Warren anticipates that the conference
will result in large numbers of churches joining the PEACE
plan and could end up with over 200,000 “PEACE
missionaries.” He hopes this will put his program at the
“forefront of the missionary field.”

The article admits that Warren “offered” the 1700 pastors
and leaders who attended his conference last week “few
details of the plan.” Nevertheless, “the response of the
pastors was enthusiastic.” “I knew they were already on
board,” Warren confidently stated to
Time.
Others who endorsed the Coalition were Billy Graham, George
and Laura Bush, Bono, and John McCain. In addition, Warren
said “he’s already secured personal commitments from
influential leaders in the Salvation Army and the Assemblies
of God.”

According to the article, Warren’s plan will be “extremely
complicated and possibly controversial.” But these areas of
complicity and controversy are not discussed. It states that
“the PEACE program is an attempt to radically re-engineer
Evangelicalism’s huge missionary culture.”

At the conference, Warren explained that this vision of his
could take 50 years, and he hopes to see the “next
generation” bring it to fruition calling them “the
reformation generation.” When
Time
says that “Warren has passed the point of no return,” we are
reminded of Warren’s earlier statements years ago that he
will do “whatever it takes” to bring about what he calls “a
new reformation.”

For those who read the
Time
article and are not familiar with Rick Warren’s previous
statements and teachings, Warren’s reformation may appear to
be a biblically-based reformation, one that represents the
Christian church, caring about the poor and needy. But
Warren has defined this “new reformation” and how he intends
to “re-engineer” the Christian faith. For instance, when
Warren spoke at the Pew Forum on Religion in 2005, he told
the audience that his new Christian reformation would
include those from other faiths (in particularly Muslims).
So when Warren talks about extending his vision to “the
wider Evangelical community,” this is an inaccurate remark
because Warren has intended for that extension to include
people of all faiths, as well as people of no faith and as
well as those practicing homosexuality:

Who’s the man of peace in any village
– or it might be a woman of peace – who has the most
respect, they’re open and they’re influential? They
don’t have to be a Christian. In fact, they could be
a Muslim, but they’re open and they’re influential
and you work with them to attack the five giants.
And that’s going to bring the second Reformation. –
Rick Warren, May 2005,

Pew Forum on Religion 

In an interview in August 2006
with Charlie Rose, Warren stated that we don’t have to have
the same religion or moral beliefs to work with people on
poverty, disease, etc. As an example he said he just met
with the President of the gay-activist group ACT UP, and
asked him, “Eric [Sawyer], how can I help you get your
message out?” Sawyer answered, “Use your moral authority.”
Warren then said to Rose, “I’m working with these guys …
I’m looking for a coalition of civility, which means let’s
get back to the original meaning of tolerance.”

Not only will Warren’s PEACE plan for a new reformation
include Muslims and gays, it will also include those with
New Age propensities. Just this month, Warren hosted a Small
Groups Conference in which New Age sympathizer Leonard Sweet
was a featured speaker. Sweet’s spirituality is unveiled in
his book

Quantum
Spirituality
where he says he resonates wholeheartedly with New Age
mystics (like Matthew Fox and Ken Wilber) and says that we
can help people find their “christ-consciousness” through
small groups. Warren has promoted Leonard Sweet for many
years and clearly continues to do so with virtually no
response or critique from Christian leaders around the
world.

Without question, Warren’s reformation will include
mysticism. He stated that very precisely many years ago in
his first book,

Purpose
Driven Church,
when he said the Spiritual Formation movement (via Richard
Foster) would be a wake up call to the church and will bring
the church to a full maturity. This makes sense given the
fact that Warren’s 20 year plus mentor was

Peter Drucker who had mystical propensities.1

Finally, Warren’s new
reformation will also include the emerging church. Roger
Oakland has documented this fact in his landmark book,



Faith
Undone,
showing Warren’s continued participation and efforts in
helping the emerging church become that next “reformation
generation.”

While Rick Warren continues to receive magnificent support
by the biggest names in both religion and secularism, and
unrelenting media coverage, silent church leaders play their
part in this paradigm shift as well. By refusing to defend
the Christian faith against those who present a non-biblical
plan for peace and reformation, they will share in the
responsibility of the outcome, which is mass delusion and
far too many unsaved souls.

Perhaps it is true, as
Time
magazine states, that Rick Warren has passed the point of no
return. Only the Lord knows that. But it is not too late for
Christian believers to turn back to the pure Gospel of Jesus
Christ and warn a world in darkness that there is no light
in any of these other belief systems. Eternal life comes
only through repenting and accepting Jesus Christ as Savior
and Lord by faith through His grace. A reformation that
unites Islam, emerging spirituality, the New Age, mysticism,
and homosexuality is a reformation that will only lead to
spiritual death. And as the Bible states, our efforts to
save the body (from hunger, poverty, and disease) will be in
vain if the soul is neglected and not born-again.

Let us ask ourselves, would the Apostle Paul form a
coalition and work with the followers of the goddess Isis or
the god Jupiter to improve the lot of the poor and needy and
call it a movement of God! Rather, he admonished: “Wherefore
come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the
Lord, and touch not the unclean thing” (II Corinthians
6:17). While it is right and moral to help the poor and the
sick, trying to establish a godly movement while
incorporating that which is not a part of the kingdom of God
simply cannot be done.

Quotes by Rick Warren

“We come into this Peace Plan
with great humility … We will be like a giant mushroom
expanding and exploding around the world. Whatever it takes,
it will be a holy moment.”-Christian
Examiner,
2005

“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. There is one thing you can do greater than
share Jesus Christ with somebody, and it is help start a
church.”- Sermon from 11/2003 when Rick Warren Announced His
Global Peace Plan to Saddleback.

“Personal computers have
brand names. But inside every pc is an Intel chip and an
operating system, Windows,” Warren says. “The Purpose
Driven paradigm is the Intel chip for the 21st-century
church and the Windows system of the 21st-century
church.”-


Christianity Today,
Oct. 2005 in talking about his global peace plan.

Read the
entire article at Lighthouse Trails:

http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletter050508.htm

See also Kevin Reeves’

Review
of “The Barbarian Way”

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