Warren’s P.E.A.C.E. Plan and UN Goals – Part 2: Equipping Leaders to ‘Lead like Jesus’?

how to train others to be leaders all around the world.
In fact, he was here this week and I’ve asked him to just give a little
video greeting.”
[1]
Audio
tape of Rick Warren
introducing the PEACE Plan and Ken Blanchard to Saddleback Church.

“Lead like Jesus…. Give yourself a hug,
for you deserve it.”[1]

Ken Blanchard

‘s video response to the above
introduction.

“Dear Saddleback Family… don’t miss this first encouraging message in
40 DAYS OF PEACE which begins now!!! …This week I shared part of this
message in New York City where I
spoke at the United Nations, and also to
The Council on Foreign Relations.
I love you and thank God for you! Pastor Rick.”

Group email sent on

September 17, 2005.

“Various churches and denominations claim to
be undergoing ‘transformation.’
This word no longer refers to the humble sanctification of the individual
believer. Rather, it now refers to an orchestrated, systemic and revolutionary
overhaul of the global church, including the ‘transformation’ of cities,
societies, cultures, marketplaces, and more.”[2]
Lynn and Sarah Leslie.

“American Christianity is going through a second reformation,”
wrote Rick Warren back in February 2003. Then he repeated his transformational
theme, which sounds a lot like the “social gospel” with its presumptuous disregard
for God’s unchanging Word:

“The first Reformation clarified what
we believe.
This reformation is all about how we act
and
operate in the world.
It involves the key components of purpose, decentralization, lay mobilization,
use of technology, and continuous learning.
Churches that change are
thriving and growing more effective.
Churches that refuse to change
will miss the reformation, and are
dying.”[3]

Warren’s rousing threat has alarmed many pastors and leaders
around the world. They don’t want to miss the bandwagon to success! So they
join the world’s quest for popular acclaim, positive affirmations, digital data,
and manipulative processes — including the psycho-social strategies pushed by
UNESCO. And they look to Rick Warren rather than God’s Word to show them how
to “act and operate in the world.”

The
first part of this series outlined the key points of Rick Warren’s P.E.A.C.E.
Plan and the UN Millennial Goals. Remember, Pastor Warren is subject to global
guidelines as he functions within the structure of the UN global management system.
But that’s no problem to “America’s pastor.” His “soft” version of
God’s Word,
avoidance of offensive truths, and tolerance for popular culture fit right
in.

So, instead of shunning him as a Christian, globalist leaders court him as a
useful asset. After all, they had already planned to link the world’s churches to their
agenda. They needed a Pied Piper who could draw the masses into the envisioned
global solidarity. Small wonder Warren
was invited to

speak
at the Council

on
Foreign Relations (CFR) on September 12 as well as

to UN leaders at a
UN interfaith prayer breakfast
on September 13.[4] His

P.E.A.C.E. plan is a perfect vehicle for meeting UN goals:

1.
Was Plant churches (the focus of

Part 1), now
changed to:
Promote Reconciliation. The purpose-driven management
system, mentored by

Peter Drucker,

serves UN goal #8: “Develop a global partnership for development.” The two systems
use the same technologies, techniques, psycho-social processes, and monitoring
technology to train and monitor the “human resources” needed for change and
development.
2. Equip servant leaders
(the focus of this article). Today’s leadership training — as you will see
in this series — fits in the world as well as in the church. Church volunteers
are essential to the UN quest for global solidarity.
3. Assist the poor. This
matches UN Goal #1: “Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.”

4.
Care for the sick.

This matches UN Goals
#4: Reduce child mortality, #5: Improve maternal health, and #6. Combat HIV/AIDS,
malaria and other diseases
5. Educate the next generation.

This matches
#2. Achieve universal primary education

Equipping “servant leaders”

In Part 1, you
met

Paul
Kagame,
President of
Rwanda, the target country for the PEACE campaign. Apparently, Rick Warren
had prepared him well for their joint “ministry” in this small, embattled nation
in Africa. The president’s statement to Saddleback church last April

bears repeating, for it outlines the structure for global change: “Rick and I agree,” said Kagame, “that

each partner
the church, the government, and businesses
have a role to play and we are better
together….”[5]

Peter Drucker, Rick Warren’s mentor
and a key architect of his purpose-driven management system, would fully agree
with the three-fold alliance affirmed by President Kagame. According
to the Drucker Foundation (renamed Leader to Leader Institute), the world is already
divided into three sectors: public (government), private (business)
and social (civil society including churches). Since the government sector
lacks the resources needed to establish the envisioned global welfare system,
the work must largely be handled by volunteers from the social sector. And,
as Pastor Warren continues to remind us, only churches (primarily purpose-driven
churches) are organized and equipped to meet the world’s need for servers,
coaches and trainers.

Ponder these three statements
from Drucker’s Leader to Leader Institute. Notice the reference
to the Rockefellers,
who have been funding and founding globalist, transformational and socialist
programs throughout the last century:

“The Leader to Leader Institute
will chart the future path for the social sector to become the
equal partner of business and government in developing responsible leaders,
caring citizens, and a healthy, inclusive society. [This
is where the small groups and dialectic process enter in]

     “The
Foundation will bring the best leadership and management voices from
across the world to people of the world with a focus on providing
social sector organizations with the ideas and tools that enable them to
better serve their customers and communities.

     “Packaging
knowledge and experience into tools for social sector leaders in
critical areas such as: fund development, marketing, volunteer
management, collaboration, self-assessment, innovation,
and measuring results….”[6]

“A Symposium organized
by The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, sponsored by
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund [December 1996]….

    “As government
cuts back social spending, many people expect the social sector to absorb
much of the anticipated need for services…. We are now talking about a
true partnership to build community and produce people who
are needed by healthy businesses and a healthy society.”[7]

Purpose-driven leaders fit right into this system of community
building and human resource development. By emphasizing deeds rather than
doctrine, they avoid conflict with their two partners — government and business.
The fact that President Kagame, Warren’s government partner in Rwanda, works
with the

Clinton Global Initiative as well as with UNESCO
adds secular support (as well as publicity) to their projects.

[8]

According to UN treaties and

declarations,
humans everywhere must be
trained to think collectively (in facilitated

small Groups)
and to follow the ground rules. These include politically correct

tolerance,
feeling-centered —
not fact-based dialogue, and the
all-important authenticity (openly “confessing” assumptions and
feelings so that the group can “correct” and realign them through dialogue
and consensus). Continual assessment will measure progress and
compliance.

Bruce Wilkinson, author of
The Prayer of Jabez and
The Dream Giver

, shares Rick Warren’s vision
for Africa and reliance upon high tech tools for success-driven leaders. In fact,
he offers his services as a “dream coach” who can provide all the strategic
tools needed for success:

“Are you excited about your Dream Journey, but arent sure where to start?
DISC and the Dream Assessment will give you the tools you need to pursue
and achieve your Big Dream.
“To identify your unique personality type, DISC is a simple,
effective tool that has been tested and used by millions of people worldwide.
The short, online assessment helps you understand what motivates you,
your personal strengths and weaknesses, and how you relate to other people….
There is a fee for the assessment…”[9]

Since Mr. Wilkinson depends on high-tech management
tools rather than the Holy Spirit to fulfill his “Big Dream,” one might wonder
about the source of it. Of course, he is not the only celebrated leader relying
on these assessments, which happen to be based
on “the proven psychological
principles found within the works of Carl
Jung and William Marston.”

[10]
Popular management guru and author,

Ken Blanchard, who often provides speaking platforms
for Christian leaders such as

John Maxwell and Rick Warren, describes the
same basic assessments on one of his

websites.

Notice that the
work of the Holy Spirit is not included as a factor in the DISC
self-assessments. It’s
designed to honor man, not God, for human strengths and accomplishments:

“The
Online DISC Profiler is a powerful tool that can help you significantly
improve your work effectiveness. With the unique Self-Assessment and Observer
Assessment, it is designed to give you a comprehensive view of how you interact
with others in everyday situations. The goal is to understand your personal
chemistry in order to enhance your relationships. Once you know your behavioral
style characteristics, it is easy to see

what drives
those around you….”[11]

Ken Blanchard
— P.E.A.C.E. Plan leadership trainer

Do you wonder who will actually train the leaders
for the vast purpose-driven transformation of Rwanda, Africa and the world?

Pastor Warren has
chosen
Ken Blanchard — “one of today’s
most sought-after authors, speakers, and business consultants”
[12]
— to lead the “leaders all around the world.” Co-author of The One Minute
Manager and co-founder of the Center for Faithwalk Leadership, Blanchard
sounds like a Christian: After studying both the theory and practice of leadership
for more than 35 years, I have found that Jesus is the greatest leadership model
of all times, he tells us on a page promoting his

Lead Like Jesus
Celebrations. He continues:

“Lead Like Jesus will equip you, your church,
and your community to experience Jesus in a powerfully different
way — to grow to trust Him as the perfect leader for all time.”[13]

How will Ken Blanchard
equip people to “experience Jesus in a powerfully different way”? Will
he present God’s truth so that people might be convicted of sin and regenerated
through the Holy Spirit?

Apparently not! Speaking
“to about 2,000 leaders during the annual Southeast Christian Church Leadership
Conference” last year, Mr. Blanchard echoed Warren’s philosophy: emphasize

behavior, not beliefs:

“From my standpoint,
at the end of Matthew when [Jesus] says, Go and make disciples, I think
people emphasize the evangelism part of that and forget what discipling
means. Its a follower, somebody who does what I say. As leaders youre
all influencing peoples thinking, beliefs and all. He [Jesus] has a mandate
for us to be servant leaders.

People
ask me if Im interested in evangelism. Im not.
I think the next big evangelism movement
will be driven by behaving differently.”[14]

Since Rebecca Barnes, editor of ChurchCentral.com,
had quoted Blanchard in the above report, “Serving
to lead like Jesus, she
was asked by Bud Press
to verify what she wrote. Ponder Ken’s response to her question:

I spoke with Ken Blanchard and he said
he is not interested in evangelism.
He quoted Ghandi, who said if everybody in the world would act like Jesus
everybody in the world would want to be a Christian.[15]

How then can Mr. Blanchard guide Rick Warren’s
P.E.A.C.E. Plan goal #1: Plant churches? Without evangelism, might those “churches”
be filled with unregenerated members? Would the people even know God’s revealed
truths about Jesus? What kind of spirits might they “experience” if they have
never heard the true gospel (including its “divisive” message of
sin, judgment, redemption
and victory through the cross)?

This radical departure from Jesus’

Great Commission may not surprise those who
know that Mr. Blanchard serves on the
Advisory Board of
The Hoffman Institute (last
checked on 8-26-05).
Other members of the Advisory Board include –

“Joan Borysenko… Former Director of the
Mind/Body Medical Institute at Harvard University… [and] the author
of… Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual Optimism.”

“Margot Anand Larkspur… Founder of Sky
Dancing Tantra International, and author of several internationally
best selling books, including The Art of Sexual Ecstasy, The Art of Sexual
Magic…. She has also had extensive training in Gestalt therapy….”

“Rev. Hal Milton… a Unity Minister…
trained extensively in body therapies, movement education and Rolfing….”

“Claudio Naranjo… one of the early staff members
at Esalen Institute… is a leading international authority on the
enneagram and has authored numerous important books on consciousness
including his recent The End of Patriarchy.”[16]

Occult Spirituality

This

Quadrinity Process was conceived
by “an American psychic”[17] named

Bob
Hoffman. “Renowned for his intuitive capacities, Hoffman was dedicated to awakening people to the awesome
power of
love that dwells within each of us. He believed that unconditional love was the birthright of
every human being.
He wrote that The SPIRITUAL SELF
is the pure non-programmed, non-mediated aspect of self that is…

resonating in harmony with the Universe.“[18]

That sounds decidedly New Age rather than Christian!
Yet Mr. Blanchard himself claims to have benefited from this process. In a
promotional endorsement at
hoffmaninstitute.org, Blanchard gushes, “The Hoffman Process brings
forth spiritual leadership in a person. It made my spirituality come alive.”

An interview with Raz Ingrasci, President of the Hoffman
Institute, sheds more light on his faith in this New Age force:

Ken
Blanchard
(KB):
“People are looking for some higher power to help them…..

RI:
There is also the sense that when one acts in alignment
with a higher power, the action is more likely to lead to both success
and satisfaction….
     KB:
“Right….


RI:
So, people bring spiritual values into their
businesses first by bringing spirituality into their everyday lives….
How does the Hoffman Process help with this?

      KB:
“The Hoffman Process actually brings forth spiritual leadership in a person.
Since taking the Process, my title at our company has become Chief Spiritual
Officer. Now, I’m working on creating a Center for Chief Spiritual Officers.
…

RI:
“In the Process, people shed their false selves to
reveal a

true and loving, noble servant within, which we call your Spiritual
Self….

KB:
“Yes…. The essence is to let this spirit into your heart so you
become a different person from the inside out…. It gave me a way to have my spirituality
be at the center of my life.

RI:
“What
importance do you find that tithing, service, or charitable giving can have
in a person’s business life?
KB: “I think it
is all important, it is about energy.
If all you do is take energy, you’re an energy drainer. Tithing, giving
back, being thankful, sends energy out and you get more energy back.
John Templeton tells
people that the best money practice in the world is to give 10% of what
they earn away.“[19]

I can’t help but
wonder what “spirit” Mr. Blanchard has “let into [his] heart.” Is he totally
blind to the unbiblical nature of the “spirituality…
at the center” of his life? The
Quadrinity Process
is incompatible with Biblical truth! In fact, Jesus died
on the cross to free us from the dark forces that drive the Hoffman
Process. The two are as contrary as night and day!

Yet the celebrated leadership
trainer for Warren’s PEACE Plan seems to believe that the two fit together.
This strange paradox reminds me of a wise statement in
A
Time of Departing by
Ray Yungen:

“Satan is not simply trying to draw people to the dark side of a good
versus evil conflict. Actually, he is trying to eradicate the gap between
himself and God, between good and evil, altogether.”[20]

On the other hand, the Bible tells us, “

Have no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose
them.” Ephesians 5:11

Yet, the fellowship and connections between Blanchard and New Age
spirituality is twined together like a web. One of the

National Board Members
of Blanchard’s

Lead Like Jesus
is Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the
Soul book series.[21]
In an

Interview with The Hoffman Institute,
he like Ken Blanchard, exuded enthusiasm for the Hoffman
Quadrinity Process:

Hoffman Institute: Your books have sold over 60,000,000 copies and you are one of the most
popular speakers in America. From your perspective, what’s going on in our
culture?

Mark: “We’ve
got the most prosperous culture in human history and we’ve also got the
biggest spiritual hole in human history…. To fill that hole you need something like
the Hoffman Process, where you clean up your act and go deep inside to find
out that your core essence really is important, that you do matter, and you
can make a difference…. One of the places I’m encouraging absolutely
everyone to go is The Hoffman Process….”

“…we were number one in the
New York
Times with Chicken Soup for the Sports Fan Soul. All of us have infinite
potential but most of us are self-sabotaging. You need the Hoffman Process
to get out of a lot of your self-sabotaging behaviour.”

“I think the
great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are
the great givers. I can pick hundreds of role models, but I’ll pick
three – Nelson Mandela has just given to a whole country. Mahatma Gandhi
(and Mahatma of course means Great Spirit) was riddled through to the
end with lots of pain, and he strove to unify and free a
subcontinent….”

“As our mutual friend Dr
Ken Blanchard… said ‘Feedback is
the breakfast of champions.’ Everyone needs feedback and most of us don’t
like it…. You have to replenish
yourself individually, and we have to do it collectively, and then we have
to replenish the planet.”

Hoffman Institute:
“So tell me, Mark, is the Hoffman Quadrinity Process Chicken Soup for the
Soul?”

Mark: “The Hoffman Quadrinity Process
is a Banquet for the Soul!”[22]

Lead Like Jesus’ list of

Board Members also includes Rick Warren,
Bob Buford,
John
Maxwell, Steve Douglass [President of

Campus Crusade for Christ], Bill Hybels [Willow Creek], and
Laurie
Beth Jones, author of Jesus in Blue Jeans and Jesus CEO: Using
Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership. In the latter book, she wrote:

“For me to refer to God as ‘She’ would unfortunately put this work
beyond the boundaries of acceptance and understanding for too many
people. We must search for an all-inclusive terminology.”

(p. 305).

“Jesus regularly visualized the success of his efforts … Jesus was
full of self-knowledge and self-love. His ‘I am’ statements were what he
became.”

(p. 7, 8)

In his endorsement of

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
by New Ager

Deepak Chopra,
Blanchard wrote, “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success make wonderful
guiding principles for anyone attempting to create a productive and satisfying
life or human organization.” Do they? For a Christian?

“Something big is happening,” wrote Dr. Thomas Hohstadt, who also calls himself
a
devoted Christian.
“…the way we think is changing. And — as a result — the way we believe
is changing. That belief, of course, is not a different ‘Word,’ it’s a different
understanding of the Word. For spirituality is converting to new sympathies.
Faith is transmuting to new sensitivities. And this Spirit-birthed age is

birthing
new spirit!”[23]

Dr. Hohstadt is right
about the transformation — but tragically deceived about God and His Word.
Yet, since his summary gives us a glimpse of today’s “new thinking” and global
reformation, ponder his next points:

“Even church leaders are ‘thinking’ differently.
What was once a ‘subculture’ is now mainstream. What was once embarrassing
is now respectable…. We are co-authors more than bystanders. Our world
is more a ‘Creating’ than a ‘Creation.’… The quantum world promises

we can make the Holy Spirit offers
He can’t refuse.‘… When our decisions
and God’s will mutually move each other, the role of divine action takes
on totally new meaning…. Today, our imagination is being baptized, and
our windows on God’s miraculous presence are reopening.”[23]

Everything seems to be turning upside-down! Is that
what this global “transformation” is all about? Leaders can claim to be a Christians
and speak the Bible’s assuring affirmations — even as they dismiss the reality
of absolute truth in order to follow the latest blend of feel-good spirituality,
self-exalting psychology, New Age affirmations, and pragmatic psychological
strategies.

Back to the Truth

Thank God for His wonderful Word! It brings us back
to reality! It also reminds us that Satan is more than willing to repeat his
tempting tactics age after age, for human nature doesn’t change. But in the
midst of the spiritual battles, our Lord has armed us with His truth and Spirit so
that we may discern deception and walk in His triumph!

“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness
for light, and light for darkness….
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!”
Isaiah 5:20-21

“…the
time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to
their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for
themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth,
and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things…”
2 Timothy 4:2-5

“Now
thanks be to
God who always leads us in triumph in Christ!” 2 Corinthians 2:14

Note:
At the UN

interfaith prayer breakfast
on September 13, Rick Warren
concluded with what seems to be his standard salvation prayer. He had
already told the presidents, ambassadors and other distinguished attendees
that God loved each one and had a purpose for them. But his message excluded
the gospel. He explained neither the obstacle
of sin nor the victory of the cross — the ultimate expression of our
Savior’s love. Then he prayed:

“Father… there are some here today
who have been living the good life, not realizing that there is even a far
better life — a life of purpose…. Forgive us for shallow living thinking
only about temporary things that are on this side of eternity. I pray that
today many will
step across the line to a better life a
life of purpose and power and peace….

“You
might want to pray to God just in your own words. It doesn’t matter what you
say…. He knows your thoughts…. I’ll say something and if it represent
the prayer of your heart, you just say in your mind, ‘Me, too, God.

“Dear
God. Thank you for making me, for creating me, and for loving me. I want to
fulfill the purposes that you made me for. Starting today I want get to know
you and love you and trust you. And I want my life to bring you pleasure.
Thank you for sending Jesus Christ. Help me to understand it more. As much
as I know how I want to open up my life to your love and your purpose. In
your name I pray. Amen.”

[See

Widening
the Gate to the Kingdom]