The Purpose Driven Life – Richard Strand



The
Purpose Driven Life:


A
Critique of Messages and Methods



 By Richard H. Strand, Ed.D. 


As a small group member in my first
reading of nine chapters in the book I was very surprised that I could
not find any fault with what I saw.  I knew that the author was a leader
of the Church Growth Movement which I thought was part of the globalist
movement, so I started to dig deeply and compare what the book said with
the King James Bible, and what others have said about his books. 


Acts 17:11 (KJV) calls Bereans “more noble”
than others because they examine teachings in the light of scripture to
see if these things be so. Rick Warren’s teaching does not always
survive a scriptural search for the truth. His messages should always be
checked against a standard Bible translation, especially the King James
Version which comes closest to correctly translating the words of the
original manuscripts.   


All references to what he always calls
“The Bible” are followed by only a footnote number instead of a verse
number. To learn what book and verse number of the Bible he is citing
you must turn to the distant back of the book. And in every case you
have to first look back to see what Day or Chapter in his book you are
reading (which is not shown at the top or bottom of the pages). Then you
must hunt for the correct “Day” in pages near the end of the book, and
then look down the column for the footnote number. It takes as long to
do this for each quotation as it has taken me to write about it. It very
soon becomes impractical to try to identify any source. So you have to
just trust him to be quoting the Bible correctly. Therefore, the format
of this book is not designed for any easy study of the Bible.


With only one set of end notes for the
whole book, any good editor would have told him to have only one
continuous set of footnote numbers
if he
wanted the reader to use them. He apparently wanted everyone to believe
the quotations he carefully selected are what “The Bible” says. His
quotations make his book sound wonderful to unbelievers and also to the
thousands of pastors who have bought it for their congregations. It is
amazing that they have ignored that obvious flaw.


The most common “versions” he uses are
often much different from the King James Version (KJV). He uses 15
“Bibles” and selects the quotations he wants in order to appeal to
non-believers whom he calls “seekers.” However, many of his converts
will not be the kind that God wants because they will not know who God
is and why Jesus came to die; and they will not have repented of their
sins or even asked God to forgive them – unless the pastors who use the
book and the program correct those errors before accepting new believers
into the church.   


The internet (www.Bible.gospelcom.net)
makes it easy for people to find the quotation Warren uses from his many “Bibles” –
including the NAB, New American
Bible, from the Catholic Press.  However one of his versions
is not on that website. 


ANALYSIS OF
THE MESSAGE

In the first Biblical quotation in his
book, Rick Warren says, “The Bible says, “Obsession
with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out
into the open, into a spacious, free life.” p. 18. (Rom.
8:6 The Message).That is
almost the opposite of what the KJV says: “For
to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and
peace.”


How can he say “the Bible” says you
will have a “spacious, free life?” Why did he omit saying that death is
the result of being carnally minded? The New International Version (NIV)
uses the term “sinful” for “carnally minded.”
Carnal
 and sinful
 are much more derogatory terms than ”obsession
with self” and the
death
that results from sin is certainly much more serious than “a “dead end”
of a road. How will Rick Warren’s new “converts” know that they must
stop being sinful or even repent of their sins? At the very beginning of
the book they can look forward to simply enjoying a new “spacious free
life” whatever that might mean to them.


Pastor Warren quotes paraphrases that
deviate greatly from standard translations. Here is another major one
that he uses in his first invitation to the non-believers to “receive
Christ”: “The Bible says, ‘Whoever
accepts and trusts the Son gets in on everything,
life complete and forever.’”
p. 58 (John

3:36 The Message”).
That is misleading because it implies all sorts of wrong things. Who
wouldn’t want to accept Christ, if that is what it will do for him?
 


Here is the KJV translation of that
scripture: “He
that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth
not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”
Pastor Warren’s quotation changes
everlasting life
into gets in
on everything, life complete and forever, and he then
omits mention of God’s
wrath.
His is a Positive Thinking paraphrase-littered message, obviously
designed to appeal to nonbelievers.  


The only mention of God’s
wrath
is much later, on page 232, where he cites only the following underlined
half of Romans 2:8 in the New Living Translation: “But
he will pour out his anger and wrath on those who live for themselves,
(He then omitted “who refuse to obey the truth and practice evil deeds”
which are in that same translation.) He omits the details about sinful
or evil behavior and never says what God will do about it. The KJV
sentence continues from verse 8 into 9 explaining what God will do:
 8 “But unto them that are
contentious
[This does not say
live for themselves.]
and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [God will bring]
indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every
soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also
of the Gentile.” Following his skimpy quotation about it, Warren then
implies that believers will not really experience God’s “anger and
wrath” because their only punishment will be the loss of some eternal
rewards.


Now read his invitation to receive
Christ (p. 58) and see what all is missing. It is missing the whole idea
that Christ had to die
because
of the unbelievers’ sins, and that the only way God could forgive them
was through a blood sacrifice.
Warren does not ask his invitees to repent of their sins, nor even to
ask God to forgive them. He simply says, “Receive his forgiveness for
your sins.” So he minimizes the purpose of Christ’s death and the need
to acknowledge one’s sinfulness as the cause of it. And his whole book
omits the eternal damnation and punishment that one is saved from.
I do not believe that a convert who does not know those things would be
very thankful to Christ.


Nowhere in the book did I find Pastor
Warren telling people to repent of their sins. Warren’s Purpose #3, “You Were Created
to Become like Christ,” is full of great ideas to grow to ultimately to
have the character of Christ. However, none of his key verses at the
beginning or end of those chapters, ever talks about sin. They always
relate to simply avoiding temptation or enduring testing. The book does
not mention man’s sinfulness and great need for repentance. Christ died
for people who would “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
That was the purpose of John the Baptist’s ministry and Jesus often said
the identical words. (Matt. 4:17) Rick Warren uses the word
repentance
(p. 182) but says it means only “changing one’s mind,” instead of
remorse, regret, sorrow for one’s sins, penitence, or confession and
apology to God, which is what Bible means. His use of the word is in the
section on sanctification,
not salvation. I think
that in many places in the book he forgets that his audience includes
unbelievers who need salvation. He also often calls the mixed small
groups part of the Body of Christ.


Doesn’t his omission of repentance as a
precursor to remission of sins make Warren’s teaching false?  Luke 24:46-7
tells us: “Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and
to rise from the dead the third day: And that
repentance and remission of sins should
be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at
Jerusalem.” (KJV)


Pastor Warren says, “Jesus
gave up everything so you could have everything.” p. 113. (2
Cor 5:21 TEV) To “have everything” could imply to an unbeliever that He
gave his life for you so you could see all your desires fulfilled. That
is probably not what Pastor Warren personally believes, but that is what
he implies at this point in the book. This has little or no reference to
what the Bible really says.


Actually, that verse in the KJV

says:”For
he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be
made the righteousness of God in him...”
 So,
here “The Bible” does
not
say, “I can have everything.”
It says you can have your sins forgiven and then have the ability to be
righteous like Christ. That is not as exciting to a nonbeliever as
saying “you
could have everything.”  


It is ironic that there is a verse
Warren could have used that would say almost what he wanted to say, but
he did not find it. Rom. 8:32
(KJV) says, “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how shall he not with him also
freely give us all things.” So, in this case Warren’s
torturing of the Scriptures is not so much of an exaggeration, but
merely a wrong interpretation of that particular verse.


The whole book portrays God as only the
modern “God of love” who just gives good things to people, one of which
is automatic forgiveness. Reverend Warren typically omits mention of any
verse or any part of a verse that talks about unrighteousness, sin, the
death penalty, disobedience to God’s commandments, or any specific
consequences of sin in life.
Warren’s God is not a God who hates sin. People who come to Christ with
such a wrong view of God will not be worshipping the God of the Bible,
but rather man-made ideas of God and his only begotten son. They will be
worshipping idols.


Pastor Warren’s readers learn that
about the only reason God would keep them out of heaven would be their “rejection”
of Him (p. 37), or their “failure to
give God glory,” which Rick Warren calls “the
root of all sin.” (pp. 54-55.) Here is the closest he comes
to saying God will punish them for anything:
“If
you reject his love, forgiveness, and salvation, you will spend eternity
apart from God forever.”
p. 37.
 God apparently will not punish people for disobedience to
Him, which the Apostle John says is the definition of sin.
“Sin
is the transgression of the law.”
(1 John 3:4) 


The PDL makes loving and pleasing God a
major purpose of our life, but it does not tell us that to love God
means to keep his commandments. (1 John 5:3, KJV):
“For
this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his
commandments are not grievous.”


The main reason he gives for us doing
the things God wants us to do is simply to give Him pleasure. He cites 2
Cor. 5:9 out of its important context by not including verse 10, and the
quotation then mistranslates the meaning of the words, saying, “This was
Paul’s life goal: ‘More than
anything else, however, we want to
please him, whether in our home here or there.’”
p. 76. (NIT) Contrariwise, the KJV says, 9
“ Wherefore
we labour, that, whether present or absent,
we may be accepted of him. 10For
we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one
may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done,
whether it be good or bad.”
Looking forward to the judgment is certainly a far cry from simply
wanting to bring God pleasure! It is more like wanting to
appease
God, rather than to
please
Him.


Rick Warren’s message does nothing to
make a believer fear the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom. (Psalm
111:10, KJV):  “The fear of
the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they
that do his commandments: his praise endureth
forever. In other words, the fear of the Lord motivates one to keep
His commandments. Warren does
not want to scare people by talking about either God’s punishment or
God’s commandments. He mentions hell a couple of times, in passing, but
with no mention of hell’s fire or what the Bible describes.  He avoids
talking about bad things that he wants you to think
his
loving God would never do! His God is not mine. My God destroyed tribes
and nations that did things that he hates.


Warren
says that the need to fear God ended when the veil of the temple was
rent from top to bottom, and we could all become “friends with God.” p.
86. This is not true. Paul exhorts us in
2 Cor. 7:1 “Having therefore these promises, dearly
beloved, let us cleanse ourselves
from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the
fear of God.” Here again, the fear of God is the motivating
power to help us cleanse our self.”


Yes Christ’s death
reconciles
believers to God, but being a believer does not mean that the path to
heaven is no longer straight and narrow. If the
eternal security
of the believer is true, it is only for people who do not
backslide and abandon their faith. As H.A. Ironside said, those people
were not “true Christians” or born again believers in the first place
and he knew there were a lot of people in that category. The Apostle
Paul and most of the other writers were clear about that also. They
continually exhorted people to keep from sinning, avoiding it at all
cost, enduring until the end, or running the race to finally receive the
prize. The Apostle Paul clearly expressed fear that he might, after
preaching to others, fail to put into practice what he was teaching.   


“Let us hear the conclusion of the
whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole
duty of man.” Those are Solomon’s words in Ecclesiastes 12:13.  Neither
of those ideas is found in the PDL. If this is the whole duty of man,
should this not be one of God’s purposes for your life? Not to Rick
Warren, because he does not talk about any duty!


So the first part of his book implies
that you will experience a wonderful life in which everything you ever
wanted will be yours. That sales’ pitch brings thousands into churches –
especially those who, as the Bible predicts, “cannot endure sound
doctrine.” (2 Tim. 4:3.)


This book leads people to believe that
everyone’s sins are forgiven and no one needs to hear about sin anymore.
I can find no mention of iniquity, unrighteousness, evil, wickedness, or
disobedience to the commandments. Sin is just a word he uses to show the
readers he knows about it. The only sins Warren thinks are important are
being divisive, having conflict with others, or considering one’s own
needs above the needs of the group – in other words,
self-centeredness.


Self-centeredness,
otherwise known as separateness,
is the only attitude that the World Health Organization wants to
eliminate. That thinking must be replaced by collective thinking, which
later will be transformed to loyalty to the one-world “State.”  This is
the ultimate purpose of the whole new people-management system in all
its applications. Now the Purpose Driven
Life and the whole Church Growth Movement are part of this
sinister movement. It was developed by humanists and occultists, but has
now acquired religious trappings, and Rick Warren is peppering it with
Biblical quotations that can be stretched to imply that this is what God
means by loving your brothers and your enemies. His books and his whole
group process are aimed at subconsciously accomplishing that purpose –
not to get rid of personal sin or selfishness, but to get thousands of
people ready to support the New World Order and even go on missions to
help its cause.


Being sinful is not wrong in the eyes
of the Mental Health gurus of the U.N. In fact, sin is being used to
create the chaos they need to bring about total surveillance of peoples’
lives. So Rick Warren’s theology fits in beautifully with the
globalists’ plans. He does not discuss sin and he presents God as only a
loving being who simply forgives everybody for everything. This creates
a serious spiritual problem for his readers. Those who choose to live
for God from his small groups are getting an erroneous Biblical message,
but few people seem to be aware of that.


Rick Warren recommends that you grow to
be like Christ for the sole purpose of bringing God pleasure, and the
only reason he gives you for doing that is as a response to his love for
you, rather than for fear of punishment. Sin is disobedience to God’s
commands, and death was (and still is) the penalty for that sin. God
wants people to obey him, but the fear of the promised death penalty was
not enough to keep Adam from disobeying, so how can a person believe
that the mere feeling of thankfulness for God’s mercy will give Adam’s
descendants the necessary motivation?


In this book you are to believe that no
matter what you’ve done, God will forgive you if you simply “receive”
him, and sing songs to praise him – in rock and roll or rap or any other
style of secular music that appeals to you. In future “errors” or
“failures” that you stumble into, instead of repenting and not sinning
any more, just confess them to the subgroup.


Pastor Warren says, “He (God) wants you
to enjoy life, not just endure it” (p. 64) and “The
reason you are able to enjoy pleasure is that God made you in his
image.”
In this part of the book no distinction among pleasures is
made. People are supposed to enjoy “a
spacious free life.” In retrospect, I don’t think he
ever
made any distinction between good and bad pleasures.


The first half of his book smacks of
hedonism. It certainly is humanism. Where does the Bible say anything
about God “enjoying life” so you should do the same because he made you
in his image? Yes, God wants us to have joy, but not the kind of
pleasures that unregenerate man thinks of as joy. 


The whole book implies that we are all
okay in God’s eyes. God loves us just the way we are and the only reason
he wants us to gradually mature to be like Christ is because it will
please him. That theology makes people want to be church members and
call themselves Christians, but it is wrong. The reason God wants you
follow Christ is so that you can become the kind of person who can live
in paradise and have fellowship with God and Christ there. Paradise will be where people all love
each other and are moral saints of God. No one else will be allowed in
that paradise because, if they were, it could not be a paradise where
people do not get hurt by each other.


Adam was cast out of the earthly
paradise God had created for him, because he sinned by doing what God
told him not to do so he could not be allowed to live eternally on
earth. His sin proved that men would keep sinning and hurting each
other. That would destroy the paradise in which God could fellowship
with the inhabitants. 


People need to be told that God cannot
abide sin and people must try to stop it and let God know that they do
not want to disobey him anymore. However, even though its pleasure is
momentary, sin is so much fun that they will only stop it if they
realize that not doing so will destroy their hope for eternal life in
heaven and may even punish them in hell with Satan and his fallen
angels.   


I wonder if Rick Warren is a born again
believer. In “What Makes God Smile,” pp. 70-84, he talks about being
surrendered to God, but he never explains the importance of the new
birth. He assumes that all who call themselves Christian are born again
(p. 35). On page 182 he says people should  simply “change their mind”
about some of their behavior – which he says is
repentance.
They evidently do not need a new birth or God’s help to be saved or even
to become sanctified. Joseph Chambers said in the first page of his
hard-hitting internet article, “The Purpose Driven Life”: A Modern Day
Golden Calf“– “it teaches contemplative religion, not experiential new
birth salvation.”
[2] 


Getting a new life does not come
without being willing to give up the old one. God does not force anyone
to abandon it, but he wants you to realize that you need and want to
stop sinning. In my opinion the people who come to Christ through the
PDL’s ministry will not even come close to
repenting, unless they had previously learned of it through someone
else. So I do not believe they will be born again. Christ told
Nicodemus, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
except a man be born again, he cannot
see the

kingdom of God.”
(John 3:3, KJV)


One of his Verses to Remember: 
“Surrender
your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes.”
p. 84, Romans 6:13b
(TEV). This sounds like what God wants. Because of many statements that
sound fine like this one, thousands of pastors have made this book the
best seller for two years. That is good Biblical advice to believers.
But it is not
good enough to tell nonbelievers,
because they will not know what it means. What does “for righteous
purposes” mean to them?


The KJV of that same verse, Rom 6:13, actually says: “Neither
yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but
yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and
your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.” The
part of the verse that Warren omitted describes what it means to
“surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes.”
Again repeating what I have said, Pastor Warren avoids mentioning
unrighteousness consistently and predictably. You are not taught that
“righteous purposes” includes the idea of not being unrighteous anymore.
That is why I said unbelievers will not know “what righteous purposes”
means. They are left to decide for themselves, or let the pastor decide
what he wants them to do for his church. I do not believe that Pastor
Warren thinks it is wrong to be unrighteous “for righteous purposes.” As
an example, is it right to make Scripture imply things it doesn’t say in
order to convince people to join the church?


This is why Pastor Rick appeals to
“seekers” and brings thousands into churches. He appeals to their
“itching ears” (2 Tim. 4:3) because they are not required to do anything
different to live their new “Christian” life. “For
the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after
their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having
itching ears.”
 He
appeals to their human desires or “felt needs” in order to “grow” the
church. This is his marketing device or technique that he learned from
humanistic experts and that he is now teaching to myriads of pastors in
his seminars and books. Does that not qualify Pastor Rick as one of the
false teachers that we are repeatedly warned about?


Before talking about his plans to
change the world by means of small groups he is essentially creating in
thousands of churches, here is one more example of
The Message cited at the end
of his book, on page 319, to contrast with the KJV.  As we imagine we
are standing before the throne of God, “Together we will say, “Worthy,
O master! yes, our God! take the glory! the honor! the power1 You
created it all; It was created because you wanted it!” (Rev.
4:11, The Message). The KJV says, “Thou
art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast
created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”
I cannot see why Eugene Peterson’s flowery, exclamatory writing is
better than the standard translations of the Bible.


Revelation says, “If
any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the
plagues that are written in this book.” (Rev. 22:18)
Warren was citing Revelation.
Most
paraphrased versions of the Bible are just adding a lot of humanistic
ideas to it that are not in the original manuscripts. So they are no
longer “God’s word” and should not be called “The Bible,” which Rick
Warren always does.

 


THE MISUSE
OF SMALL GROUP “BIBLE STUDIES”


In
Days 16 through 19 he virtually equates the Body of Christ
with the small groups of a formal local church. These small groups are
the foundation of the church growth movement. They are the means of
inviting unsaved persons for fellowship meetings and learning the Bible
“truths” by thinking together, with or without the help of a group
leader who is called a facilitator.
I put quotes around “truths” because the way the groups are supposed to
be used makes that word questionable. The purpose is to see that the
group members come to agree with the ideas everyone is supposed to
understand from the book or the videos. They study and dialogue about
what the lessons say.


Pastor Warren says, “I
cannot overstate the value of being a part of a small Bible study group.
We always learn from others truths
we would never learn on our own. Other people will help you see insights
you would miss and help you apply God’s truth in a practical way.”
p. 191.


Rick Warren’s most significant and
comprehensive guideline for small group members is, “Relationships
must have priority in your life ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE.”
(Emphasis is mine.) p. 124. This is a purely humanistic viewpoint, with
no basis in Scripture. Warren
has a reason for making the building of relationships the primary
purpose of his whole book. I will explain it as we continue. As
Christians our highest priority is to love, trust, and obey God and our
second one is to love our neighbor as our selves. It is not to make
relationships our highest priority. 


Here are some reasons why

Warren’s relationship priority, which includes
relationship with God, should not be our priority. (1) Nothing is as
important as seeking, knowing, loving and obeying God; (2) God must be
much more than an honored member in our group of relationships; (3)
loving our neighbor and our brothers is not synonymous with maintaining
a close relationship in any small group, because Christian love is not
always reciprocated; and (4) Christ came to break up relationships whose
members were unequally yoked because of spiritual differences. “For I am
come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter
against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.”

(Matt. 10:35, KJV)  Building or maintaining such
relationships is certainly not God’s priority for us.


Prioritizing relationship in the study
of the Bible and then making group dialogue the method of finalizing
meaning for the group, as Warren
does, is supposed to make people choose an interpretation that people
agree upon in order to maintain harmony in the group. And that is only a
small part of the damage it can do – which will be explained in more
detail later.


 Warren’s
small groups are supposed to be diverse, containing some unbelievers who
have been invited for “fellowship.” Then he asks them to learn to show
love, honor and respect to each other and become bound together closely
and intimately by sharing all their feelings, confessing to each other
to be accountable to them. He strongly recommends that they even agree
to a group covenant. He says they need to be committed and dependent on
each other. Collectively, all these subgroups will be the church body.
Throughout the book he implies that this is “The Body of Christ” even
though many of the members have not accepted Christ.


Having a group with diverse opinions
and telling them to be bound together and stay that way makes it
possible to foster creative tension that leads to compromising one’s
position in regard to whatever problem or study is being tackled. Those
are certainly not Biblical principles.


It is not Biblical to be unequally
yoked together with nonbelievers and people who are unregenerate sinners
for any reason whatsoever. I am sure the pastors all know about many
verses that say that. Paul tells us we should avoid and cut off
association even with Christian brothers: “But
now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is
called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a
railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.”
(1 Cor 5:11 KJV) Paul would
surely disapprove of forming intimate fellowship relationships with
unbelievers.           


The verse most people quote on this
subject is 2 Cor 6:14 (KJV). “Be
ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what
fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion
hath light with darkness?” We should
not
make any unnecessary covenant or contract with worldly people. So Pastor
Warren’s recommendation of a small group covenant is anathema.


In support of his small group method of
teaching and learning, Pastor Warren uses faulty arguments. He
incorrectly states, “The Bible knows nothing of solitary saints or
spiritual hermits isolated from other believers and deprived of
fellowship.” p. 130.  The implication is that one cannot really be a
Christian alone, but you need group input. John the Baptist was
certainly one example that disproves Warren’s statement and its implication,
and there have been many other lonely prophets and many great individual
Christian missionaries then and now. The apostle Paul had fellowship
with people like his jailors after he converted them, but he was not a
member of any small group like Warren is recommending.  


Another of his arguments is, ”The Body
of Christ, like your own body is really a collection of small cells. The
life of the Body of Christ, like your body, is contained in the cells.
For this reason, every Christian
needs to be involved in a small group (a “cell”) within their
church.” p. 139. That is a flawed analogy and an improper conclusion.
The Body of Christ really is a widely dispersed group of individuals
that God is calling out from every part of the world. A cell in the body
of Christ is certainly not a group of believers and unbelievers that are
supposed to commit to each other by a covenant and try to have real
“fellowship.”


His most gently stated and seemingly
most valid arguments are that a small group helps us learn the
Scriptures better by the sharing of insights from group members and then
by becoming an accountability group to help us memorize and apply them
 The flaw in that argument is that his groups are supposed to be diverse
in their understandings and more interested in the group understanding
of the scriptures than of their individual opinions, and no one is
supposed to believe that the Bible itself is where the final answers
should come from. This is the dangerous idea that is the core principle
of transformational Marxism and of the Church Growth Movement..          


He does not explain those guidelines
succinctly because people are not supposed to become aware of how their
thought is being transformed or they would not participate. He presents
all those ideas little by little in his text.


The procedure Warren describes is for groups that he
hopes will be semi-permanent or permanent. It will not have a very large
impact on all the people in “The Forty Days of Purpose” – for which I
thank the Lord! But there are grave dangers for its use in the long-term
“little communities” that he wants the churches to create.


Pastor Warren’s meaning of good group
relationships is to express tolerance with everyone’s viewpoints, work
to come to agreement without quarrelling, and being accountable to the
group for abiding by their decisions in order to bring unity to the
church and loyalty to the pastor.


He says,
“In real fellowship people experience
authenticity.” He then describes group sessions of sharing
“hurts”, “feelings,” “failures,” and “doubts.”  p. 139. Then on page 140
he says, “Make this your common practice: 
Confess your sins to each other
and pray for each other so that you can
live together whole and
healed.”


The KJV says, in James 5:16: “Confess
your faults one to another,
and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The
effectual fervent prayer of
a (one)
righteous man availeth much.” But it certainly does
not tell us to make a common
practice of confessing our sins on a regular basis to a group of people
– some of whom will not keep confidences even if they make a covenant
about it; and if the group has a professional facilitator he is bound to
not
keep some of those confidences. In schools and communities already, each
individual’s growth toward collective thinking and support of world
government goals is being systematically (without their knowledge) put
into a digital data base by the mental health program of the

United States.[3]


That whole small group management
system comes from humanistic social psychology and from the United
Nations’ mental health program, not from Scripture. And the group
confession idea comes from Hitler’s and Communist dictatorships as the
means of finding out who the government wants to eliminate. Pastor
Warren does not ask converts to even confess to God and ask for His
forgiveness; he tells them only to confess to the group! This small
group procedure is the brainwashing technique used in Communist prisons
and concentration camps. The group leaders or facilitators keep track of
the social development of the group members in regard to their ability
to think collectively and be loyal to the group.


“Healing” people in the way we think of
healing is not the main purpose of this small group process in churches.
One of the expressed purposes is to keep unity in the groups and the
churches. A partially hidden purpose is to gradually change the meaning
of Biblical truths to accord with modern liberal theology. But the
top-secret purpose is to replace independent thinking with collective
thinking and a new world view. This is the United Nations’ meaning of
mental health
that is being used everywhere in the world today.


The small group procedure is
transformational Marxism and is being used in every part of American
society. Its other legitimate name is brainwashing, which some of its
leaders use when talking to each other. In churches it will take longer
than “40 Weeks of Purpose” to brainwash any group, but eventually that
goal will be attained for many people. They will then be able to survive
as “Christians” in the New World
while traditional Christians (who were not successfully brainwashed) are
being killed. The “purpose-driven” believers will have learned to not be
divisive or dissident in the collective communities of the future. Their
experience in the small groups will have “healed” them mentally by
removing their “insane” notions of individualism, isolationism, or
separatism that they learned from their horrible parents and churches.


Warren’s
system of group management is based upon Drucker’s corporate
communitarian model. This is the model used in Al Gore’s reinvented
government that is combining representatives of government agencies,
private partnerships, and community groups and implementing the laws and
policies of the United Nations without any approval of Congress. As with
every part of the world government movement, the populace is almost
totally unaware of how seditious this is and how rapidly it is
happening.


If pastors are involved in the Church
Growth Movement already, they can easily change the group dynamics back
to the paradigm of traditional Bible study and fellowship. Then the
members will be digging deeply into the Bible as the goal instead of
comparing what everyone thinks about it. They can keep the groups but
abandon the methodology designed by change agents for reinvented
business management, government, schools, and churches.


Warren
emphasizes “You were created for
community.” p. 143. He keeps calling the small groups a
“community” like any good collectivist communitarian who subscribes to
M. Scott Peck’s thesis that “In and through the community lies the
salvation of the world. Nothing is more important.”[4]


Rick Warren previously said that we
were created for God – which
is
true. It is also true that all believers constitute the Body of Christ.
But the Body of Christ is
not
composed of mixed fellowships of believers and non-believers placed into
so-called “communities” to which they are accountable for discovering
and accomplishing “God’s” purposes for their lives.


That is Rick Warren’s concept of the
“cells” in the Body of Christ that he is creating in churches. This
world-changing program recommends “cells” in all communities,
organizations, and religions. Of course they will not be “in the Body of
Christ.” They were first applied in corporate business organizations. By
simply changing Gods, the PDL is readily adaptable to any religion or
organization. In all these cells
relationship is the
first priority; then some purpose or purposes (or vision) becomes the
second guiding principal in one’s life. That is where the
whole “Purpose-Driven” concept originated. The purpose or vision of
Warren’s church groups is to
accomplish God’s supposed purposes for their lives.


Citing James 3:18 (The Message), Warren
says, “You can develop a healthy,
robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if
you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each
other with dignity and honor.” p. 145 How different that is
from James 3:18 in the KJV: “And the
fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.”
The term
healthy, robust
community
is not a good replacement for “them,”
and “peace”
does not require all the social behaviors listed to translate it. Eugene
Peterson added all those ideas to the Bible. And Pastor Warren still
calls that “The Bible” like he does with all 15 versions.  Calling it
the Bible comes either by ignorance
or deception, because Peterson’s paraphrase is certainly not God’s Word.


Peterson’s term “healthy, robust
community” stems from the mental health program of UNESCO which began in
1946. People who are not used to thinking collectively usually apply the
word healthy
to individuals. So now you can guess where the author of
The Message
stands. That is the Biblical “version” Warren uses 90 times in the PDL.  


The National Mental Health Services
refers to books and articles on
Healthy Cities, Healthy Communities, Healthy Families, Healthy People,
and Healthy Start. Now there is one on Healthy Churches written by
people in the Leadership Network of the Church Growth Movement and
recommended by Rick Warren.  


After
Warren urges people to
“make a group
COVENANT[5]
that includes the nine characteristics of biblical fellowship”
(p. 151), he then says, “this means
GIVING UP OUR INDEPENDENCE to become
INTERDEPENDENT.” He does not
cite any Biblical reference for such a covenant, nor for the nine
characteristics for creating interdependence among people. This is his
agenda and that of the U.N.                                                                                                                   


He wants groups to “Emphasize
reconciliation, without resolution.” Please think about that!
He says, “Reconciliation focuses
on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem.”
p. 158. What does that mean in a Bible study? He has made a very clever
new interpretation of the Biblical command to
love one another.
It now means to give up one’s independence and voluntarily become
dependent upon others in regard to the meaning of the Bible, the
solution of any problem, and how to decide what is right and wrong! That
is the goal of the New World Order for people, namely, to give up
individual and national sovereignty in favor of dependence on what the
new world government community decides is right. Its purpose is peace
through reconciliation. 


In a Bible Study this could mean the
abandonment of truth. But Warren
has said that your first priority in
life is relationship building so you are now ready to believe
that this includes compromising and
sacrificing your principles or former beliefs if necessary.
Putting aside differences for the sake of relationship is the
“Synthesis” phase of the mind transformation process that Warren’s use
of small groups is designed to accomplish.


The new way of learning everything
today is to substitute group or majority opinion or imagination for
fact, because the humanistic relativists who designed the educational
programs do not think there is any objective truth. I would warn a small
group member to not let Hegelian dialogues (group thinking with or even
without a trained “facilitator”) determine the truth and change your
process of thinking to one of
DEPENDENCE upon the group or upon the teaching leader. Do not
let “group think” or “CONSENSUS”
change the meaning of God’s word, or change the way that you learn the
truth. People should study the Bible (especially the KJV) themselves and
test any teaching by their own reading of the Scriptures.


This small group process of arriving at
consensus (reconciliation) is the method used in making all U.N.
decisions and now most community decisions in our country – which have
really been made in advance by the leaders. I hope that not many pastors
will use any of those parts of the small group program

that are based upon


Drucker’s corporate model and the process of
DIALOGUE, which is based on
Georg (sic) Hegel’s dialectical process of
“creative thinking.”


Instead of learning what God wants
people to know or do, it
creates
meanings that appeal to the group. And this happens even without the
need of a facilitator!


The Russian, German, Chinese and
American experiments in and since World War II have produced that
“management system.” A mind transforming “DIALOGUE”
joins people together with DIVERSE
views and they are given some
COMMON PURPOSE. They agree to
follow ground rules that say they must do more than tolerate diverse
opinions. They must accept, respect and even celebrate everyone’s ideas
as valid up to the present time while at the same time realizing that
their disagreement is creating a
CRISIS. After opposing views (THESIS
AND ANTITHESIS) are tentatively presented (as gentle opinions
rather than truths), COMPROMISING
must occur and students must consent to a new “CONSENSUS”
or SYNTHESIS in order to
keep harmony (UNITY) in
the group. That new agreement will stand as final until a new antithesis
appears or is presented to them by change agents. That is how everyone’s
thinking is transformed so that change, or the “evolution” of ideas, can
occur. The process is led by teachers, consultants, or facilitators, who
are change agents, so that the new consensus is probably what they had
in mind all the time. If their consensus does not result, they point out
that the new consensus will create a crisis so further dialogue is
required.


Therefore, in the
Purpose Driven Life,
“getting along” in groups really means to express loving
tolerance and respect for everyone’s viewpoints on the meaning of the
quotations, work to come to agreement without quarrelling, and finally
be at peace with the conclusion and move on to the next week’s study.
This creates a feeling of satisfaction and unity in the small “COMMUNITY”
and in the larger church.
It also inspires members to want to continue meeting in the
group. The only thing that is missing in this “Bible Study” is an actual
study of the Bible and learning the truths or facts that are found
there.


This is UNESCO’S “educational” process
that is being used in education, the work place, and most community
groups and legislative bodies in the
United States.
Collective thinking is the goal, regardless of the method, and the only
facts presented in textbooks, workbooks and tests are those that subtly
belittle or malign America government and history and support the need
for a change to world-government. Berit Kjos has written much and made
many speeches about this evil process, which in one generation is
expected to turn the school children of any country into good conforming
citizens of the New World of the 21st Century. Our school
children are almost there under Goals 2000, the School to Work program
and the Mental Health program of the United States’ Departments of
Health, Education and Labor. All those programs follow guidelines and
report results to the President’s Commission on Sustainable Development.[6]


Now the same process is being used in
thousands of churches, so they can lead the way in bringing in the New
World Order at home and abroad. Most of our citizens will accept it
without even “making waves” after everyone’s guns have been taken away.
All “divisive” dissidents in the programs will be put in low paying jobs
or liquidated. They will be known through their school, workplace, and
church “social assessment” records, which are being digitalized as I
write.


After telling you that
“You were made for a mission,”
p. 281, Warren tells you to
think like a “World-Class Christian.”
p. 299. A very important part of his program for the reader is to
“Shift from local
thinking to global thinking.” p. 300. Here he is clearly
not just talking about the church as a missionary agency, but about the
INTERDEPENDENT WORLD COMMUNITY. 


He talks about the
largest multinational media and business conglomerates doing
great things for us. Since the world is becoming interdependent, he
wants to develop interdependence in the small groups and have them think
like “World-Class Christians.” “We
are more connected than we realize.” p.300.
“These are exciting days to be alive.”


Yes, but many of us think that we are
seeing prophecy fulfilled and our future will be tumultuous under the
administration of the global government of the coming “interdependent”
world. And the world would not be interdependent if it had not been
deliberately made that way by those multinational corporations that put
monopolies of production and agriculture in far away places (with the
help of government subsidies) so we must now be interdependent.


When the UN accomplishes its purposes
the world will not be interdependent. Everyone will have access to only
what is made and grows in their own small “sustainable” local areas
under a feudal system of local control. I can show you verbatim proof of
that plan in the Sustainable
Development Syllabus
of Dr. Monteith.[7]  


Rick Warren wants all Christians to
learn to think globally. He recommends several ways. First, begin
praying for specific countries. p. 300. Second, read and watch the news
“with Great Commission eyes.” p. 301. Third, “The best way … is to
just get up and go on a short-term mission project to another country.”
p. 301 


He assumes that all persons have some
gift that can help people overseas, which is probably true, in secular
ways. But I say that this should not be a purpose of every Christian’s
life. Rick Warren claims that the Bible says it is God’s Purpose #5 for
all Christians.  


None of his Biblical references for the
fifth purpose convince me. His quotations all relate only to what
Christ, his twelve disciples, or the Apostle Paul did. Pastor Warren
himself created Purpose #5 because his Global Peace Plan is to send
thousands of church subgroups overseas to help end poverty, disease and
poor education.[8]


The world-changing program for churches
was designed by change agents like George Barna, Doug Murren, Arnold
Mitchell, Bob Buford and Peter Drucker, to name a few of the leaders.[9]
They are experts in the psycho-social manipulation of people, otherwise
known as brainwashing. Their work and that of Rick Warren is influencing
thousands of churches here and around the world.


These leaders expect to use the
churches to change the world in order to accomplish the dream of world
government which will be able to enforce peace and the equalization of
the wealth and all the material and social resources of all countries.
Their educational methodology is the one most useful to dictatorships,
which the coming world government will be.


Thousands of small groups will
evidently be used to usher in the New World Order internationally. These
small groups are being trained to have
RELATIONSHIPS and
COMMUNITY building as their
top priority along with a vision of an
INTERDEPENDENT, multicultural
and multilingual WORLD COMMUNITY
that will obey the leaders and live in
PEACE and
SOLIDARITY. (Warren
calls it UNITY, referring
to the unity of believers.) 


These groups must be trained to be more
than TOLERANT of all other
religions and to know (subconsciously) that their own religion is
really only a man-made belief system, like all others. Their belief
system must fit in with all the others in some way. The Rick Warren
forty day program goes far in helping them acquire the kind of “gospel”
that will do that.


Group members must always stay
agreeable. If they later disagree with the leader or pastor and are
called “divisive” they feel unloved and they leave. In one of his
seminars Pastor Warren said many people who are pillars of the church
would not abandon their traditions for the sake of the necessary
compromise and would be “blessed subtractions” from the church. He then
joked that
pillars are what
hold up
church procedure!
                                          


The
PDL has dutifully abandoned
the absolute truth of Scripture and substituted man’s opinions about
what the Bible means. This is done in three ways: (1) by the
author-teacher selecting only parts of Bible passages that he thinks are
important; (2) by using paraphrases when the mere omission of scripture
does not make the points he wants; and (3) by group dialogue to reach
consensus on his meaning by means of workbook questions. Those three
things produce the belief about what “The Bible” says to them. It
becomes a new belief system which is clearly man-made – actually
man-manipulated.


Many graduates of Rick Warren’s “Forty
Days of Purpose” will have unknowingly been learning that the Bible
cannot be taken literally. They will come to distrust a translation such
as the King James, because, as
Warren states, it is not so understandable. Therefore subconsciously
they will no longer believe that the Bible is God’s Holy Word, or that
man must not add to, or subtract from, it. Paraphrases always add a lot,
and Rick Warren subtracts a lot, so those things must be all right. 


The newcomers are well on their way to
believing that truth is relative to the human viewpoints and cultural
backgrounds of the Bible interpreters, including themselves. So the
small groups are having their old traditional belief in absolute values
removed. Even the concept of right and wrong is left open to discussion
because God’s commandments are not emphasized. If the small groups
continue to use the dialogue method of getting meaning out of the
Scriptures they will become thoroughly brainwashed to the collective
thinking method of supposedly discovering truth – which actually makes
them believe lies.


If you think back on this Critique you
will see that the
Purpose Driven Life
trains groups subconsciously according to all the above guidelines for
survival under the coming global government. Even If pastors use the
book without any “facilitators,” or “consensus manipulators,” many
people will still have their thinking process at least partly changed by
Rick Warren in the first six weeks. They are becoming “group
(interdependent) thinkers” and are “thinking globally.”  Like everything
in the book, that way of thinking is assumed to be one of God’s purposes
for them.    


Pastor Warren’s “GLOBAL PEACE PLAN”
explains why he wants thousands of small groups to be missionaries. They
will be the emissaries of the churches, under rigidly trained
facilitators, to train the rest of the world in this new global thinking
process. The following paragraphs present some lengthy quotations from
Warren’s document:


He wants the groups to take part in
“a Spiritual awakening, a Global
Movement, a New Reformation.” His P.E.A.C.E. Plan is
“a strategy to have every small group in
our church, and then tens of thousands of small groups in other
churches, engaged in solving the five biggest problems in the world:
Spiritual Lostness, Lack of Godly Leaders,
Poverty, Disease, and Lack of Education.”


“Spiritual
Lostness” is
an
interesting way of not talking about the Gospel, or Christianity, or
Salvation. The computer does not even recognize the word “lostness.”


He says,
“The way we intend to tackle them [the five “giant” problems]
using the small groups of local churches in large numbers is
revolutionary.” That is correct – and it also means a
revolution in Christian theology. As he said, it is
“a New Reformation.” I do not
say that Rick Warren invented the theology he preaches. He undoubtedly
learned most of it in seminary. 


His book certainly produces a change in
religious doctrine. The message and the music of traditional
Christianity have been changed. God is only a God of love and the music
is patterned after the secular music that people like to listen to.
People who say they believe that the music of the old hymns of the
church are better and more spiritual than the modern popular music are
called racist.  Rick
Warren said, “To insist that all good
music came from

Europe 200 years ago, there’s a name for that – racism.”[10]


The “tens of thousands of small groups”
will be working with our government and many NGO’s (non-governmental
organizations of the United Nations). He says,”
There is only one group large enough to
tackle these global issues – the Christian church in all its local
expressions around the world.”


His necessary cooperation with the
U.N.’s NGO’s tells me that he hopes to make the Christian churches of
every country become leaders in the U.N.’s development of an ecumenical
religion that will accept any belief system, including occult and pagan
religions of all kinds. The only exceptions will be religions that
dogmatically claim to be the only way to truth or that believe that man
was given dominion over nature which the U.N. hates because it lets
people ruin the earth and destroy animals, plants, rivers and rocks. The
U.N. accuses Christianity, Judaism, and Islam for those supposedly earth
destroying ideas.     


The doctrine being preached in the

Purpose
Driven Church
is probably an acceptable form of the “new spirituality” that Mikhail
Gorbachev mentions in the U.N.’s “Earth Charter.” It is far from the
traditional Christian doctrine. I do not know whether Saddleback has
already become an NGO of the U.N., but it may have. 


I know that some of my statements are
difficult to believe. I have studied for five years – mainly from two
hundred speakers on Dr. Stanley
Monteith’s “Radio Liberty” programs on radio and internet. I have over
250 tapes of those programs and much written documentation.


One of the U.N. plans is to reduce the
world population to less than one billion – down from the present six
billion. It is not all genocide. The leaders do not really care who they
kill, unless it is one of them. The U.N.’s environmental spokesmen say
this is to save the earth, but that is a lie.


The real purpose of the globalists is
simply to be able to control the population. They will rule with total
surveillance technology and an iron hand and people will simply be told
where they must live, how they must live, and what work they must do.


I do not know if Rick Warren is
knowledgeable about those plans, which are not really secret. They are
published but not publicized and our news commentators never mention
them. They are written in the U.N. sustainable development agendas –
Agenda 21 and the Biodiversity Treaty and the Assessment Report that
preceded it – where they can be found if someone gives you the page
numbers. I found them in materials from people who analyzed those
documents.[11]


Rick Warren is becoming a world leader
of what we can call the reinvented church[12]

movement that appears to be made to order for the globalists of the 21st
century. Thousands of pastors are cooperating with his plans, attending
his seminars, and buying his books. 



A brief analysis of some ideas
from Rick Warren’s earlier
Purpose Driven Church

(PDC) and Seminars
[13]


Pastor Warren’s worship service at
Saddleback is in no way traditional, as you will see. Since the
following ideas come from other communications by the same author,
expect some redundancy.


“More
people are won to Christ by feeling God’s presence than by all of our
apologetic arguments combined … It is the sense of God’s presence that
melts hearts and explodes mental barriers.” (PDC p. 241)


The KJV certainly disagrees with him
and recommends didactic verbal approaches instead of feelings. Ps 51:13
says, “Then will I teach
transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.”
(KJV)  Rom 10:17 says, “So
then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
(KJV) And Jesus repeatedly says, “He
who has ears, let him hear.”


Christ never said “feel the presence of
God.” That is not something that can be “practiced” either,
a la Brother Lawrence and
Rick Warren. And the jazzy entertainment with loud instruments and drums
like they use in Saddleback is not an appropriate invitation to the Holy
Spirit of God. It creates lots of emotion, but it is more like the
entertainment at the worship of the Golden Calf. 



”The message doesn’t have to be compromised, just understandable.”

(PDC
p. 244).
Reverend Warren then
tells you to change the church environment, including the use of modern
Bible translations and paraphrases. He
uses fifteen different ones – most of the smorgasbord we described. And,
of course, change the music to match the preferences of the desired new
audience of your growing church.


By selecting the versions, verses, and
pieces of verses he wants to use, he certainly does “compromise”
and “change” the message in order to appeal to people’s human
desires and add members to the church. The message in the worship
service is not as important as the small group meetings where the Bible
“teaching” occurs and the members’ thinking processes are collectivized.


The members learn that any human
interpretation of scripture can still be called “The Bible,” and also
that it then has to be reinterpreted in small group dialogues to be
better understood. This will help them learn that all truth is relative
to the situation and the group of people. They will eventually believe
the Bible does not contain any absolute truths or values that are not
subject to reinterpretation. Beliefs need to evolve or change with time.
The groups will come to believe that this collective way of thinking is
the only correct way to learn anything if they stay in this program long
enough.


From the marketing and people-managing
specialists like Peter Drucker and Bob Buford, Rick Warren has learned
to appeal to the unbelievers in three ways: “(1)
treat unbelievers with love and respect, (2) relate the service to their
needs, and (3) share the message in a practical, understandable manner.” 
PDC p. 247.


He calls these his three
”nonnegotiables” for a “seeker service.” In relation to number 3, his
most obvious appeals are his completely informal sanctuary and dress
code and the use of popular music having the same instruments, beat, and
sensuous emotion as secular music they listen to at home. He discovered
those “needs” from a survey of their interests.


From my other readings about the Church
Growth Movement the key words underlined above mean:  (1)
“love and respect”
means to tolerate any person’s belief until it disagrees with the leader
or prior group decisions; (2)
“their needs”
means the felt needs of the seekers so they will stay in your church,
and also the needs you see they have in order for you to transform their
thinking to the group-think method (Hegelian Dialectic and
communitarianism) and  (3)
“practical understandable manner” means to use the modern
translations and paraphrases that teach the interpretation that the
leader thinks they will easily accept – omitting anything that would
frighten them or make them think that God was a disciplinarian or hard
taskmaster.


It is obviously very wrong for a pastor
to tell people that anyone will go to hell if they sin or disobey God’s
commandments. That negative idea must be omitted because it would change
the character of the God you want them to worship. That would frighten
them away from your church.


Church members must be willing to “create
a safe environment for unbelievers at the expense of their own
preferences, traditions, and comfort.” (PDC p. 249)
Sacrificing their “traditions” really means giving up their belief in
absolutes because, to a humanist, all truth is relative to the situation
and, according to Hegel, it needs to be evolved with the help of change
agents.    


Warren
does not say it directly, but the removal of all absolutes is a major
goal of the humanistic transformational method of teaching that the
Purpose Driven Life uses for
the small groups. Every group’s priority is to develop peaceful
relationships with each other, learning to agree or accept what the
group decides is right after being “educated” by the teaching leader or
group facilitator.


That is what transformational Marxists
think is needed to produce unity in all the world’s churches, and peace
and solidarity in the
one-world government. Any later disagreement with leaders will be
removed by eliminating any dissenters – people who Rick Warren calls
“divisive.”
 When they leave the church he calls them “blessed
subtractions.” In the world government many of them will
be permanently eliminated.  


End Notes


1.Robert Klenck’s
Rebuttal to the Purpose Driven Life is on the web at
 www.johnecoleman.org/Bob%20Klenck%20Page.htm

2.Joseph Chambers, “The Purpose
Driven Life”: A Modern Day Golden Calf,” 
www.pawcreek.org/articles/endtimes/The
Purpose Driven …


3.
Berit Kjos, speech for Pro America, Pasadena Chapter, April 1, 2004,
“The U.N. Plan for Your Mental Health: Building Minds for A Global
Village.”

4.

Berit Kjos,
Re-Inventing the
Church, Part 2, p.
4, citing M. Scott Peck’s “Introduction” to
A

Different Drum: Community
Making and Peace.”

www.crossroad.to/articles2/2002/change2.htm


5. Words I capitalize in bold face
from now on are emphasized so the reader will take special note of
them. They are key words or code words in the globalist plans for
the New World.


6. Berit Kjos, speech for Pro America,
Pasadena Chapter, April 1, 2004, work cited.


7.
Radio Liberty’s
Sustainable
Development syllabus quotes extensively from the
United Nations’
Global
Biodiversity Assessment Report with specific page
references from that report. Phone 800-544-8927.

8.

Go to www.saddleback.com/home/todaystory.asp?id=6213 
The three pages explain his purpose for small group missions.


9. Berit Kjos, “Re-Inventing
the Church,” Part 1, p. 3 . www.crossroad.to/articles2/2002/change_agent-1.htm






[X]
Warren on Church Music, www.sunlandneighborhoodchurch.com/articles_view.asp?articleid=13828&solumnid=


10.
Stanley Monteith,
Sustainable
Development Syllabus.
Phone Radio Liberty,  800-544-8927.


11.
Berit Kjos, “Re-inventing the
Church,” Part 1 and Part [www.crossroadto/articles2/2002/change_agent-1.htm]


12.
Several of the examples in these
two pages are from Dr. Klenck’s
Rebuttal (note 1).




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