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Title: Purpose-Driven® Church, The by Rick Warren ISBN: 0-310-20106-3 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 18 September, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (82 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "Buy It, Study It, Highlight It, Share It, and Apply It"
Comment: Rick Warren is considered, in my opinion and among my church planting colleagues, to be one of the fathers of the modern-day church planting movement. If you are a pastor, church planter, church leader, or simply a layperson in your church, this book should be one of your primary textbooks for developing a healthy, growing church. His overarching premise is that the church is healthy only when it is carrying out its designed purpose based on the scripture, more specifically, the Great Commission and the Great Commandment in the New Testament. Rick discusses the importance of creating and embracing a clear vision statement, identifying your core values, and developing strategies to lead the church to accomplish its purpose. Moreover, he stresses the necessity of identifying your unique community, discovering their needs, and strategizing to meet those needs. However, let me warn you that this book could transform the way you DO church and set you free to think outside of the traditional church box. Warren has his critics, but one only has to look at Saddleback Church, the church he planted in 1980, to see that the principles he endorses are true. The church has grown from 1 to 15,000 over the course of two decades and is continuing at a phenomenal rate, but the interesting fact about their growth is that the church is reaching an unchurched society instead of merely adding members from other churches. So, in conclusion, buy it today, study it, highlight it, share it, and apply the principles in the book for a growing healthy church!
Rating: 3
Summary: The success and failure of The Purpose Driven Church
Comment: Rick Warren did a good thing when he wrote The Purpose Driven Church. He says a lot in this nearly 400-page book and asks questions church leaders need to answer.
But The Purpose Driven Church proves that asking the right questions does not necessarily lead to the right answers. While this book has a lot of good things to say about the concept of purpose, it fails in its methodology. Warren's pragmatic ideas regarding church growth, preaching, worship, etc, ignore the spiritual ramifications of what he is writing about. Before churches can truly grow spiritually, their leaders and members must have a change of heart even more than a change of habit, and only God can change hearts. Rick Warren, and indeed every church leader, needs to remember that.
Despite any weaknesses of methodology, The Purpose Driven Church succeeds in pointing church leaders toward having a purpose, as well as giving them some good ideas and a solid framework for implementing one. Every pastor and church leader should read this book thoroughly and thoughtfully.
Rating: 2
Summary: I'm Sure It's Meant To Help, But
Comment: I see alot of churches popping up based off this book and I have even attended. But I've noticed that many are trying to be "pop" churches, some to the effect of making the church seem cheap. And they are all looking more to this book than the actual Bible, which should be the real insperation for church building.
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Title: The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? by Rick Warren ISBN: 0310205719 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Purpose-Driven® Youth Ministry by Doug Fields ISBN: 0310212537 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren ISBN: 0310802016 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Answers To Life's Difficult Questions by Rick Warren, Rick Warren ISBN: 0966089529 Publisher: The Encouraging Word Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: Personal Bible Study Methods by Rick Warren, Rick Warren ISBN: 0966089502 Publisher: The Encouraging Word Pub. Date: 1997 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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