Rick Warren
Rick Warren
Richard Duane "Rick" Warrenis an American evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch in Lake Forest, California, that is the eighth-largest church in the United States. He is also a bestselling author of many Christian books, including his guide to church ministry and evangelism, The Purpose Driven Church, which has spawned a series of conferences on Christian ministry and evangelism. He is perhaps best known for the subsequent book...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 January 1954
CitySan Jose, CA
CountryUnited States of America
The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.
Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.
Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.
The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.
Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.
When Jesus started His ministry, the very first thing He did was form a small group.
I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.
As Christians we’re called to belong, not just to believe. We are not meant to live lone-ranger lives; instead, we are to belong to Christ’s family and be members of his body.
In pain, I'd rather walk with Jesus with all of my questions, than walk by myself with all the answers.
Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.
Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.
Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.
This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.
I think vision is highly overrated today. I think what really blesses a ministry is, if you want the power of God in your life, its humility and integrity. I'll take a person who's humble and has integrity over a person who has vision any day. A lot of people have vision just based on ego, but it's in that dependence upon God that we get His vision and develop more trust in Him.