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
Leaders don't do what they WANT to do;they do whatever is necessary.
To become a master communicator: shut your mouth & listen first.
I'd rather live dangerously for Jesus than exist safely for people's approval.
God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.
Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.
To accomplish anything you must first have a mission, a goal, a hope, a vision.
You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.' The Bible is very clear that God has a purpose. But even if I know that purpose, I can't fulfill it if I'm out of shape.
We do not have to make the Bible relevant - it already is! But we do have to show its relevance.
A church will never grow beyond its capacity to meet needs.
The purpose of your life fits into a much larger, cosmic purpose that God has designed for eternity.
God hates loneliness, and community is God's answer to loneliness. When we walk alongside other people, we find a community where we learn how to love.
The Bible isn't meant to just inform us, it is meant to transform us. 40 Days in the Word will teach you how to be not just a hearer of the Word, but a doer of the Word!
Marriage doesn't create problems. It reveals them. You bring unresolved stuff into it.
God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.