Rick Warren

As though it were not enough that Rick Warren would vote for New Ager, August Turak, for First Prize of $100,000 in Templeton's Power of Purpose Awards, Rick Warren has now brought New Ager, Ken Blanchard aboard his global P.E.A.C.E. Plan should cause all sorts of alarms to go off for all Canadian Christians.  See:

http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/PressReleasekenblanchard.htm

 

Open Letter to Dr. Matthew Friedeman (Response to his article defending the teachings of Rick Warren)

 

April 22, 2005

 

I heard about your radio show and article you wrote published on Agape Press which defends the teachings of Rick Warren.  In light of the following, I hope you reconsider. 

 

Before I proceed, I would like to comment on your April 21 article.  You mention that "purpose-driven church that wins thousands to Christ."  I think it would be illuminating to ask the question "which Christ" or "which Jesus? or "which Gospel?"   Is this gospel of Christ the same as Rick Warren's mentor, Dr. Robert Schuler whose definition of sin is lack of self-esteem? Do you mean the gospel presented by Rick Warren in his recent Ladies Home Journal column?  In this regard, I humbly invite you to read Paul Proctor's commentary on Rick Warren's March 2005 article in the Ladies Home Journal.  http://www.newswithviews.com/PaulProctor/proctor66.htm.  You also state "Despise him?  Only if you are jealous."  But we shouldn't as Christians despise him even if we were jealous, and I am certainly not jealous, as I fear for him and grieve.  You further state that Rick Warren "is eager to share his secrets".  But there shouldn't be any secrets, as Sola Scriptures reveals EVERYTHING we need for justification and sanctification...there is no closing the gap.  Paul tells us everything is revealed that we presently need to know.  Secrecy is the heart of Mystery Babylon, Mysticism, and Rick Warren's Carl Jung Personality Profiling in his SHAPE Program in which these so-called secrets were revealed to a spirit-guide named Philemon.  And what are some of Warren's other secrets?  His training manual on who to get rid of what he calls "resisters" and "pillars" in the church?  Below is a factual account of the fruit of these so-called secrets.   Are some of Rick Warren's secrets:  "to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan's so-called deep secrets (I will not impose any other burden on you):  Only hold on to what you have until I come"? See  Revelation 2:18-29.  Is one of his secrets to call for churches and small groups to adopt villages where lack of spiritual leadership has kept people from knowing the abundant life God wants for them?  This is not a new idea, nor is it a secret.  The New Testament is saturated with these instructions and the history of the church of full of it.  Christians are not taking "Warren to task for sliding into the abyss of the social gospel" but because his teachings are not Scriptural.  This is what Rick Warren should lose sleep over!  You further state that Rick Warren is "equipping the saints assisting the downtrodden and disenfranchised."  So the the list below of Christians being purpose driven out of their churches are examples of ministering to the downtrodded and disenfranshed?  Is forcing unbiblical convenants on his members...a Pharisee's dream, ministering and equipping the saints?  And where is the place for all of the ousted Christians in Rick Warren's PEACE Plan?

 

 

A few weeks ago, I was a guest on VYC America's Crosstalk discussing my book Who's Driving the Purpose Driven Church? in which callers all over the country were calling in who had been ousted or marginalized in their church for questioning or opposing Purpose Driven Life book and campaign.  One senior saint from Texas called in and was very upset about a recent Baptist Standard newsletter in which an opponent of Rick Warren was severely maligned.  It was indeed very representative of the thousands of calls or emails that VCY America had gotten when Warren Smith was a guest regarding his book Deceived On Purpose.  I have been researching Rick Warren's teachings for several thousand hours and several years.  So, in this regard, I invite you to consider and be apprised of the following updates on the fruit of Rick Warren's teachings and how he has trained pastors and churches to deal with what he calls "resisters"....most of the media and even Christian media gives Rick Warren a free pass on his teachings.

 

The following factual events, are but the tip of the iceberg.  I invite you to consider and be apprised of the following:

 

SPIRITUAL EUTHANASIA

A PARABLE OF THE PURPOSE DRIVEN CHURCH

PURPOSE DRIVEN CHRISTIANITY....A WAY THAT SEEMS RIGHT UNTO MAN, OR WHO'S END IS DESTRUCTION?

"First they came for “resisters” and “pillars” of Brunswick Reformed Church, Brunswick, Ohio

because they opposed Purpose Driven Life and Church, but I didn't speak up because I was not a member of Reformed Church of American (RCA) denomination.

Then they came after a lady who was an elder lady in the faith who had been with the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas since 1956 by shouting her down with spiritual euthanasia and aggressive mean-spirited behavior, and the intimidation of seven attorneys, because she opposed them turning their landmark Criswell Center into a Purpose Driven entertainment center. But I did not speak up because I was not a widow.

Then they held a trial for two families at Valley Baptist Church in Lakeland, Minnesota, but I didn't speak up because I was not a member of the General Baptist Convention. 

Then they came after 165 members of Gardendale Baptist Church, Corpus Christi, Texas and ran them out of the church, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Southern Baptist. 

Then a brother did finally speak up and tried to warn Eugene Christian Fellowship because they had gone Purpose Driven, but they threatened legal action and told him to stop spamming them.  But I did not speak up for fear of being accused of spamming or being sued by a church.

Then a news reporter for a large Christian radio network sounded the alarm on His Holy Hill of this clear and present danger.  They ran the story, but received more gnashing of teeth from callers then they had ever had, so they censored this story from their Agape Press print media news service. 

Then still another brother on another Christian radio ministry broadcast testimonies of Christians thrown out of their churches across the country, but the network threatened to remove his show from the air, if another broadcast was ever made that said anything bad about Rick Warren.  But I did not speak up because I had friends and family who were either employed by an organization that promoted Purpose Driven Church, or were in Purpose Driven Church, and I did not want to lose those relationships.

Then they came after a large group of members at New Hope Church in Bend, Oregon.  But I didn't speak up because I wasn't a member of The Evangelical Church denomination or the National Association of Evangelicals. 

Then they came after a carpenter and his wife at Calvary Community Church in Phoenix, Arizona with the police and a sheriff and escorted him out of the church and off of the grounds for trying to expose the deeds of darkness and the teachings of Rick Warren, telling him that if he returned, he would be arrested.  But I didn't speak up because I wasn't a member of the Calvary Chapel denomination. 

Then they came for me,  and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me, because every church in the nation had become Purpose Driven and part of his Global PEACE Plan."

Compiled and Adapted by James Sundquist

Based on Rev. Martin Neimoeller's Poem below written in 1945

(c)2005 Rock Salt Publishing Used by Permission

"In Germany, the Nazis first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me."

(Rev. Martin Neimoeller, German Lutheran Pastor. Rev. Neimoeller was arrested by the Gestapo for opposing Hitler and was sent to Dachau in 1938. He was freed by Allied forces in 1945.)

“Spiritual Euthanasia” Footnotes:

1. Pastor Dave Hawk, Brunswick Reformed Church, Brunswick, Ohio website: www.b-r-c.org. Incidents occurred with Susan Anderson April-June 2001. Testimony reconfirmed by email from Susan Anderson 3/11/2005.2.

2. Confirmed by the testimony of Betty Erwin on Southwest Radio Church archived broadcast: March 1, 2005, see and hear at: http://www.swrc.com/broadcasts/2005/march.htm and by 11/07, 11/11, 11/24, 2004 and 1/6 2005 letters by Betty Erwin to Mr. & Mrs. Brunson and another former pastor at Dallas First Baptist Church, and telephone interview March 2005.

3. Pastor Rev. Timothy S Magnuson,Valley Baptist Church in Lakeland, Minnesota. Tel 651-436-5278.

Verified by letters from church and the families of Keith Thompson and Charles Thompson.

Centered around October 22, 2002

4. Pastor Micah Davison, Gardendale Baptist Church, Corpus Christi, Texas. Gardendale Baptist Church

5633 S Staples St., Corpus Christi, TX 78411-4646 Phone: (361) 991-0285. Website:http://www.gardendale.org/.

165 members ousted on July 21, 2004:

Source: http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org /bpnews.asp?ID=18997, and Corpus Christi Times: Margaret Neu
Information Services Editor, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, P. O. Box 9136, Corpus Christi, TX 78469
neum@caller.com 361-886-4312
 

Testimonies of ousted members Piedad Ymbert, B.J. Moore, Grady Jackson, available on September 2004 archived realaudio files on Southwest Radio Church at swrc.com, archived, September 2004 at: http://www.swrc.com/broadcasts/2003/september.htm, and letters, Rick Hudson emails and telephone interviews, September/October 2004.

Sundquist, James. Who's Driving the Purpose Driven Church? Bible Belt Publishing, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 2004. pp. 193-194. Website: http://www.swrc.com and http://www.abrahamic-faith.com/False-Teachers.html

5. Pastor Gary Clark, Eugene Christian Fellowship, 89780 N. Game Farm Rd.,Eugene, OR  97408
541-344-3380. Website: http://www.ecf.org/Content/ContentCT.asp?P=22

Confirmed in letters from and correspondence with Eugene Christian Fellowship leaders: Tim Reich, Executive Pastor Jonathan Hatmaker, Discovery 301 Class (SHAPE), Mark Harpham, November 11-19, 2004

6. American Family Radio News, 107 Parkgate Dr. Tupelo, MS 38801. (662) 844-8888 Radio news segment ran February 15, 2005.www.afr.net

7. Source: Regarding Watchman on the Wall radio show....Prophetic Observer, February and March Issues, Southwest Radio Church. Southwest Radio Church, PO Box 100, Bethany, OK  73008
WATS Line: 800-652-1144, Local Phone: 405-789-1222, FAX: 405-787-2589, Email: info@swrc.com

8. Sr. Pastor Randy Myers, New Hope Church, 20080 Pinebrook Blvd., Bend, Oregon 97702. Tel (541)389-3436 20080. Website: http://www.newhopeonline.net Correspondence with Pastors Josh Conn (2/03/2005-2/23/2005 and William Vermillion, The Evangelical Church denomination, an NAE affiliate: 2/26/2005-3/12/2005

9. Pastor Mark Martin, Calvary Community Church, 12612 N. Black Canyon Hwy.,Phoenix, Arizona 85029. Tel. Phone: (602) 973-4768. Toll Free: (888) 970-3030. Email Address: calvary@calvaryphx.com. Website: http://www.netministries.org/see/churches.exe/ch19442

Testimony of Bear Frankson based on events since July 2004. Taped interview: 2/18/2005.

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For further information on Rick Warren's teaching, I invite you to consider my book Who's Driving the Purpose Driven Church? at amazon.com which is published by Southwest Radio Church and available there too at swrc.com

 

Here is Chapter 11 of my book which proves that Warren's SHAPE Discovery 301 Class and questionnaire is embedded with Carl Jung's teachings, compulsory for members of Saddleback Church:

 

PERSONALITY PROFILING

http://www.abrahamic-faith.com/James/personality-profiling.html

 

 

Kindest regards in Christ,

James Sundquist

Director

Rock Salt Publishing