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THE PURPOSE DRIVEN CHURCH?
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A Documentary on theTeachings of Rick Warren
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PART I
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• Take a show of hands
• For how many of you are your churches presently
  in Purpose Driven Campaign?
• How many have family members in Purpose Driven
  Life?

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The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren has become
a Number 1 best-seller in both Christian as well
as secular book stores
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Has been distributed to over 180,000 pastors
worldwide30,000 churches around the world have
already conducted the campaign10,000 hosting it
this Fall
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Rick Warren and Jerry Falwell (who affiliates
both with the Southern Baptist Convention and the
Bible Baptist Fellowship) partnered for a
Purpose-Driven SuperConference in both 2003
and 2004btw, for 99/person
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Also promoted and/or endorsed byJames
Dobson,Focus on the FamilyHank
Hanegraaff,Christian Research Institute Home
of the Bible Answer ManBilly Graham and
Franklin GrahamBruce Wilkinson (Prayer of
Jabez)Charles Colson
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Sold 20 million copies as of 2004See Rick
Warrens own website www.purposedriven.com
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Chapter 1False Premise of 40 Days of Purpose
Comparing Warrens 40-Day Examples to
Scripture Chapter 2Comparing Rick Warrens
Covenant to Scripture Chapter 3Inaccurate
vs. Accurate Translations Chapter 4False
Teachings Chapter 5Does Doctrine Really
Matter?
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Chapter 6Promoting False Teachers Chapter
7How to Worship Chapter 8Celebrate Recovery
Program Chapter 9Regarding Prophecy
Indicates topics in book addressed in slide
show
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Chapter 10The SHAPE Program Chapter
11Personality Profiling Chapter 12Judgment
and Separation Chapter 13Frequently Asked
Questions by Pastors and Churches Using Rick
Warrens Purpose Drive Life and SHAPE
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Appendix A Psychology vs. The Bible
Chart Appendix BThe Church Growth Movement and
Purpose Driven Church vs. The Bible Appendix
CCarl Jung, Neo-Gnosticism, and the
Myers-Briggs Temperament Indicator
(MBTI) Appendix DRick Warren/Carl Jung
Personality Theory Chart Appendix EOther
Excellent Resources, Reviews, and Exposés
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40 Days in Mythology
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40 DAYS IN BUDDHISM   He left home to follow the
traditional Indian path of the wandering holy
man, a seeker after Truth. He practiced
meditation under various teachers and then took
to asceticism. Eventually he practiced
austerities so severe that he was on the point of
death - but true understanding seemed as far away
as ever. He decided to abandon this path and to
look into his own heart and mind......
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He sat down beneath the pipal tree and vowed
that 'flesh may wither, blood may dry up, but I
shall not rise from this spot until
Enlightenment has been won.' After forty days,
the Buddha finally attained Enlightenment.  
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40 DAYS IN EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY The forty
days of the death and absence of Osiris is a
period of fasting.
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40 DAYS IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY

• The god bade them expiate the death of Icarus
  with many victims, and asked from Jove that when
  Canicula rises he should send wind for forty days
  to temper thee heat of Canicula. This command
  Arsitaeus carried out, and obtained from Jove
  Zeus the favour that the Etesian winds should
  blow.
• Hyginus Astronomica 2.4

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40 DAYS OF MYTHOLOGY IN ISLAM Islam even has a
account about 40 Days of Purpose for
AdamMuhammad said  Allah caused Adam's clay to
ferment. He left it lying around for forty
nights... Iblis Satan used to come to it and
kick it with his foot, whereupon it made sounds.
Then he said...'You are not something for making
sounds. What then were you created for? If I am
given authority over you, I shall ruin you.'
Tabari 1261 Quoted from Greg Winn's Prophet of
Doom, Cricketsong Books, 2004. Page 17
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40 DAYS IN PAGANISM The 40 Days of Weeping for
Tammuz Baal, Tammuz, Ashtoreth, Astarte and
Ishtar are all connected with pagan sun worship.
Note that Lent is a moveable observance,
connected to and preceding the festival of
Easter.
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Easter is celebrated on a day proclaimed and
initiated by the Roman Catholic Church, and not
the Bible, and is fixed based on the sun and the
Spring or Vernal equinox. Source
http//www.hope-of-israel.org/lent.htm
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So, though 40 days is found many times in the
Bible, never once is it mentioned as a time
period to be observed by Jews or Christians for
fasting and abstinence, let alone to determine
God's purpose for our life.
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• 40 Days of Mythology
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• Purpose Driven Life

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WHY YOU SHOULD REJECT RICK WARREN'S PURPOSE
DRIVEN LIFE AND CAMPAIGN BEFORE YOU EVEN GET TO
DAY ONE OF HIS 40 DAYS OF PURPOSE  
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• Take a show of hands
• How many of you found Gods purpose for your life
  in 40 days?

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Rick Warren states Whenever God wanted to
prepare someone for his purposes, he took forty
days. Rick Warren, Purpose Driven Life, Page 9
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Let God transform you into a new person by
changing the way you think. Then you will know
what God wants you to do. Romans 122 NLT
Rick Warren, Purpose Driven Life (Zondervan
Publishing, 2003), pp. 910
Now lets see what that verse really says And
be not conformed to this world but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable,
and perfect, will of God. Romans 122 (KJV)
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ETERNITY
(Sanctification)
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  Rick Warren's meaning of the term WHENEVER
could be the most glaring error in his entire
book.  It collapses on two fronts.  Biblically
it is false, because Warren's statement
"whenever God prepared someone for his purposes,
he took 40 days" would have to apply to Adam. 
So did "whenever" apply to David? to Isaiah (or
any prophet)? To John the Baptist? to James? To
the thief on the Cross? to Paul?   How about the
thousands of new Christians in the Book of Acts? 
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Talk about going beyond what is written and even
getting it wrong with all of the examples Warren
does cite re 40 days.  Since all Christians are
subject to the same doctrine, then, 40 days also
would have to apply to you, to me, to every
Christian, to Luther, to Zwingi, Jan Hus, Richard
Wurmbrandt, Walter Martin, and the host of
martyred and persecuted Christians in the Sudan
today.  And where is the documentation in his
book for the 40 days of preparation for all of
the theologians Warren cites in his book that God
took to determine their purposes? And where is
the documentation of the 40 days in allegedly
took Rick Warren for God to determine his
purpose?
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When I was visiting my mother recently, I asked
her mom, did God take 40 days to determine your
purpose, and if so, when were the 40 days?"  Her
answer there were no 40 days.  "Well, how about
dad?" "When were his 40 days?"  Answer "NEVER!" 
And the answer is "NEVER" for most of the saints
in the Bible and rarely since the
Bible.  Warren's principle of 40 Days to
determine your purpose is based on mythology NOT
Scripture! So Warren has already borne false
witness against my Christian parents and most of
Christendom throughout the ages.....and we are
only at page 9 in his book.
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Contemporary Example If you said to your wife
"whenever I go to the store, I always bring home
milk."  Now wouldn't a reasonable person conclude
that you always bring home milk when you go to
the store?  Wouldn't a reasonable person
conclude that there was NEVER a time that you did
not bring home milk when you went to the store? 
Now suppose out of thousands of times you went
to the store and brought home milk every time,
but just once, you came home without milk. .....
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Would it not be a big surprise then, if your wife
asked you "where's the milk, honey?"  So, now
let's apply Warren's axiom  There can never be
a person (Christian) when God did not take 40
days to determine his purpose!  RIGHT?  Because
remember, you or I might forget, but God would
NEVER forget.  So with the Lord, "whenever"
must mean "always"...just as it meant when the
Lord said he would be with us always...even unto
the ends of the earth.  So it has to mean there
is never an exemption or a day the Lord takes off
from this promise. .....
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So, just like the Lord always must be with us,
then, according to Warren, he must always take
40 days to determine our purpose...there can be
no exemptions or exceptions.  But is this
true?  Of course it is not true!  So Warren's
premise disintegrates and is simply false and
fraudulent and the Lord considers bearing false
witness against a brother an abomination and one
of the things He hates the most....that is unless
it is Rick Warren doing it!
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Rick Warren then compounds his error with
another axiom of supposed absolute truth when he
says The next forty days will transform your
life on the very next page (page 10 of his
book).
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Lets Now look at Rick Warrens claims
of Biblical proofs of 40 Days
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Noahs Life was transformed by 40 days of rain
(p. 10)Is this true?
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No!Noah was not transformed..he had already been
transformed and had been preaching for 120
yearsthe 40 days marked judgment for all of the
people on the earth OUTSIDE of the Arkwho
drowned! See Genesis 6-9
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Moses was transformed by 40 Days on Mount
Sinai(p. 10) Is this true?
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NO!Moses was given his purpose at the burning
bush BEFORE these 40 Days on Mt. Sinai

• See Exodus
• Chapters 3, 21-25

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The spies were transformed by 40 Days in the
Promised Land (p. 10) Is this true?
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No!10 Spies were not changed2 were already
faithful but NONE were transformed

• See Numbers 1330-33

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David was transformed by Goliaths 40 Day
challenge (p. 10) Is this true?
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NO!David was already a man after Gods own
heartand didnt even show up to until the END of
Goliath's 40 day challenge

• See I Samuel Chapter 17

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Elijah was transformed when God gave him 40 days
of strength from a single meal (p. 10) Is
this true?
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NO!It was 2 meals to simply strengthen himand
Elijah had already been given his purpose.no
transformation here!

• See I Kings Chapter 19

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The entire city of Nineveh was transformed when
God gave the people forty days to change. (p.
10) Is this true?
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Only partly true.The 40 days were given as a
deadline to judgmentbut they repented long
before then..no process of transformation here!

• See Book of Jonah

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Jesus was empowered by 40 days in the
wilderness. (p. 10) Is this true?
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NO! This is completely wrong!Jesus was tempted
during the 40 days not empoweredfurthermore He
was already all powerful and his purpose was
already known by Himself before the foundation
of the world

• SEE Matthew Chapter 4Mark Chapter 1Luke Chapter
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The disciples were transformed by 40 days with
Jesus after his resurrection. (Rick Warren,
PDL, p. 10) IS THIS RIGHT?
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NO!The Disciples were already not conformed to
this world and already had their purposeif
anything they were transformed at
Pentecostthats 50 days, not 40 days!

• See Acts 13

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Comparing Rick Warrens Covenant to Scripture
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. Rick Warren states With Gods help, I
commit the next 40 days of my life to discovering
Gods purpose for my life. Purpose Driven
Life., p. 13.
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Is this obedience to Scripture?

• NO!
• I appeal to you to consider Jesus Christs own
  words

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• Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by
  them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear
  thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine
  oaths
• But I say unto you, Swear not at all neither by
  heaven for it is Gods throne Nor by the earth
  for it is his footstool neither by Jerusalem
  for it is the city of the great King. Neither
  shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst
  not make one hair white or black. But let your
  communication be, Yea, yea Nay, nay for
  whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
  Matthew 53337

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And let us see if the Apostle James confirms this
very warning
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• But above all things, my brethren, swear not,
  neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither
  by any other oath but let your yea be yea and
  your nay, nay lest ye fall into condemnation.
• James 512

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THE ENDOF PART I