Warning about Warren

Warning about Warren
I have been reading articles written by Rick Warren for some time now and I am always taken aback not so much by what he says about God and Jesus Christ, his son, but by what he doesn’t say.

He doesn’t say,” Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved,” or “Without belief in God’s only way of salvation, Jesus, you will have no hope and ultimately end up in hell where you do not really want to be." He does not say, "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” No, Warren has a completely different message to the world. His message is, “God loves you,” and “God made you for a purpose.”

While he does not say these these Warren does say quite a lot. Upon close inspection I am taken aback at his double-speak, his self-promotion and the way he speaks badly about those who are the beloved of God.

This first came to my attention October 2003 when someone told me that they were reading Warren’s books. I knew nothing of Warren at the time, but in learning more here and there I finally stumbled across his Peace Plan sermon of November 2003. Listening to this sermon get me interested in know who this man was and what he stood for.

It was not long before I was convinced the man who looked like a sheep was something else beneath the surface, and it all began as I listened to him tell his congregation he was now convinced he was wrong for the last twenty five years about the greatest thing a person could do with their lives. He was no longer convinced the greatest thing a person could do was lead another person to faith in Jesus Christ. No, this pastor who had believed that silly, wrong notion for the last twenty five years was wrong all that time, but now he had the right perspective. He now believed the greatest thing someone could ever do was build a church.

And what do you suppose is the foundation of those churches? If a person is not a Christian it is no longer JEsus Christ... but as you can discover from reading his books and materials the foundation of faith in JEsus Christ is no longer a necessity....if you change your mind like he did and get the story straight, after all these years. The foundation of those churches is something anyone, not just Christians can believe it. The foundation, the very thing you put your faith in, is not Jesus, nor the atonement for your sin, but rather "purpose."

It seems that through this shepherd the eople are being lead purposely away from the truth and unto a lie.

There are lots of bible verses about deception and being decieved :

Matthew 24:4-5, 11, 24(Mark 13:5-6; Luke 21:8) “And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many…And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many…For there shall arise false Christ’s, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”

Romans 16:17-18 “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.”

I Corinthians 6:9-10 “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”

II Corinthians 4:2 “But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.”

II Corinthians 11:3 “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”

II Corinthians 11:13 “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.”


Ephesians 4:14, 22 “That ye henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive…”

Ephesians 5:6-7 “Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them.”

Colossians 2:4 “And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.”
Colossians 2:8 “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of man, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”

II Thessalonians 2:3, 9-11 “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition…Even him(son of perdition)whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:”

I Timothy 2:14 “And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”

II Timothy 3:13 “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.”

James 1:22, 26-27 “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves…If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

II Peter 2:13-14 “And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:”

I John 1:8 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”

I John 3:7 “Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.”

II John 7 “For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.”


Revelation 18:23 “And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee(Babylon); and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”