Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature
Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature
Note that Warren does not warn his readers that the heartis deceitful above all things and desperately wicked (Jeremiah17:9). What a gross, inexcusable omission! While it is truethat you can trust your desires to some extent when you are amature Christian and you are delighting in God andimmersed in His Word and obeying Him (Psa. 37:4), howmany of the readers of e Purpose Driven Life are in thatcondition? A great many of the millions of readers of thisbook are doubtless complete unbelievers or nominalChristians or novices or carnal and worldly, and to teachthem that what they love to do is God’s will is frightful heresy.Many are professional sports fanatics, for example. Others arerock & roll fanatics. Others are fanatics about modernfashion trends. Are they fanatic about such things becausethat is the way that God made them? No, they are fanaticabout such things because they are conformed to the worldand walk in the way of sinners (Psalm 1:1; Romans 12:2).ere are many things that professing Christians are giedfor and effective at that are NOT God’s will!Again, we see that when Rick Warren’s theology isexamined by God’s Word it is about self-fulfillment, but it ispresented under the guise of worshipping and serving God.Every Strange Bible VersionIn e Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren uses 15 differentBible versions, including two Roman Catholic ones (e NewAmerican Bible and the New Jerusalem Bible). His favoritesare the “dynamic equivalency” versions such as the LivingBible, the New Living Bible, Today’s English Version, theContemporary English Version, and e Message. e latterseems to be his most favorite.As a result, it is oen impossible to know exactly whatScripture he is quoting because it is so strangely paraphrasedand wildly inaccurate.On page 20, Warren quotes 1 Corinthians 2:7 from eMessage:286
“God’s wisdom ... goes deep into the interior of his purposes ...It’s not the latest message, but more like the oldest--what Goddetermined as the way to bring out his best in us.”In the King James Bible, this says:“But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even thehidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world untoour glory.”It is obvious that e Message is not a translation in anysense of the word; it is a presumption. It is not God’s thoughtsbut man’s. It is almost childish, not because it is simple butbecause it is ridiculous.Warren claims to have quoted more than 1,000 Scripturesin e Purpose Driven Life, but most of the quotations aresimilar to the previous examples and have no right to becalled Scripture.When I visited a service at Saddleback Church in 2003, Iobserved that only a few people were carrying Bibles into theauditorium. e reason became clear when I saw themultiplicity of versions that were used in the preaching. Itwould be impossible to follow along in one’s Bible. e resultis that the people do not bring their own Bibles and do nottherefore carefully test the preaching. How could they, whenany biblical statement they would attempt to examine hasdozens of contradictory variations in various versions?God Loves All Kinds of MusicIn chapter 8 of e Purpose Driven Life, Warren becomes aprophet, saying:“God loves all kinds of music because he invented it all--fastand slow, loud and so, old and new. You probably don’t like itall, but God does! ... Christians oen disagree over the style ofmusic used in worship, passionately defending their preferredstyle as the most biblical or God-honoring. But there is nobiblical style! ... God likes variety and enjoys it all. ere is nosuch thing as ‘Christian’ music; there are only Christian lyrics.287
- Page 241 and 242: And yet, ALL THESE BIBLE-BELIEVING,
- Page 243 and 244: which also produces for the Rolling
- Page 245 and 246: layers of our reality and gets to t
- Page 247 and 248: every nation and preach the gospel
- Page 249 and 250: Some of her songs contain a scriptu
- Page 251 and 252: Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals
- Page 253 and 254: followed by prayers, a prophecy, an
- Page 255 and 256: Christ stated: “ink not that I am
- Page 257 and 258: can hear that not all Christian mus
- Page 259 and 260: claiming to love the Lord. (Many yo
- Page 261 and 262: When P.O.D. was asked, “Do you tr
- Page 263 and 264: unity. e name Jehovah is a biblical
- Page 265 and 266: erase lines. We are to choose the s
- Page 267 and 268: Beach, California. Gay’s Propheti
- Page 269 and 270: e false spirit of the latter rain p
- Page 271 and 272: on before the band said that they w
- Page 273 and 274: Central training school sponsored b
- Page 275 and 276: has endorsed e Shack with its non-j
- Page 277 and 278: Assad converted to the Roman Cathol
- Page 279 and 280: “e man sitting beside me, Dwayne
- Page 281 and 282: y the ‘catcher.’ It appeared th
- Page 283 and 284: laughing hysterically. Some were ro
- Page 285 and 286: IT BY THE BIBLE. When he finally st
- Page 287 and 288: Many independent Baptist churches a
- Page 289 and 290: sorts of false christs, but Warren
- Page 291: will with God’s will so that they
- Page 295 and 296: heard on any Sunday at Saddleback C
- Page 297 and 298: "ATMOSPHERES ARE GOING TO COME THRO
- Page 299 and 300: “Everything was fine for the firs
- Page 301 and 302: and worship in a concert-like setti
- Page 303 and 304: licentiousness (sex, drugs, etc.) a
- Page 305 and 306: worship him” (“Mother Teresa To
- Page 307 and 308: e acronym PEACE gives the means of
- Page 309 and 310: Warren’s plan also narrows Christ
- Page 311 and 312: Under Muchow’s direction Saddleba
- Page 313 and 314: music. ey make no attempt to hide t
- Page 315 and 316: JARS OF CLAY names Jimi Hendrix and
- Page 317 and 318: We have seen that contemporary Chri
- Page 319 and 320: service 2009 and Ozzy Osbourne’s
- Page 321 and 322: obligations on people. (See “e Sh
- Page 323 and 324: Magazine, July 1998, pp. 107-108) H
- Page 325 and 326: “Most people who attended the unu
- Page 327 and 328: W. Smith’s Rocketown Promote Sata
- Page 329 and 330: In the same interview, St. James ca
- Page 331 and 332: want in Christ. Two other of her so
- Page 333 and 334: I felt ev’ry teardrop when in dar
- Page 335 and 336: adultery He said, “Neither do I c
- Page 337 and 338: “He that saith, I know him, and k
- Page 339 and 340: She moves in charismatic and ecumen
- Page 341 and 342: warned that in the last days aposta
“God’s wisdom ... goes deep into the interior <strong>of</strong> his purposes ...It’s not the latest message, but more like the oldest--what Goddetermined as the way to bring out his best in us.”In the King James Bible, this says:“But we speak the wisdom <strong>of</strong> God in a mystery, even thehidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world untoour glory.”It is obvious that e Message is not a translation in anysense <strong>of</strong> the word; it is a presumption. It is not God’s thoughtsbut man’s. It is almost childish, not because it is simple butbecause it is ridiculous.Warren claims to have quoted more than 1,000 Scripturesin e Purpose Driven <strong>Life</strong>, but most <strong>of</strong> the quotations aresimilar to the previous examples and have no right to becalled Scripture.When I visited a service at Saddleback Church in 2003, Iobserved that only a few people were carrying Bibles into theauditorium. e reason became clear when I saw themultiplicity <strong>of</strong> versions that were used in the preaching. Itwould be impossible to follow along in one’s Bible. e resultis that the people do not bring their own Bibles and do nottherefore carefully test the preaching. How could they, whenany biblical statement they would attempt to examine hasdozens <strong>of</strong> contradictory variations in various versions?God Loves All Kinds <strong>of</strong> MusicIn chapter 8 <strong>of</strong> e Purpose Driven <strong>Life</strong>, Warren becomes aprophet, saying:“God loves all kinds <strong>of</strong> music because he invented it all--fastand slow, loud and so, old and new. You probably don’t like itall, but God does! ... Christians oen disagree over the style <strong>of</strong>music used in worship, passionately defending their preferredstyle as the most biblical or God-honoring. But there is nobiblical style! ... God likes variety and enjoys it all. ere is nosuch thing as ‘Christian’ music; there are only Christian lyrics.287
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