Purpose Driven or Scripture Driven? - Way of Life Literature

Joining Hands with Baptist WorldAllianceRick Warren was a featured speaker at the Baptist WorldAlliance’s (BWA) Centenary Congress in Birmingham,England, in late July 2005.In this venture Warren joined hands with Jimmy Carter,who has stated that Mormons are Christians and they shouldnot be targeted for evangelism, and Tony Campolo, who saysthat homosexuality is an inborn trait and who refers to“evangelical homosexuals” (Christian News, March 4, 1991).During a press conference at the BWA Congress, Warrencalled the Southern Baptist Convention’s withdrawal fromthat organization “silly” and “a mistake” (“Warren: GlobalBaptists Are in This Together,” Kentucky Western Recorder,July 27, 2005).A mistake to pull out of an organization that is shotthrough with theological liberalism? Rick Warren obviouslyhas a greater love for wolves in sheep’s clothing than JesusChrist does. See Matthew 7:15-17.Warren said Baptists should have “unity withoutuniformity.”This is not the kind of “unity” we find in the Bible. Paulinstructed the churches, “... that ye all speak the same thing,and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye beperfectly joined together in the same mind and in the samejudgment” (1 Cor. 1:10).Warren said, “I see absolutely zero reason in separating myfellowship from anybody.”He needs to read the Bible, because it contains manyreasons for separation from error.63