The Purpose-Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message and Mission

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Author: Rick Warren
Narrator: Rick Warren
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
Date: June 2004
Length: 2 hours
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  • Book Rating: 4/5
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What Drives Your Church?

Every Church is driven by something. Tradition, finances, programs, personalities, events, seekers, and even buildings can each be the controlling force in a church. But Rick Warren believes that in order for a church to be healthy, it must become a purpose-driven church, built around the five New Testament purposes given to the church by Jesus.Now the founding pastor of Saddleback Church shares a proven five-part strategy that will enable your church to grow…

Warmer through fellowship
Deeper through discipleship
Stronger through worship
Broader through ministry
Larger through evangelism

Discover the same practical insights and principles for growing a healthy church that Rick has taught in seminars to over 22,000 pastors and church leaders from sixty denominations and forty-two countries.The Purpose-Driven Church shifts the focus away from church building programs to emphasizing the people-building process. Warren says, “If you will concentrate of building people, God will build the church.”

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Warren, Rick

"Dr. Rick Warren, founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Purpose Driven Life. With over 10 million copies sold since its release in October, 2002, the book has twice received the ECPA Book of the Year Award in 2003 and 2004. Warren also wrote the Gold Medallion Award-winner The Purpose-Driven Church, with over one million copies sold in 21 languages. Other books by Rick Warren include The Power to Change Your Life, Answers to Life?s Difficult Questions, Planned for God?s Pleasure, and Personal Bible Study Methods. Dr. Warren is also the founder of Pastors.com, a global Internet community which serves and mentors those in ministry and features Rick Warren?s Ministry Toolbox, a weekly email newsletter with 85,000 pastors subscribing. Rick and his wife, Kay, began Saddleback Church as a small group in their home in January 1980. The church now averages 17,000 in attendance each weekend, lists over 60,000 names on the church roll, and, through its numerous resources and Purpose-Driven Church seminars, is having a worldwide impact. The Warrens live in Trabuco Canyon, California."