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| The Purpose-Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message & Mission | 
 enlarge | Author: Rick Warren
Publisher: Zondervan
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  125 reviews
Sales Rank: 4028
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0310201063
Dewey Decimal Number: 253
UPC: 025986201067
EAN: 9780310201069
ASIN: 0310201063
Publication Date: November 27, 1995
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| Customer Reviews:
 Church Changing October 27, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read this book over a decade ago. It literally changed how I, a pastor, now "do church." The church I serve has been transformed and now is a joyful, healthy place to be. We are impacting our community for Christ and seeing lives changed. Warren's concepts are simple yet profound.
Church Health October 17, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the standard text of church growth in our day. Like it or not, churches that are growing and changing lives use some form of the ideas in this book as their template. The ideas are not new, they are biblical and taught with Warren's great talent to make the difficult into something we all can understand.
Anyone that cares at all about fulfilling the Great Commission of Christ and changing the world in which we live should read this. The first time I read it I agreed with many of the other reviewers here; a few years later when I reread the book I was shocked at how much of it had become a part of my ministry. After 15 years, this is the single most important read (next to the Bible of course) in my ministry. I couldn't have done what I have done without it.
You will get some good things from this book! May 11, 2007
If you are the pastor or leader in your church, there is no way to read this book and not get some good ideas from the reading. There is also no way to read the book and put into practice everything that Rick Warren puts into practice. You will not agree with him all the time, I certainly did not, but a review should be to let people know if the book is worth the read and this one is definately worth reading. I agree with some of the reviews and some of the criticisms, even if some of them are nit picking, but if you are in a rut or need a fresh vision or to rehone in on what your church is suppose to be doing then read this book. My criticism of the book is that I believe the church should be presence driven and not simply purpose driven, but Warren does not downplay the presence or leadership of God ever. In fact, he says "Successful ministry is 'building the church on the purposes of God in the power of the Holy Spirit and expecting the results from God." This book will help anyone think through the pertinent questions of their Church. Even if someone disagrees with Warren, then at least that person would have to think through why he disagrees and correct it and that is still a benefit to reading the book. If you are struggling with vision, purpose, mission or are just getting started as a pastor then you need to read this book. It will help your church.
The entrepreneurial evangelical April 29, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Yearbooks of American and Canadian Churches reveal stagnation and decline in mainline church memberships over the period 1991 - 2003: Catholics 0.0%, Southern Baptists -6%, Lutherans -17%, Methodists -18%, Episcopals -18%, and Presbyterians -25%. In fact the decline starte in 1960, almost a half-century ago.
Rick Warren was either unaware of these facts or was just unfazed, when he started Saddleback Church, now the largest church in the United States. Not a few pastors would like to know his secrets of success.
This book reveals that Warren is a strategic thinker with exceptional intelligence, high aspirations, and remarkable organizational skill. This book is a well-written handbook for the pastor of a Southern Baptist church and probably for pastors of many other denominations as well. His success has undoubtedly earned him the admiration and jealousy of other pastors.
He is much more focused or "purpose driven", if you will, than most of the several corporate CEO's I have known; they could learn from him.
Post-Katrina February 12, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book for any church--whatever size and whatever stage in development. The local church is a living organism and as such it's health is manifest in growth. A church that is not growing is either sick or dying. Church health (and balance) is emphazised in this text and not numbers. I belong to a once large church in eastern New Orleans that was devastated by Katrina. Rick Warren's book gives many truths and pointers on how our church can rebuild and be better than ever. The illustration in the first chapter about the movements of God being manifest in waves and us being the "surfers" is timely. Katrina was/is a blessing in being a rather large WAVE in this part of the country that many are recognizing and riding with joy and new purpose.
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