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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:
Seeking out a vision for your church community January 9, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
As pastor of a small Protestant church community in a European country which is truly becoming 'secular city' it is important to find material in order to try to formulate a vision - a new way of doing church in our postmodern times. I found Rick Warren's book truly valuable - the Church Council are using it now to evaluate the way forward - because a Church without a vision or mission is hopelessly lost! I would highly recommend the book to other pastors.
Susan Waters
Opstandingskerk
Aalst, Belgium
 Pragmatism in Full Bloom December 27, 2006
14 out of 19 found this review helpful
What Charles Finney popularized in the 19th century Rick Warren has taken to a new level in an era of mass communication. At the core PDC is rooted in semipelagianism, a teaching labled heresy by the church in 529 AD. Semipelagianism laid dormant for centuries and was given new life by Jacabus Arminius. Today the heresy is known as arminianism. In short the doctrine cuts at the core of biblical revelation, denying God's sovereinty in salvation. The result is a pragmatic approach to ministry where results are measured and the question as to their biblical justification is ignored. PDC , therefore, employes woldly business and marketing techniques to "grow" the church, reducing and often eliminating the need for God to build His church. PDC will lead a pastor and church down a path of doctrinal error. The visible church (unregenerate crowd) may grow, but the invisible church (the redeemed) will languish. The focus will shift from the mandate to feed the flock to entertaining the goats. Skip this book and practice ministry as outlined in THE book--the Bible. God has not called pastors to be "successful", but to be faithful to His Word and Gospel. Adherants of the PDC philosophy ultimately sacrifice both in their quest for "success."
 Madison Avenue-style marketing as applied to church growth November 10, 2006
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
The problem I have with everything about the Purpose-Driven Church ("PDC") model is that it is predicated on one fact to justify why it is "better" or "more effective" than any other model--NUMBERS.
Having gone to a PDC, I find it disturbing that everything is reduced down to something is watered-down and stupefied for the masses. Even things such as accepting Christ into your heart end up being something that you end up checking off on an impersonal card. Everything has a different term that is watered-down enough to make it palatable to the masses. The PDC produces a generation of "believers" who don't know what they believe, because their Biblical knowledge is supplanted by other Christian self-help books.
The idea that the Sunday service is the focal point and that having a multimedia spectacle somehow will draw more believers is crazy. In the end, I think that you could apply everything you read in the PDC here to any part of your life. It's just purely incidental that they are using Jesus as the subject matter here.
 Purpose Driven Church November 6, 2006
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is an excellent, must have handbook for all Pastors, Church Staff Members, and Leaders. This book sites the laws and directions of Christ and his apostles in the formation and purpose of His Church. The Church exists for Christ's purpose not our own. It is each church's responsibility to seek the purpose Christ has for them and then it is their job to set about to do it. Warren backs up everything in his book. It was fun to read and it was exciting to see the potential of each church if they just seek Christ for their purpose.
 Interesting October 28, 2006
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is a good read to those in search of new evangelistic ideas. I must say that Rick Warren is one of the first group of pastors to bring church's into a new age
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