Reformed Churchmen: Churchmouse Campanologist: Rick Warren’s Purpose-Driven Church and management theory

Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Churchmouse Campanologist: Rick Warren’s Purpose-Driven Church and management theory

Churchmouse Campanologist

An excerpt:

Rick Warren’s Purpose-Driven Church and management theory

In examining error this Lent, let us not forget the daddy of them all: Rick Warren. I submit to you, whether you are Catholic or Protestant, your church or diocese is using his methods for a Purpose-Driven Church.

When you read analyses of Pastor Rick Warren’s Purpose-Driven Church, they sound much like management treatises. Words like ‘growth’, ‘capital’, ‘knowledge’, and ‘assessment’ pop up time and time again. Low on the scale are words such as ‘Bible’, ‘God’, ‘Jesus’, ‘faith’, ’sin’ and ’redemption’.