Preferatory note from Chris Lawson regarding Jacob Prasch's article JUDAS STRIKES AGAIN: Rick Warren and  Post Modernism, Rick Warren and Homosexuality and Lesbianism, Now it is Rick Warren and Islam

Dear Reader,

The small article by J.Jacob Prasch (Moriel), posted below my commentary here, uses strong language about the extreme compromises and unbiblical actions of Rick Warren.   We understand that some readers may consider this to be unkind, or needlessly crass.  However, to be quite frank, Mr. Prasch's language is very toned down compared to that of the Apostle Paul, and that of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Paul the Apostle and Jesus used much stronger language against the false teachers of their day, and they did it because they loved people and wanted to see them set free from spiritual deception.

So too, Jacob Prasch has written, albeit with sobering language, because he loves people and wants to see them set free from spiritual deception.   See also: Paul warning against heretics and false teachers Galatians 1:6-9, Philippians 3:1-3, Philippians 3:18-19,  and Jesus rebuking Pharisees: Matthew 23

Sadly and most unfortunately, masses of people today ignorantly assume that Rick Warren is an Evangelical Gospel Preacher - in the Biblical sense.  He is NOT!  He is a preacher whose flawed Gospel, incredible popularity, and 'political correctness' jockeying have run his name and Christian testimony into the ground.  Rick Warren's pleasing of the masses and tickling peoples ears has clearly taken precedence over the clear preaching of the Biblical Jesus and the Biblical Gospel, and teaching sound Biblical theology to Christians. 

Furthermore, Rick Warren and his Saddleback Church leadership have shown themselves to be unrepentant in that they have not and will not pull Mr. Warren's unbiblical teachings from the marketplace.  As far as theology, Rick Warren's global P.E.A.C.E. Plan and his waffling theology has clearly disqualified him for Biblical leadership.  How do we know this?  His false teachings have been exposed by Biblical pastors, teachers, missionaries and Christian apologetics ministries around the globe for several years now.  Sadly, Mr. Warren still will not repent.  He continues to confuse the unbelieving world, and undiscerning Christians and pastors, about Christ's Gospel and the salvation of sinners.  This is certainly a major problem indeed.  One wonders which Jesus Rick Warren and his followers have.  Paul the Apostle was clear that there are indeed counterfeit "Jesus's", which Christians can be led away in error to:

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity[a] that is in Christ. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!  (2 Cor. 11:2-4)

Perhaps you are one who has been ignorant of these things.  I write to lovingly warn you.  Perhaps you are one who will reject the truth of these things altogether.  If so, this is willful rebellion. 

Our friend Jacob Prasch, as well as many other Bible preachers and teachers [sample links], have exposed Rick Warren's errors time and time again. Thorough documention exposing the errors of Warren's Purpose Driven - Social Gospel can be obtained from many places. There are mountains of resources to validate what I am writing here.  If you are upset about what I have written here, please do take some time read the documentation for yourself.  I believe you will be shocked at just how far Mr. Warren is going.

Brief Sampling of Resources Documenting Rick Warren's false teachings, compromises, etc.

Purpose Driven Jihad! - by Be Alert!

Moriel Ministries - Purpose Driven

Various Articles at Moriel - Purpose Driven

Rick Warren Topical Index - Lighthouse Trails

The Serious Problems With Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Movement - Lighthouse Trails

Purpose Driven Paradigm - Lighthouse Publishing

Rick Warren and Purpose Driven - Christian Research Service

Rick Warren / Church Growth Movement - Deception In The Church

Purpose Driven Inclusive Church - Roger oakland

Faith Undone - Roger Oakland

Archive At Kjos Ministries - Berit Kjos

Our reason for posting Jacob Prasch's article below ["JUDAS STRIKES AGAIN..." ], even though very strong language is used, is to point out in no uncertain terms that it appears that Rick Warren will stop at nothing to please the undiscerning masses and promote his agenda.  Warren's sheer avoidance of preaching the Biblical Jesus and God's Gospel to Muslims, to Post-Modern Liberals, to Homosexuals and Lesbians, and to everyone else for that matter, is truly an amazing dilemma.  Rick Warren calls himself a preacher - therefore he ought to preach man's ruin; repentance from sin; Christ crucified and resurrected; the avoidance of hell through God's grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone; that Jesus is God and God the Father's Son; and that all men everywhere must repent or face divine judgment and eternity spent in the lake of fire.  But Rick Warren does not, for it is not 'politically correct'.

Until Rick Warren repents, ministries around the world will continue to expose his compromises, confusing theology, and anti-Christian behavior. 

"As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ" (Col.3:6-8)

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.  For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith." (Romans 1:16-17)

Prayerfully, and with the desire to see Rick Warren repent and begin walking in the truth as it is in Jesus,

 

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IS RICK WARREN THE MEDIA FRIENDLY VOICE FOR THE REGENERATE CHURCH OR FOR THE DEGENERATE CHURCH ?

Rick Warren, whose efforts to turn Evangelical Christianity into a psychologized religion based on marketing with his ‘Purpose Driven’ agenda stunned many who claim to be regenerated bible believing Christians when he appeared on Larry King Live globally offering an apology to the homosexual & lesbian community for his ‘apparent’ opposition to California’s Proposition 8 outlawing legal recognition of same sex marriage. He did this after creating the unambiguous impression he did oppose it. Warren’s hypocrisy or Christ-less treachery appear to know no limits. Yesterday’s theological liberal is today’s supposed ‘Evangelical’.

From his butchering of scripture out of context, to his reliance on Eugene Peterson’s ‘The Message’ which to any biblical Evangelical schooled in New Testament Greek can only be described as an utter bastardization of Holy Writ , Warren has set mew limits to spiritual seduction.

On the basis of scripture, Warren’s translocational hermeneutics in which he literally ‘cuts and pastes’ verses from one book or passage into another to completely change the original meaning demonstrates categorically that Rick Warren is clearly of the devil – an agent of hell dispatched by Satan to destroy what con artist tele-evangelists and ecumenists have not already destroyed of biblical Christianity.

Warren’s perversion of the Gospel where he replaces the biblical centrality of repentance with a consumer friendly instruction not to preach repentance at one time would have left any biblically grounded Christian, and certainly pastor warning others against this deceiver.

His exhortation to avoid end time prophecy, directly contradicting the opposite exhortation of Jesus (Achieved by deleting Acts 1: 6 and replacing it with a cut and pasted insertion of Matthew 24:3) means that he places his instructions above those of God. This is indeed the spirit of anti Christ. Like the Lucifer who whom he is employed and from he takes his orders, Warren likewise in character of Satan in Matthew 4 perverts texts out of context in isolation from co-text to create a distorted pretext. This is the devil, and this is Rick Warren.

Warren joined with Brian Maclaren (who demands a moratorium on debating the morality of homosexuality and lesbianism until the church decides if it is right or wrong) in forwarding Dan Kimbell’s book ; ‘The Emerging Church’, a post modern metaphysical philosophy of mysticism drawing on early medieval monastic spirituality with everything from icons to labyrinths to the ‘lectio divina’. Indeed, a return to the dark ages with no objective biblical compass to determine direction. Maclaren is a by theological definition a Gnostic who says then parables of Jesus should rather be interpreted on the basis of ‘our imagination’. It is Warren’s Purpose Driven lie that is the door into Maclaren’s emergence. What is astounding however is that these sons of Lucifer are portrayed as ‘Evangelicals’, despite they cannot justly claim any subscription to an exegetically biblical Evangelicism.

What is more perverse than this however is that even after Warren’s apologetic backtrack to the homosexual & lesbian community who demand legal recognition of what is biblically an unholy matrimony now claiming he is not against such same sex marriages the backlash from Christians has remained mooted. Christian bookshops continue to sell his Purpose Driven Lie.

Warren spoke at a synagogue but made no proclamation of Jesus as The Messiah as St. Paul and Jesus did when they were invited to synagogues and as others such as David Hocking have done today. Rather he lectured on his Purpose Driven programmatic approach will work to grow synagogues as well as churches. One would ask why anybody would want to help a false Judaism rejecting its own messiah to put more Jews on the path to hell? Yet Warren extends his agenda to other religions as well. Now , and most notably Islam.

Truly Born again Arab believers normally address Jesus as ‘Yesua Hamesa’, but after praying in the name of “Issa’ , (the Islamic name for Jesus who is not the Jesus of The Gospels because Issa is not God’s Son) at Obama’s inaugeration, Warren has gone once more gone further. He has now addressed an Islamic convention organized by Islamic organizations funded by oil money from Saudi Arabia which executes people for becoming Christians. Like Obama, Rick Warren said not a word about human rights abuses , the persecution of Christians throughout the Islamic world, or the rife hatred of Jews even taught to children in moslem schools and madrasses. Persecuted Christians are not on Obama’s agenda, and neither are they on Rick Warren’s. Neither of course did Warren in any sense present the Gospel to these lost souls. It is obvious that we have wicked men like George Bush and Barack Hussein Obamas in The House House because we have wicked men like Rick Warren in the pulpit.

Backslidden nations get the leaders they deserve. So do backslidden churches.

Moslems, unbelieving Jews, and homosexuals & lesbians are not the cardinal problem. These are unsaved people doomed to a Christ-less eternity unless the true church by God’s grace and with God’s help can reach them with the gospel. But what is left of the true church?

For too long it has been sandwiched between one lunatic fringe of ultra Pentecostals and hyper charismatics not knowing the difference between charismata and charismania on one extreme and another lunatic fringe of hyper Calvinistic kooks and cessationists not knowing knowing the difference between reconstructionism and The true Kingdom of God on the opposite pole of the ecclesiastical spectrum. Now the center is being satanically subverted.

If Jesus were not coming, I would become very despondent. But Praise God He is Coming. Now as the faithful remnant strengthens the things that remain the question becomes what our strategy should consist of in the meanwhile. The Lord will indeed show us if we ask Him and He has in a greater sense already showed us doctrinally in broad terms in His Word.

How can The Body of Christ not remove this demonic and highly metastatic cancer from itself but instead watch not only the lost perish but the church progressively rot to death with this auto tolerated malignancy? That demonic cancer is indeed the agenda of Rick Warren & Co.

J.Jacob Prasch/ Moriel