What on Earth Am I Here For? 40 Days of Purpose Campaign Edition

This book will change the way you live your life, for the better! If you have ever wondered why you are here and what your purpose is, you will love this book! Since reading this book, several women and I have started a Book Club to introduce the book to others and discuss our purpose. LOVE this and highly recommend!!

My son and I are going through this together. Yes, it has great content and we are learning, I find 1 BIG issue with his use of bible verses in the book. 1 - He actually does NOT quote the whole verses, which I was taught was important for gaining full measure of verse.
2 - The verses he quotes at beginning of chapter, together with so many others, can give a whole different meaning to verse.
3 - within each chapter, he does not cite where verse located, but is marked with a number. IF you want to check verse for correct translation, you have to go to back of book, find actual verse location - I am SERIOUSLY having to look at each verse In my bible and Compare with what he cites.
4. Even though he attempts to explain why he uses so many differently translations for his verses w/in chapters, I STILL think that he should have used only 1 translation of bible. The person reading the bible verse "quotes" he gives throughout the book should not have to go through attempting to understand when they read it that he chose so many translations - not understanding the usage of many versions of God's word.

WHAT READERS CAN LEARN FROM THIS BOOK

1. The Bible teaches self-sacrifice, not self-fulfillment.

2. The pursuit of materialism ultimately produces boredom.

3. What is the value of character qualities such as faithfulness, keeping confidentiality with others, humility, and serving others unnoticed?

4. What it means to surrender to God in obedience.

5. Maintaining continual fellowship with God through brief, conversational prayers throughout one's day.

6. Having a friendship with God includes experiences of feeling abandoned by Him, being treated unfairly, expressing bitterness, and negotiating with Him.

7. How people worship God in different ways, such as aesthetics, enthusiasts, traditionalists, and contemplatives.

8. Not feeling the presence of God does not indicate that He has abandoned us, since He promises to never leave us or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5).

9. Being a member of God's family will someday result in living with God forever, being completely changed into the character of Jesus Christ, and being forever free from pain, death, and suffering.

10.The first step in resolving conflict with others is having a discussion with that person.

11. The importance of daily Bible reading in shaping one's character.

12. God uses suffering to change us into the character and habits of Jesus Christ. How God is not distant and detached when we suffer, but rather, He Himself suffers when we suffer.

13. How to resist temptation by focusing on something else, meditating on Scripture, and being accountable to a friend.

14. God's will for your vocation often coincides with the talents, skills, and abilities He has given you.

15. Our weaknesses are an opportunity for God to display His power and strength (II Corinthians 12:9,10).

Rick Warren's Purpose

Rick Warren is clever enough to understand, and profit from, the fact that out of 250 million American churchgoers, not one knows the Biblical purpose for his or her life. He knows he is free to fabricate a purpose for these people with no opposition.

On page 306 of his The Purpose Driven Life he gives his five separate purposes and directs his readers to “balance” them: worship, ministry, evangelism, fellowship and discipleship. On page 66 he tells his readers to worship whether they like it or not. His explanation is that worship is for God’s benefit, not ours. He also says that we were planned for God’s pleasure, not ours. This is just “reprobate theology.” It is preaching the idea that Jesus’ sheep exist only to feed a religious institution and that pastors are not required to feed Jesus’ sheep.

Warren is lost when it comes to God’s Love. God really does love us and everything He does is for our greatest joy. God’s plan puts our spiritual joy first. Warren seems to think God hates us and wants us to suffer through wrongheaded preaching that substitutes moronic jokes for the joy of the Lord and dead works for mercy. When he pontificates about love he is death-like. He spells love, T-I-M-E. Time is not a substitute for love unless you are dead in your sins!

Furthermore, Warren mocks everyone who is a seeker. He derides them as spiritual orphans and “bunny believers” because they “hop” around to different churches. He is evidently ignorant of John 3:8, which gives the one physical characteristic of EVERY person who is born again: each is like the wind! He has paid someone to tell him he is born again and then has gone a step further by mocking and inciting condemnation for all those who are truly born again. He ridicules the children of God who are closest to Him by calling them spiritual orphans! WOW! How could any preacher be more wicked than that?!

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. –Gal. 4:29

Again Warren shows his ignorance by saying a church family will help keep a person from backsliding. Backsliding is exclusively an Old Testament term. God’s true children have Christ within them from whom it is impossible to backslide. However, Warren is correct about one thing in his warning. His proselytes need to congregate. They could easily backslide from their man-made rules if these rules were not constantly reinforced by group meetings.

Warren goes deeper into his philosophy on page 133, when he says it is impossible to be a “good Christian” without being a committed churchgoer and that if a person is not a churchgoer he cannot claim to be a Christian. He also has the impudence to assert that being a churchgoer identifies a person as a genuine believer! That is idiocy. It is love for one another that positively identifies a person as a true believer. In so many words, Warren is saying that we will burn in Hell unless we become non-thinking, non-seeking churchgoers! Read the Bible and find out if he is right.

Jesus died on the cross to enable us to have His Spirit live within us (Col. 1:27). But Warren glosses over “Christ in us.” As a substitute, he encourages his followers to “perfect their flesh” and be Christ-like, just as is Satan, the most Christ-like being in the universe. We do not need to spend many years perfecting our flesh to make it look like Christ as Warren suggests. God immediately puts Christ’s Spirit within everyone who prays the prayer of salvation. All these believers have “arrived” and are able at any time to manifest Christ’s Spirit of mercy as well as Christ’s Spirit of “testifying that the works of the world are evil.”

The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. -John 7:7

Warren’s last four purposes—ministry, evangelism, fellowship and discipleship, as explained by Warren, are for the purpose of being with and helping others make proselytes for his brand of altruism (joyless obedience). Congregating with hypocrites is not fellowship unless you are also a hypocrite. Identically, discipleship is not turning others into children of Hell (Matt. 23:15).

Warren omits everything about the Biblical purpose for God’s children. He never once mentions the joy of the Lord or obeying the voice of Jesus (John 10:27). And most importantly, he never mentions the real purpose of a child of God, which is feeding Jesus’ sheep! (John 21:17)

Anytime I hesitate about what to do, I find my purpose by simply remembering Jesus’ command: If you love Me, feed My sheep. Feeding Jesus’ sheep is the Greatest Commission because anyone can do it anywhere at any time. We can always find someone who needs mercy or encouragement. And the best thing about this Commission is that when we feed Jesus’ sheep God rewards us with His joy NOW and treasures in heaven later. The joy of the Lord is the driving force behind true believers in Christ—not Warren’s “pie in the sky bye and bye” dead purposes.

On his dust jacket, Warren refers to himself as “America’s most influential spiritual leader.” That should tell you exactly why America is getting sicker and colder every day. Why does he never mention the joy of salvation, the greatest experience a believer can have? He has not experienced it. Why does he never mention the voice of Jesus? He has does not follow it. And why does he never mention feeding Jesus’ sheep? Although he is an expert at feeding Satan’s goats, he flaunts his hatred for Jesus’ sheep. When it comes to the Bible, Warren is a clumsy moron but when it comes to making money using the Name of Jesus, he is at his best.

All in all, Warren is directing everyone to feed a religious institution. He is an expert at church-building, but ignorant about salvation, faith, love and feeding Jesus' sheep. He is baffled by and hates God's children because they get in the way of his money-making endeavors. His advice is designed to deceive people into being completely submissive to and in unity with the legalistic institution of his or her choice. Furthermore, he tells them their “purpose” is to feed that beast with proselytes. In doing so, he has made untold millions for overbearing pastors who hate the voice of Jesus leading believers. No wonder his book is a best-seller; every corrupt pastor knows this book is going to make him lots and lots of money!

If Satan himself had written Warren’s book, not one word would have been changed. It is one of the most deceptive books ever written by virtue of its legalistic preaching. And due to legalistic preaching being so deceptive, the Bible says any Christian preacher who preaches it is a minister of Satan. Rick Warren fits that description. He has convinced me that his real purpose is to lead as many as possible into the Lake of Fire.

And no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness. -II Cor. 11:14, 15

(I just hope a few people will read the Bible and wake up to what is going on. Here is the ONLY accurate identification of America's religions, you will ever find! All thinkers will be thrilled by this book. Unfortunately, most dwellers in fortresses of unreasonable ideas will hate it.)
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