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Rick Warren is a renowned pastor and author, born on January 28, 1954. He is known for his significant leadership and contributions to the global Christian community. Warren is the author of 'The Purpose-Driven Life,' which has become one of the best-selling books globally since its publication in 2002.

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Famous Rick Warren Quotes

“The mission of Tom Peterson and Catholics Come Home to bring souls home to Jesus and the church is critically important during this challenging time in our history. I fully support this New Evangelization project.”

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“People forget that the church is bigger than China. It speaks more languages than the United Nations. It has more volunteers than all the NGOs in the world put together.”

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“I'm a pastor of a local church. I'm not a televangelist. I've never had a televised program. I'm a pastor. A pastor's role is to care and comfort, encourage, teach, and everything that I do, even when I meet with world leaders, is from a pastor's heart.”

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“Many of the liberal people tend to say, "Well, the solution is government." I couldn't disagree more. The government cannot solve the problem and never will. I believe the solution to these problems is the church and that the church should be responsible for caring for the sick, and assisting the poor, and educating.”

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“Today there really aren't that many Fundamentalists left; I don't know if you know that or not, but they are such a minority; there aren't that many Fundamentalists left in America. ... Now the word "fundamentalist" actually comes from a document in the 1920s called the Five Fundamentals of the Faith . And it is a very legalistic, narrow view of Christianity, and when I say there are very few fundamentalists, I mean in the sense that they are all actually called fundamentalist churches, and those would be quite small. There are no large ones.”

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“Small churches become more effective when they specialize in what they do best.”

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“In every growing church you will find leadership that is not afraid to believe God.”

Believe Church Growing Believe In God Not Afraid

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“So when you say who does Christ die for? He died for the church, okay. I don't think God's death on the cross through Christ was a failure, if you are saying that. I do not believe that anybody he intended to die for is failing in that area.”

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“Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.”

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“I really do feel that these people are brothers and sisters in God's family. I am looking to build bridges with the Orthodox Church, looking to build bridges with the Catholic Church, with the Anglican church.”

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“When a human body is out of balance we call that disease, which indicates dis-ease of the body. Likewise, when the body of Christ becomes unbalanced, disease occurs... Health will occur only when everything is brought back into balance. The task of church leadership is to discover and remove growth-restricting diseases and barriers so that natural, normal growth can occur.”

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“I added up all the money the church paid me for the first 25 years and gave it all back.”

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“From the very beginning, I started preaching when I was 16 years old. So I began studying Scripture very seriously. I had done over a hundred revivals in Baptist churches before I was 20. So I am studying the Scripture as a kid and I'm noticing that Christians often wanted to excuse God from things that God doesn't need excusing from.”

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“The church must always show compassion, always.”

Shows Church Compassion

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“History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.”

Shows Culture Church Accommodate

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“I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.”

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“You measure a church's strength, not by its seating capacity but by its sending capacity.”

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“A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.”

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“You must match your music to the kind of people God wants your church to reach.... The music you use 'positions' your church in your community. It defines who you are.... It will determine the kind of people you attract, the kind of people you keep, and the kind of people you lose.”

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“I'm looking for a second reformation. The first reformation of the church 500 years ago was about beliefs. This one is going to be about behavior. The first one was about creeds. This one is going to be about deeds. It is not going to be about what does the church believe, but about what is the church doing.”

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“He created the church to meet your five deepest needs: a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession to live out, and power to live on. There is no other place on earth where you can find all five of these benefits in one place.”

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“Many believe one can be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree.”

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“Servants think of ministry as an opportunity, not an obligation. They enjoy helping people, meeting needs, and doing ministry.”

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“The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell."”

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Book:The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

“Every church is flawed. Still, you'd better learn to love it since it's the only group Jesus said he's taking to Heaven.”

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“When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters, and the church becomes our spiritual family. The family of God includes all believers in the past, the present, and the future.”

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“Jesus has not promised to build your ministry; he has promised to build his church.”

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“Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose.”

Purpose Church Faster Discouraged Absolutely Nothing

Book:The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message and Mission

Source: The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message and Mission

“The problem with most American churches is that they teach too much and don't do enough.”

Enough Problem Church Teach Too Much

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“Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.”

Needs Grows Church Worship Stronger Deeper Discipleship Fellowship Evangelism

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“A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.”

Grows Church Groups Worship Small Groups

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“A church will never grow beyond its capacity to meet needs.”

Needs Grows Church Capacity

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