Understanding Rick Warren
by Walt Marston
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by Walt Marston
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This is an article I wrote for the GR Press over 3 years ago, about my reactions to reading Rick Warren's A Purpose Driven Life. I've been thinking about this because of the controversy over Warren's invitation to give the invocation at Obama's inaugural. See wonderful article by Melissa Etheridge. My essay is not meant to be an attack on Warren or his good intentions and those of his community. But it does underscore some fundamental differences between the way he sees the world (much as I did in my Baptist upbringing) and the way I see it today.
I see Obama's outreach to the evangelical communities as a positive thing. We must not shun those with whom we have fundamental disagreement, but reach out to them in love, knowing that the reaching out itself is the most transformative action we can take.
I see Obama's outreach to the evangelical communities as a positive thing. We must not shun those with whom we have fundamental disagreement, but reach out to them in love, knowing that the reaching out itself is the most transformative action we can take.
Also see article below entitled Not Pinocchio. It begins with "Rick Warren says..." (July 8, 2006)
