The opening sentence of the press release refers to the signing of the Shared Mission Covenant for the Global Glory of God. However, the closing remark by Rick Warren reveals not only the real motivation of the PEACE Coalition but an outright mischaracterization of the Biblical Bride of Christ:Rick Warren and 1,700 Leaders Launch the Peace Coalition at Purpose Driven Summit
Ministry and Marketplace Leaders from 39 Countries and 50 States Sign Shared Mission Covenant for the Global Glory of God
LAKE FOREST, Calif., May 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- Over 1,700 leading pastors, business and Christian institutional leaders from 39 countries and all 50 states gathered in Lake Forest, California, May 20-22, to create The PEACE Coalition, a new international alliance of churches, businesses, ministries, universities, and other institutions.
The launch of the PEACE Coalition occurred at a three day Purpose Driven Network Summit hosted by Saddleback Church where Dr. Rick Warren is the founding pastor. The coalition will cooperate in a global mission strategy calledthe P.E.A.C.E. Plan, which is a massive, long range effort to mobilize one billion Christians in local churches around the world to copy Jesus’ model of ministry.
"At a wedding the bride is the main character, the center, the star of the show – everyone else is supporting cast, but the glory goes to the bride," Warren concluded. "The P.E.A.C.E. Plan is built on the same principle. The Bride of Christ – of which the church is its local expression around the world – deserves the focus, the credit and the glory for faithfully serving their communities year after year."
Warren uses his presupposition to reinforce the notion that any church is a "good church". One certainly would not criticize the "good works" of a "good church". After all, this is a modern reformation, according to Warren, of "deeds, not creeds...I don't care why you do good as long as you do good."
Warren may not care, but Christ certainly does...
Matthew 7:21-23 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' 23 And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'
Warren's opinion of where and why the glory belongs to the church is blasphemous. The Bride of Christ exists to glorify God. Here's just one passage that reveals to Whom the glory belongs:
Ephesians 3:21 to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
For Rick Warren to confer focus, credit and glory on "good churches" for the "good works" in their communities is blasphemous. From the Gospel of Luke:
26:26 "Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
Here's just one example of what Christ spoke of regarding a type of response from the world...
John 17:14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
From whom should the church look for focus, credit and glory?
Matthew 6:1-3 "Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. "Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
The Bride of Christ Rick Warren claims is reflected in his ecumenical P.E.A.C.E. plan is not the Bride of Christ found in the Bible. It more closely resembles one of the many daughters of the harlot in Revelation 17:
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH
"It's coming, folks, a one-world religion. We seem to be very irreligious in our country. That's changing rather rapidly. There are efforts, of course, in the ecumenical movement to sweep away all dogma, to sweep away all distinctions that divide and move the world toward one great tolerance toward religion, to pave the way for this gathering of one-world religion.
- Dr John MacArthur
Jeremiah 5:31
31 the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?
See more on the PEACE train to Rome here.
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The church belongs to satan the ELECT onto CHRIST.
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