Blair courts controversial US pastor Rick Warren in bid to unite faiths

[Anddra]

Former prime minister builds network of Christian allies as he prepares to launch a religious 'offensive' in North America.

Tony Blair is preparing to launch a "faith offensive" across the United States over the next year, after building up relationships with a network of influential religious leaders and faith organisations.

With Afghanistan and Iraq casting a shadow over his popularity at home in Britain, Blair's focus has increasingly shifted across the Atlantic, to where the nexus of faith and power is immutable and he is feted like a rock star.

According to the annual accounts of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, a UK-based charity that promotes cohesion between the major faiths, the foundation is to develop a US arm that will pursue a host of faith-based projects. The accounts show that his foundation has an impressive – and, in at least one case, controversial – set of faith contacts. Sitting on some £4.5m in funds as of April last year, mostly gathered through donations, it is now well placed to make its voice heard.

The foundation's advisory council of religious leaders includes Rick Warren, powerful founder of the California-based Saddleback church. It attracts congregations of nearly 20,000 and is reportedly one of the largest in the US. Warren, who has addressed the UN and the World Economic Forum in Davos, has been named one of the "15 world leaders who matter most" and one of the "100 most influential people in the world".

Blair chooses America for launch of faith offensive to unite the religions | Politics | The Observer

[micah719]

offensive....correct choice of word to describe it...

[AnnS]

I just hope the world don't believe that the "useful idiot" Warren reflects what most real born again Christians practice.

Warren is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

[Creationastro]

I just hope the world don't believe that the "useful idiot" Warren reflects what most real born again Christians practice. . .

I am sure many do. Just for kicks, I ran Billy Graham vs Rick Warren in Google Fight. Graham came back with 1,850,00 hits vs Warren's 875,000. I know that is hardly scientific and means little if nothing. Somehow, though, it made me smile.

Randy

[Romans 12:2]

Rick Warren?!?! LOL... might have just as well been Joel Olsteen.

[bghtnpd4]

[FaithDefenderGuy]

Rick Warren?!?! LOL... might have just as well been Joel Olsteen.

Look how many churches are part of the Purpose Driven Network

Purpose Driven Church - Churches Changing Lives on Purpose

[mattfivefour]

Look how many churches are part of the Purpose Driven Network

Purpose Driven Church - Churches Changing Lives on Purpose

Can anybody still doubt that the great apostasy, the great falling away of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 is well underway?

[micah719]

Could it be that the great harlot of Revelation 17 is not riding bareback?

[SoZo]

Look how many churches are part of the Purpose Driven Network

Purpose Driven Church - Churches Changing Lives on Purpose

Whats so bad about the Purpose Driven Church Network...

Im just not familiar with their ways... ? My old church is part of the network, thats why im asking.

[Inky]

Can anybody still doubt that the great apostasy, the great falling away of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 is well underway?

Apostasy Matt is well underway across our great land (in my opinion). I just can’t help but think what is TB doing traveling across our country especially when it concerns religion. He might want to start in his own country and then across Europe, then, if he still has the energy, he can come here.

[Dave]

Can anybody still doubt that the great apostasy, the great falling away of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 is well underway?

I have been believing that it has been underway for quite sometime.

[FaithDefenderGuy]

Whats so bad about the Purpose Driven Church Network...

Im just not familiar with their ways... ? My old church is part of the network, thats why im asking.

1st Cor 5:6-11

6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

FYI, Billy Graham endorses Warren's doctrines AND his global P.E.A.C.E. plan.

[bghtnpd4]

I absolutely agree, Matt. We're going home soon!!!

[FaithDefenderGuy]

Commentary On Wall Street Journal & Baptist Press Article on Rick Warren

Commentary On Wall Street Journal & Baptist Press Article on Rick Warren

Email 9/12/2006

JAMES SUNDQUIST


COMMENTARY ON WALL STREET JOURNAL & BAPTIST PRESS ARTICLE ON RICK WARREN


Here is my commentary on the Wall Street Journal article on Rick Warren on Monday Sept 9, 2006 I was a major consultant to Suzanne Sataline on this report.

COMMENTARY ON WALL STREET JOURNAL & BAPTIST PRESS ARTICLE ON RICK WARREN

Without directly accusing Rick Warren of lying, Suzanne Sataline, author of the September 5, 2006 Wall Street Journal article: A Popular Strategy For Church Growth Splits Congregants, astutely revealed him to be one when Warren says he opposes any efforts to expel members from churches who won't comply with his programs, then she describes Dan Southerland's Church Transitions organization, one of Rick Warren major global partners and quotes by their spokespersons Roddy Clyde and Glen Sartain prove that Rick Warren does promote those very efforts to expel members from churches.

The WSJ article even backed it up by documenting that Church Transitions conducted their program right at Warren's Saddleback Church, making it impossible for him to squirm out of it or say that it happened at another church...so therefore not his fault. And I can back it up too because I have tapes of Warren's PDC Conference leaders in Nairobi Kenya, confirming their alliance with Church Transitions in Warren's Global Peace Plan.

I can't even believe he would make such an audacious statement that can be so easily refuted when he trains 400,000 pastors all over the world how to do precisely just that when dealing with his "resisters" and those who "must die". Suzanne Sataline caught Rick Warren redhanded! Good job!

A further note in the Baptist Press article that there was not an ounce of compassion for any of the victims of Rick Warren's programs as though they had no biblical grounds for their opposition. Also note that they tried to contact Warren and the Wall Street Journal, but no record of contacting any of the victims to verify their story. You can be sure I will make this known next month when I will be interviewed on Watchman on the Wall at Southwest Radio and next week on The New World Order Disorder show on American Voice Radio Network, Prophezine Magazine, The Zeph Report, and on WQBC Radio.

The time has passed to dialog with Baptist Press. It is now the time to simply mark them as well as Dr. Barry McCarty whom the Baptist Press describes as "longtime chief parliamentarian at the Southern Baptist Convention", and Pastor Doug Morgan, Governor's Park Baptist Church whose response to me by email typifies the treatment of anyone who even appeals to a pastor regarding the teachings of Rick Warren and mirrors the published gestapo tactics of Church Transition leaders, as collaborators for their unholy alliances with Rick Warren! James Sundquist, Director, Rock Salt Publishing. Also see Lighthouse Trails commentary on it: From the Lighthouse Blog and Wall Street Journal Chronicles The Unreported Plight of Purpose Driven Refugees: Paul Proctor -- WSJ Chronicles the Unreported Plight of Purpose Driven Refugees.

[SoZo]

1st Cor 5:6-11

6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

FYI, Billy Graham endorses Warren's doctrines AND his global P.E.A.C.E. plan.

ahhh... Rick Warren is part of Purpose driven Church Network... Got it...

[Suzanne]

Can anybody still doubt that the great apostasy, the great falling away of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 is well underway?

The one-world church is being formed right before our eyes.

[SoZo]

I think the falling away there is "the rapture" but Revelations positively says one world religion.

[ArmyofHeaven777]

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