Rick Warren's Aphorisms - Part 1

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Bob DeWaay's book Redefining Christianity lists a few of the aphorisms in Warren's book The Purpose Driven Life.

These are often derived from combining poor bible translations or out-of-context scripture with 'human wisdom'. Here are some examples:

"The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose" - page 30

Paul's "secret" was a focused life. - page 32

"How you define life determines your destiny" - page 41

We need a life metaphor - page 42

"St. Irenaeus said, 'The glory of God is a human being fully alive'" - page 55

There are "secrets" to friendship with God - pages 87-91

The need for "emotional honesty" - pages 93-94

"The truth is - you are as close to God as you choose to be" - page 98

Supposedly we need to have our feelings validated - page 141

We need to "ventilate vertically" like David supposedly did - page 154

"People don't care what we know until they know we care" - page 156

"Unity is the soul of fellowship. Destroy it, and you rip the heart out of Christ's Body" - page 160

. . . more to come

Posted by Jim Bublitz on February 23, 2006 @ 05:43 AM
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