Comments on: What Rick Warren Is Teaching Me

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:37:26 +0000

I am grateful for this post Anita. I had avoided the whole coverage of the Warren/Obama thing for a while because the first exposure to the whole thing I received on it was a very lengthy commentary regarding the Warren/Etheridge meeting. I so appreciate your balanced approach to all the connections Warren is (and is not) making–what it all means–and in the end… what is really the most important thing to focus on. I am taking the following away from this whole thing as the REAL heart of the matter: “Do I treat all people with love and compassion whether enemy or friend? Do the words I speak and the actions I take reflect integrity and consistency regardless whether they’re disclosed in public or concealed in private?
Authentic. Real. Consistent. Genuine.”

By: Ric Booth

Ric Booth — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:09:30 +0000

It makes a lot of sense to me Anita. I remember hearing of the flack Rick Warren took for “allowing himself to be used as a pawn” by the Syrians a while back. His defense of it I believe was similar to Donald Miller’s defense of his prayer at the DNC, “When someone asks you to come and pray, you go and pray.” It really isn’t that complicated. I also wonder if we are witnessing the posturing of an individual who has sold part of his soul to a publisher/publicist/pr-dept.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:07:06 +0000

2 Corinthians 11:14-15 (New International Version)
And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

A little harsher than what I would say, but my point was that God invites us to keep watch as actions do speak louder than words sometimes. Although what someone says, does say a lot about what is in their heart

Luke 6:45
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.

By: et2c

et2c — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:56:48 +0000

The 1st word that pops into my head re. your comments on “pastor”: Celebrity.

I’m sure that his celebrity status has more than a little to do with his careful courting of people like Etheridge (though I like the piece she wrote, on the whole).