The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message and Mission Book

Although Dr. Warren says some good things in this book, there is not nearly enough good scriptural content to overshadow the over-abundance of flawed theology.

Warren repeatedly tells us in this book that the Church needs to adopt and embrace worldly culture if it intends to reach the lost. He also consistently insists that what we believe (doctrine) is not important to God, and therefore should not be important to us; he states that what God will place His ultimate importance on is what we did with His Son Jesus. However, if one really studies his/her Bible, he/she will understand that God is telling us just the opposite---that He does care about doctrine! Paul speaks of "the gravity and sincerity" of doctrine (Titus 2:7-10).

To tell people that what they believe is not important---that repentance is merely a form of worship, and not critical to salvation---that God is bored with traditional forms of worship---smacks of arrogance, falsehood, and bold-faced deceit of such a critical nature, that it cannot and should not be accepted by people who are saved by the redemptive blood of Christ.

In summation, a plethora of lies, with a few truths sprinkled in, is not the whole truth---but this is exactly what Warren has produced with this book.