Not so new, because his type have been around for ages. OK, I’ll start this post with that scripture I’ve repeatedly cited and will cite again because it seems the heretics and false teachers are being exposed well by it lately.
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 (New American Standard Bible)
14 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?
15 Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?
16 Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said,
“I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM;
AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.
17 “Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE,” says the Lord.
“AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN;
And I will welcome you.
18 “And I will be a father to you,
And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,”
Says the Lord Almighty.
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And with that in mind, we can see when reading the articles below why Rick Warren is a man to avoid. Because he’s happily bound to all manner of evil.
Barack Obama selects gay Episcopal bishop to pray at inaugural kickoff event
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In a statement late Monday, Warren complimented Obama’s decision to invite Robinson. “President-elect Obama has again demonstrated his genuine commitment to bringing all Americans of goodwill together in search of common ground,” Warren said. “I applaud his desire to be the president of every citizen.”
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(Hat tip to Robert for alerting me to that one.)
The President elect is having an apostate who promotes a doctrine of abomination and Rick Warren is like cool count me in.
Pastor Rick Warren addresses Muslim group, emphasizes need to find common ground
…Orange County Pastor Rick Warren spoke Saturday night to about 800 members of the Muslim Public Affairs Council at its convention in Long Beach.
Warren’s theme was about people getting along, forgetting their differences and focusing on areas of agreement. The audience cheered him, and many people rose to their feet.
Among the first to stand was singer Melissa Etheridge, a lesbian, who performed for the audience.
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A council spokeswoman acknowledged that some members objected to the choice of the evangelical pastor as the keynote speaker.
“We’re always looking to work with unlikely partners, and I think he’s a new kind of evangelical,” said spokeswoman Edina Lekovic. “We have a lot in common.”
Warren, like many Muslims, opposes abortion and same-sex marriage. Lekovic said he was introduced to the council by Orange County Muslim leaders who held an interfaith picnic with his congregation.
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Warren also served as part of a “prayer circle” of supportive clergy leaders during Obama’s presidential campaign.
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(Hat tip Kyle.)
Notice that claim of a “new kind of evangelical”. Well he’s really just the mold of old heretics. He’s even playing the keynote speaker role at an event with pagans and homosexuals. And just like his antichristness Benedict XVI, Warren wants to have “common ground” with pagans. Do you think the apostle Paul would have addressed a room filled with pagan deniers of Jesus as the Christ and talked about “forgetting their differences and focusing on areas of agreement”? Well, Paul did address pagans and here’s what he said.
Acts 17:22-34 (New American Standard Bible)
22 So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects. 23 “For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. 24 “The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children.’ 29 “Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man. 30 “Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, 31 because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead.â€
32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, “We shall hear you again concerning this.†33 So Paul went out of their midst. 34 But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.
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Paul did not try to please the crowd. He didn’t tell them things to have them all stand on their feet and cheer. A true man of God, Paul told those who did not know the truth, that they need to repent because Jesus Christ has been raised from the dead and will return to judge! Some of the audience sneered, any LA Times reporter probably would have deemed Paul insensitive and a zealot. But those who God called joined Paul and believed.
What Rick Warren is doing is the opposite of how to deal with those who don’t believe in Jesus. What Rick Warren promotes is another gospel. One God had Paul to warn us about.
Galatians 1:6-10 (New American Standard Bible)
6 I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel; 7 which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! 9 As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!
10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.
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Warren has people of Saddleback “church” engaging in things such as an “interfaith picnic” with pagans. And Warren visits pagans to claim it’s time to “forget differences”. Never mind they deny Christ, Warren just wants to work with them in order to score some political points. Warren’s eyes are caught up on the cares of this world and it is most dangerous to follow him.
January 18th, 2009 at 9:41 am
There is a Harlot church and there is a Bride of Christ. Only those who put Christ first will be able to see the difference. Those who love the world will receive the harlot as a promoter of peace and love. Yet as Scripture says, seeking earthly peace and safety without the Prince of Peace will bring swift destruction.
I groan in my spirit for those who are deceived. Yet, I trust the Lord to be able to share Truth with those who desire it. Thank you for being such a standard in these dark times.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
IC, click here to check out Ricky’s inclusive part of the speech.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86640
Also, don’t think for a minute that Ricky is anti-gay. The meat of the story is about 3/4ths the way down. Click on this link also.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-etheridge/the-choice-is-ours-now_b_152947.html
Kyle