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| Rick Warren, DMin Fuller Seminary, Southern Babtist, denied he was influenced by Robert Schuller. It all began with a trip that had nothing to do with Rick Warren. I was attending an insurance conference with Christina, so we drove from Phoenix. We were looking for a hotel when we went past a sign that said Purpose Driven Street. We never let a once-in-a-lifetime meeting go by, so we parked the car and went into the church. I was shocked to see an outdoor baptismal pool. "Did you know he was Babtist?" Neither one of us did. Later I asked various Lutheran pastors the same thing, and they were also surprised. Warren was hotter than Georgia asphalt in WELS - at that time. We listened to Warren ad lib at a paid conference he presented in his church auditorium. We listened in the back, grew tired of the jibber-jabber, and left. Later we were invited to a very exclusive and gated development where a husband and wife wanted to show everyone their success. The husband asked me what I thought of Rick Warren and immediately guessed my allergy to the phony. He said, "We are members. We think he is great." Warren reminded me of Robert Schuller's emptiness and steroidal ego. WELS and the LCMS have the same problem, completely ignoring the Scriptures, bashing the KJV and TLH, always chasing the latest fad and folly. Lacking Scriptural knowledge and loathing Luther, they rely on boasting about Holy Mother Synod and they wrinkle their noses about their almost identical cousins. WELS is way ahead of Rick Warren's dogma and practice. |
