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Rick Warren, author of the best-selling Purpose Driven Series, calls himself "Rupert Murdoch's Pastor". Time Magazine calls him the "Leading Christian in the USA". Rick Warren, a protegee of New Age Industrialist Peter Drucker and Propserity Preacher Robert Shuller, also likes to speak in front of the Council on Foreign Relations and the United Nations about his "Global Peace Plan". The CRC has reported before on this Global Peace Plan.

In the same time, hundreds of thousands churches all over the world "transform" themselves into Purpose Driven Churches in order to be part of this Plan. What happens when a church goes into the "Purpose Driven Format"? In order to expose that, Dr. Noah W. Hutchings wrote a book called "The Dark Side Of The Purpose Driven Church". In an interview with Radio Liberty's Dr. Stan, he speaks openly about these "Church Transitions". The CRC reports.

It's not a coincidence, that the Latin word "Industria" means "Purpose Driven". One could say, that Rick Warren's Christianity is literally an Industrial Christianity. In his paradigm, the Pastor is no longer a Pastor, but a CEO. The Church is a company, Christianity a "product" and bascially there are two kinds of people: the "churched" and the "unchurched". "Evangelizing" becomes a recruiting of new members for the Purpose Driven Churches. Welcome to the Christian Industrial Complex!

Obviously, this has nothing to do with true Christianity at all. You don't become a true Christian by becomming a member of a Purpose Driven Church. A "Pastor" isn't the CEO of a company and Christianity is not a product. But in the Purpose Driven Church, it is. And so, churches have to be transformed.

The CRC has reported about the Eight Step Program by Church Transitions Dot Com before, and Noah Hutchings also refers to it. The program is very reveraling as it shows clearly how the members of the church have to be kept in the dark until the "leaders" have been convinced. The sixth step is also kind of revealing, as it says: "Deal With The Opposition".

Noah Hutchings witnessed how the church he attended, a Baptist Church in Oklahoma (USA), was transformed into a Purpose Driven Church. Before the 8 step program was implemented, the church was well-visited with about 5000 people attending the services every sunday. After it became a Purpose Driven Church, almost half of the members left and the church went into financial debt.

The message which was preached from the pullpit also changed. There was no longer a preaching from the Bible, and the "sermons" has subjects like the Ninja Turtles and other television programs. These programs were used like parables in order to "preach the Gospel", basically a message like "love your cat, be good to your dog". Nothing to do with true Christianity and the essential message of the Gospel.