Warren’s megachurch model became a paradigm for other church leaders. Time magazine flashed his face across its cover.
He interviewed national leaders like George Bush and John McCain, spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and hosted Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the Lake Forest campus. except the Bible, according to Tanya Luhrmann, an anthropology professor at Stanford who has written about American evangelicals. While leading his church, Warren achieved influence in other ways: he became a bestselling author of “The Purpose Driven Life,” a book that sold more hard copies than any other in the U.S. Over 30,000 tune in each week to hear Warren speak. He gave the invocation at President Obama’s inauguration in 2009. What began as Rick and Kay Warren’s home Bible study exploded to over a dozen campuses in California - including the 120-acre main campus in Lake Forest - as well as churches in Argentina, Hong Kong, Germany and the Philippines. It’s really just a gift.Įnjoyed that? Read Tom's answers to your questions in every print issue of Premier Christianity magazine. Subscribe now for £4.Over the next few decades, Warren transformed his church into a behemoth of evangelical Christianity. Of course, we must resist any kind of elitism that says “they’re the real deal and the rest of us are just playing around”. We won’t stop loving in God’s new creation, but there are all sorts of things we won’t need to do any more and speaking in tongues will be one of them.īut for now, speaking in tongues is an important reality for many Christians. He’s contrasting that with love, which will be all the more important in God’s new creation. In fact, in that passage he’s actually talking about the ultimate future, and that in the present there are all sorts of gifts which won’t be necessary in the future. Again, that goes back to 1 Corinthians 13, where Paul says where there have been tongues, “they shall cease” (KJV), but he doesn’t actually say when. Some parts of the Church take a ‘cessationist’ view – that the gift of tongues ended with the closure of scripture. Many, many times, when I have needed to pray into a particular situation, but had no idea of what I should be praying for, the use of tongues in private prayer has enabled me to hold people in situations within the love of God. I’ve never exercised this gift in public, and I’ve no particular desire to, but my cousin was absolutely right. I was very startled.this wasn’t supposed to happen! And she said: “Well, it may be that God will give you a gift like the gift of tongues.” She prayed with me and, the next thing I knew, I was praying in tongues. I remember sharing this with a cousin of mine who was, in a quiet way, a charismatic Christian.
I thought I wouldn’t have a clue what to say to them. The thought of suddenly being plunged into a vivid little community where there were hundreds of people who would come to me for spiritual counsel and help was daunting. I was quite nervous about it, because I had been in academic work for several years. In 1986, I was leaving my teaching post in Montreal to come back to Oxford as a college chaplain as well as a university lecturer. Summer reading guide: 18 books to add to your list.Freedom in Christ founder Neil T Anderson on spiritual warfare, mental health and the end times.Wes Streeting MP: ‘My faith made it very difficult to accept my sexuality’.
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