The Purpose Driven Plan To Destroy The Fundamental Evangelical Church…

The Purpose Driven Plan To Destroy
The Fundamental Evangelical Church

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? ” Psalm 11:3
(The Emerging Church has your church in their sights)
Church Transitions, an associate of Saddleback Church in California, trains the clique initiating the change in eight published steps. The church membership is not to be informed of the transition until the fourth step. After the sixth step in the process of change, if there are some in the church who voice concerns, the following is suggested:

1. Identify those who are resisting the changes;
2. Assess the effectiveness of their opposition;
3. Befriend those who are undecided about the changes;
4. Marginalize more persistent resisters;
5. Vilify those who stay and fight; and
6. Establish new rules that will silence all resistance.

This means the church membership is not told until it is too late to make a difference. In other words, the church is stolen. Then the members either accept the changes, or leave the church, which they may have served and given to build. Dr. Rick Warren, author of “The Purpose Driven Church” and “The Purpose Driven Life” has boasted: “When you reveal the vision to the church, the old pillars are going to leave. But let them leave… they only hold things up.”
The signs that your church is targeted for a Purpose Driven Church format:
• Change in music to a contemporary rock style.
• Removal of hymn books; eliminating the choir.
• Replacement of organ and piano with heavy metal instruments.
• Repetitive singing of praise lyrics.
• Dressing down to casual and informal attire.
• Eliminating of business meetings, church committees, council of elders, board of deacons, etc.
• The pastor, or a new leader with a few assistants, usually four, takes charge of all church business.
• A repetitive 40-day Purpose Driven Church study program stressing psychological relationships with each other, the community, or the world, begins.
• Funded budgeted programs are abandoned, or ignored, with ambiguous financial reports made.
• Sunday morning, evening, and/or Wednesday prayer meetings are changed to other times; some may even be eliminated.
• Sunday School teachers are moved to different classes, or replaced by new teachers more sympathetic with the changes being implemented.
• The name “Sunday School” is dropped and classes are given new names.
• Crosses and other traditional Christian symbols may be moved from both the inside and outside of the church buildings. The pulpit may also be removed.
• In accordance with Dr. Warren’s instructions, new version Bibles are used; or only verses flashed on a screen are referenced during regular services.
• Purpose Driven Church films, purchased from Saddleback, precede or are used during regular services.
• The decor, including the carpets, may be changed to eliminate any resemblance to the former church.
• The word “church” is often taken from the name of the church, and the church may be called a “campus”. Denominational names may also be removed.
• An emphasis on more fun and party sessions for the youth.
• Elimination of altar calls or salvation invitations at the close of the services.
• The elimination of such words as “unsaved”, “lost”, “sin”, “Hell”, “Heaven” and other Gospel verities from the pastor’s messages.
• The reclassification of the saved and lost to the “churched” and the “unchurched”.
• The marginalizing, or ostracizing, of all who are not avid promoters of the new Purpose Driven Program.
• Closed meetings between the pastor or chosen staff members without any reports made to the general membership.
• Open hostility to members who do not openly embrace the new program, or who may have left for another church.