More Than a Purpose, an Evangelical Response to Rick Warren And the Megachurch Movement - Softcover

Davis, Marshall

9781414106632: More Than a Purpose, an Evangelical Response to Rick Warren And the Megachurch Movement

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1414106637 ISBN 13: 9781414106632

Publisher: Pleasant Word, 2006

Are you dissatisfied with The Purpose Driven� Life? Have you read Rick Warren's bestseller and wondered, "Is that all there is?" If you feel like something is missing from Rick Warren's best-selling books, The Purpose Driven� Life and The Purpose Driven� Church, you are not alone. Evangelical leaders are beginning to voice their concerns about the seeker-sensitive model of ministry. In More Than a Purpose, Dr. Marshall Davis � Documents what evangelical leaders are saying about the megachurch movement. � Explores the origins of Rick Warren's approach in the Church Growth Movement and Robert Schuller's gospel of self-esteem. � Examines the theology of Warren's Saddleback Church and finds that it falls short of historic Christianity. � Exposes the market-driven methodology and philosophical pragmatism of The Purpose Driven� Church. � Shows how the entertainment model of worship has taken over evangelical churches. � Reveals how New Age spirituality has influenced the beliefs and the practices of The Purpose Driven� Life. � Challenges Christians to recover the essentials of evangelical Christianity that will restore integrity to the twenty-first century church Dr. Marshall Davis is an ordained Baptist minister with thirty years of experience as a pastor. He holds advanced degrees from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. He presently serves as a pastor in western Pennsylvania.

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Review:

Rick Warren is pastor of the largest Baptist church in the United States and author of the international best sellers The Purpose-Driven Life and The Purpose-Driven Church. Marshall Davis is pastor of a small Baptist church near Pittsburgh and this is his first book, setting up a "Davis vs. Goliath" confrontation.
Mr. Davis contends that the Gospel presented by Mr. Warren is deficient. "In Warrenism there is no genuine commitment to Christ because the genuine Christ has not been preached and the way of salvation has not been explained." The teaching of Rick Warren, Mr. Davis asserts, is "Gospel lite: tastes great, less filling."
Such assertions might draw a debate, especially from the millions worldwide who testify to the positive effect of reading the Warren books, but this next observation will be met with a chorus of amens: "The American Christian has gone from being a disciple to being a customer, from being a follower of the Lord Jesus to being a consumer of a spiritual commodity." In this new marketplace, Mr. Davis says, entertainment has replaced worship in the public gatherings of Christians.
The antidote, he contends, is a fresh attention to evangelism, worship, theology and ethics. It's a good read on a timely subject.

- Book Review, Dallas Morning News

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