Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point (probably one of the best books I read last year) and Blink wrote an article for The New Yorker on Rick Warren and Saddleback Church.

I love Rick Warren’s attitude about the local church:

“There is only one thing big enough to handle the world’s problems, and that is the millions and millions of churches spread out around the world.”

He also talks about the things he has learned from the success of his book, The Purpose Driven Life.  Influence and wealth are to be used to speak up for those who have no voice, for those who have no influence - those who have been marginalized. 

Rick Warren spoke this last year at Willow Creek’s Leadership Summit and said that he has donated all the proceeds from The Purpose Driven Life to organizations fighting AIDS/HIV in Africa.  That’s a pretty significant amount of money considering the book has sold more than 33 million copies.  That puts it as one of the all time best sellers. 

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