Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Is Purpose-Driven Life leading the majority of the Christian church down a path that leads to New Age deception? What do New Age leaders, who believe all paths lead to God, have in common with Purpose-Driven Life? Are the details of biblical prophecy and Jesus' return our business? Not according to Rick Warren, but what does Scripture say? What is Rick Warren's "Global Peace Plan" really all about?

1. The purpose-driven life -- New Age update -- Hopefully a Berean attitude -- Meant to be? -- Testing the spirits -- 2. The message and my 1994 radio warning -- 3. What message? -- Ancient Egypt and oneness -- So what? -- Seeker friendly? -- 4. The kindly Christian widow -- No legitimate reason? -- 5. Enter Robert Schuller -- Gerald Jampolsky -- Marianne Williamson -- Neale Donald Walsch -- Bernie Siegel -- Why Siegel? -- Isaiah and Job without purpose? -- The hope and purpose of Robert Schuller -- Hoping and coping back in 1982 -- New Age praise for Robert Schuller -- 6. The New age PEACE plan -- The Jabez temptation? -- Robert Schuller and the new spirituality -- The Crystal Cathedral and a course in miracles -- 7. What force drives your life? -- The New Age force -- 8. God is in everything? -- Purpose driven course in miracles -- Oneness with the New Age? -- Doctrinal leaven -- Time to revisit Schuller and Jampolsky -- 9. Robert Schuller and Jerry Jampolsky -- Schuller's "dear friend" Jerry Jampolsky -- Schuller and Jampolsky did workshops together? -- But there's more to the story -- Schuller and Jampolsky today -- Schuller and the church growth movement -- Another New Age testimony for Robert Schuller -- 10. Robert Schuller and Rick Warren -- More Schuller material -- Other similarities in quotes and citations -- more examples of Schuller material -- Think globally -- Mentally soaked by Robert Schuller? -- 11. God's dream? -- Achieving the big dream -- The "dream coach' -- Bruce Wilkinson on the Hour of Power -- Bruce Wilkinson at Saddleback Church -- God's dream for our self-esteem? -- Man of the hour -- 12. Rick Warren's P.E.A.C.E. plan -- The P.E.A.C.E. plan unveiled -- "I don't understand it all, but count me in" -- Something is not right -- Small groups for a false peace -- Whose PEACE plan? -- 13. Deceived about deception -- Details of Jesus' return are definitely our business -- Purpose as a ploy -- Be prepared for the worst-case scenario -- 14. False Christ with a purpose -- Overlapping "purposes" -- Immanence: The "God" within -- "Master Jesus" and the New Reformation -- Persecution through the "selection process" -- 15 Contend for the faith -- more than a little leaven -- Not going back to the New Age -- It is not too late -- Ask God for wisdom.