“We were so blessed by the results that we launched a national pilot, joining with over 1,500 other churches in all 50 states to lead their people through ’40 Days of Purpose,'” Warren recounted. In addition, Saddleback members invited more than 25,000 of their neighbors to study the Bible for those six weeks. When The Purpose-Driven Life was introduced, it coincided with a six-week emphasis at Saddleback called “40 Days of Purpose.” During those 40 days, the church baptized 671 new believers, added almost 1,200 new members and increased its average attendance by 2,000. It takes the same ground-breaking concepts introduced in Warren’s 1995 best-seller “The Purpose-Driven Church” and applies them to the individual - that God wants every one to live in balance between the five purposes. The Purpose-Driven Life teaches that God created individuals with five distinct purposes in mind: worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry and missions.
“I am excited to see how God is transforming lives through this book. “But I also - in faith - believed the book could be an instrument of transformation across the nation, and then the world,” he said. “When I wrote ‘The Purpose-Driven Life,’ I had my local congregation, Saddleback Church, in mind and all of the people in Orange County, Calif.,” Warren said. Sales for the book now total more than 2.7 million copies.
Released by Zondervan in October 2002, The Purpose-Driven Life debuted on The Times best-seller list at number 14 in early January.
and he’s also the originator of the Purpose-Driven Church paradigm, a model for church health embraced by thousands of churches nationally and internationally. Warren is the pastor of one of Southern Baptists’ largest churches - Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, Calif. (BP)–It isn’t often that a pastor’s book tops a New York Times best-seller list, but that’s where Rick Warren’s “The Purpose-Driven Life” landed April 27, moving to number 1 on the hardcover advice list.
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