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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