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...Over the last four years, Warren has "beta-tested" his plan by sending almost 8,000 members of his own 22,000-member Saddleback Church congregation, and an undetermined number from 12 other congregations, to work in 68 nations. The flagship project has been in Rwanda, whose President, Paul Kagame, has declared his intention to make his country the world's first "Purpose-Driven Nation...
...last week's conference increases the number of participant congregations in the PEACE plan from 12 to 1,200 - a reasonable estimate, given that 1,700 pastors were in attendance and many actually head networks of congregations - then the number of PEACE missionaries would jump from roughly 2,000 a year to 200,000, vaulting the network to the forefront of the missionary field. Nor has Warren confined his invitation to those pastors in attendance. He is sending DVDs to the 30,000 churches that have participated in his rigorous "40 Days of Purpose" programs. And it was streamed from...
...Despite being offered few details of the plan, the response of the pastors was enthusiastic. Not that it surprised Warren. "These are people who have been with me for a long time," he told TIME. "I knew they were already on board. It wasn't like they had come here to hear me persuade them to start. I was giving permission for them to start." His plan also carries an impressive sheaf of endorsements: from Billy Graham ("the greatest, most comprehensive and most biblical vision for world missions I've ever heard or read about."), President George W. and First...
...There was a peculiar offhandedness to the way Warren invited the conference, at the very end of the proceedings, to join his coalition - an approach that may reflect concern about getting drawn too deeply into the specifics of a plan that promises to be extremely complicated and possibly controversial. The PEACE program is an attempt to radically re-engineer Evangelicalism's huge missionary culture, connecting individual churches in the U.S. to congregations in target countries rather than funneling aid and evangelism through agencies that send trained professionals into the field. One of the coalition's theoretical benefits would be efficiency...
...Warren seems intent on tamping down expectations of speedy results from his ambitious project - a desire that runs somewhat counter to his inborn salesman's instinct. "This plan could take 50 years, so it might not be completed in my lifetime," he said at one point. "That's why I call the next generation the reformation generation...