2017 RICK WARREN UPDATE ON PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE SALES
CLAIM
by James Sundquist, 9/12/17
I received an email from Os
Guinness (Guinness Book of Records). He spoke at Rick Warren’s
Saddleback Church. He said he teased Rick Warren that the Guinness Book
of Records sold more books than Warren’s PDL Book. He would know.
But Guinness own site states 138 million sold. They sell 2.5 million per
year. So in 2012 that figure would have been about 123 million, when
Warren had sold 32 million, when they made their claim they attributed to PW.
That is about 7 times Warren’s sales (both are nonfiction).
But even 123 million does not make the top ten.
So this is one more proof of Warren and Zondervan and
HarperCollins have committed have published false claims and false advertising.
Now for anyone
to name their book as number one, it always comes from a list. Where is
the list? All other books in top twenty, 50, or 100, lists the book and
the number as well as the ranking of everyone who is NOT number one.
Rick Warren
and his publisher Zondervan (now Harper-Collins)
claim that Publishers Weekly stated that Rick Warren’s is “the bestselling
non-fiction hardback book in history.” If this were true, Warren’s book
would appear on PW’s own website list of best selling non-fiction books in
history. PW does have such a top 25 list, here it is, and Rick Warren is
not on it!:
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/nielsen/HardcoverNonfiction.html
Secondly, note
that on that link PW and the industry at large does not use the term
“hardback”, rather they use the term “hardcover”.
For example,
you can type in Publishers Weekly site search engine any book such as Purpose
Driven Life, or Southern Baptist author Daniel Darling’s IFAITH book:
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59669-294-7
The printed
version of the review in Publishers Weekly shows the page number. In the
case of Darling’s book, page 54, and date of the PW Issue: December 13, 2010.
Go to Publishers
Weekly search engine to verify anything Publishers Weekly ever said
about any book. In other words, if a statement is made by Publishers
Weekly about a book, it is in Publishers Weekly.
One more thing
here is a statement by George Slowik, President of
Publishers Weekly regarding Rick Warren’s statement about his PDL book:
George W. Slowik, President of Publishers Weekly:
“I’ve checked
our site which includes all of our content from about 1995.
Also touched
base with our religion editors and there is no finding of a quote like
that…We don’t generally use the term hardback.” September 30, 2013 11:33:08 PM
EDT
I am trying
not to editorialize or comment on this because the facts speak for themselves.
I simply copy what Warren claims and compare it to the various lists.
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Sometime books
are fiction, but because they are based on a real character or real life story
like Ben Hur which is the story of Jesus, I include
them in non-fiction list!
Amazon.com posts the top 20
“best-selling nonfiction books of all time”.
https://www.amazon.com/b?node=11913537011
(scroll down) Rick Warren’s book is not listed in the
top twenty.
Ranker puts
Warren’s PDL book at 36:
http://www.ranker.com/list/best-selling-books-of-all-time/jeff419
James Clear’s
Best Selling books list:
http://jamesclear.com/best-books/best-selling
(Warren’s book
does not even show up)
http://list25.com/25-best-selling-books-in-history/
(No sign of
Warren’s book)
http://thegreatestbooks.org/nonfiction
Warren is not
even in the top 1,000
Amazon list
puts Rath’s Strengthfinder
book as the number one best seller, but the list does not even include Rick
Warren’s Purpose Driven Life book on their Top 20 best-selling nonfiction books
of all time
This was quite
shocking in light of the fact that Rick Warren's website as well as his
publisher post the following statement:
"Bestselling
non-fiction hardback book in history” according to Publisher’s Weekly
Sources:
http://www.purposedriven.com/books/pdlbook/#purpose (Rick
Warren’s website)
http://www.zondervan.com/the-purpose-driven-life-1 (Warren’s
publisher)
What I find
even more amazing than these facts, is that most pastors and professors and
denominations who have been promoting Warren learn of these revelations
concerning him, don’t even care about the truth, keep right on promoting him,
and even attack me.
Here is the
complete original expose on Rick Warren re this matter:
Finally, here
is the link to my original white paper report:
https://stomson2001.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/false-claims-from-the-purpose-driven-movement/
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RICK WARREN/KAGAME GLOBAL PEACE PLAN ALLIANCE
Now there are 196 countries in the world. Rick Warren identified
Purpose Driven Countries, based on his list of even potential Purpose Driven
Countries from above list, is twelve nations. 12 divided by 196 = .06 or 6% of
the world's countries that would be in Rick Warren's matrix. Again this is
assuming that every single country on his Global Peace Plan is, or has gone
Purpose Driven Country. The only country that is in reality listed as an
official PDC Country is Rwanda, which has now rejected him, and the Rwandan
Embassy in Washington D.C. Confirmed on March 16, 2017, said there is no
official connection to Rick Warren's regarding calling Rwanda a Purpose Driven
Country. Also see:
“according to AfroAmerican
Network sources in Kinshasa. ... We praise God for
the fact that Rick Warren has not been in Rwanda for
a while,”
https://www.afroamerica.net/index.php/world/598-american-pastor-rick-warren-no-longer-wanted-by-god-and-by-general-paul-kagame-in-rwanda-says-rwandan-inter-faith-head
http://glpost.com/kagame-is-left-with-four-godfathers-preacher-rick-warren-jumped-ship/
SUMMARY OF PURPOSE DRIVEN COUNTRY CALCULATIONS:
Do these figures constitute a Global Peace Plan to you?
And, like Warren's boast about his PDL book sales being the
best-selling hardback book in history, which raises the obvious question, who was second in sales, likewise, which country is
the Second Purpose Driven Country, if Rwanda is First? Fifth? 54Th? Where is there a list? If there is
such a list, it would be a list of one, at one point, but now would be zero.
The fact is that the truth and the true number of Rick Warren Purpose Driven
Countries percentage is closer to zero percent. Now
one of my close friends once told me many years ago when I was touring the
country in concert ministry when I was discouraged about concert attendance. He
had both the wisdom of being a Christian songwriter and concert minister
himself, but grew up in a legendary Gospel music singing family. I will never
forget what he said to me: “Which is better, ten thousand screaming fans, or
one whole person from your music ministry?” This edifying word of exhortation
is something I will never forget. The point here is that the Great Commission
and ministry is not a contest. The Apostle Paul rebuked Christians in
Colossians for doing this. But it is Rick Warren that has turned this into a
contest in his so-called God's dream for him and God's dream for you, with his
Global Peace Plan. So where in Scripture does it tell us that God dreams? Is
this God's Dream, or God's Nightmare? Rick Warren compares his Global Peace
Plan to Nehemiah's Wall. But Nehemiah succeeded in his
righteous act of building the wall around Jerusalem. Warren tries to call
Nehemiah's building of the wall a “vision”. Really?
Who's vision? There is nothing in the Book of Nehemiah about a
vision. The Prophets Moses, Ezekiel, Micah and Daniel had visions,
clearly recorded in Scripture as such. Nehemiah did not! Then Warren would have
us believe that God gave Nehemiah a dream (to build the wall). I challenge
everyone out there to do your own search in the Book of Nehemiah, and show me
one verse where the word “dream” even occurs, let alone that God gave Nehemiah
a dream. So not only did Rick Warren get the facts wrong about the Book of
Nehemiah, he has misappropriated what applied only to Nehemiah for himself and
applied it to the Church today! This is also highly presumptuous that his
Global Peace Plan is for the the entire church, not
just his church or Purpose Driven Network. Read the entire book for yourself.
Rick Warren wrongly presumes that his Global Peace Plan is from God. It should
be obvious at this point that it could not have been from the Lord. Warren's
wall has collapsed...total failure! Warren's wall more closely resembles the
Walls of Jericho, than it does the Nehemiah's Wall. Rick Warren is no Nehemiah.
Numbers, Numbers, Numbers as he boasts with both his book sales and number of
countries he as recruited or hopes to integrate into his Global Peace Plan! And
it has been more than a decade since he launched this Global Peace Plan, and
this is all he has to show for it? (Using his argument, not
mine!) What a track record! And what a contrast what the Macedonia's
would have had in their report on the Apostle Paul vs. Rwanda's report on Rick
Warren! And what a model for Rick Warren to call RWANDA the
“NATIONAL MODEL” for his entire GLOBAL PEACE PLAN? (This is nothing
against the nation of RWANDA or its people, but Warren's own catastrophic
failure of his own Global Peace Plan blueprints for the total of 196 nations on
the earth (the Globe)). In fact, let's look more closely at what Rwanda really
thinks about Rick Warren:
Rick Warren’s first Purpose Driven Country, Rwanda, has
virtually rejected him. See:
http://www.holybibleprophecy.org/?s=Rwanda
and
There was a story that just ran in Rwanda in September 2016,
documenting that his program there has completely collapsed.
Here is the story:
http://www.therwandan.com/blog/kagame-is-left-with-four-godfathers-preacher-rick-warren-jumped-ship/
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