CNLP 754 | Rick Warren on What 99% of Churches Don't Do, The Rise of the Global Church, and the Call American Churches Need to Hear
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Rick Warren returns to the podcast to explain what 99% of churches don't do.
He discusses the extraordinary rise of the global church and how it's outpacing population growth, and he outlines the call from Jesus every American church needs to hear.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:02.9 | If you don't get anything else, I want you to get this. |
| 0:05.3 | The whole business of Christianity and church and disciple making is moving people from |
| 0:12.0 | come and see to come and die. |
| 0:14.7 | 99% of all the churches in the world have no plan to do that. |
| 0:22.9 | Welcome to the Keri Ne Newhoff Leadership Podcast. It's Carrie here, and I hope our time |
| 0:26.5 | together today helps you thrive in life and leadership. Well, today, Rick Warren is back |
| 0:31.9 | on the podcast, had him on a couple years ago, when he was still the lead pastor of Saddleback. |
| 0:37.2 | Today, you get a rare glimpse of |
| 0:40.1 | Rick pretty much uncut uh man I'll tell you it's a different kind of interview and he talks about |
| 0:45.8 | what 99% of churches don't do the rise of the global church and the call American churches |
| 0:51.7 | need to hear so a little note before we get started I think you all who Rick is. I'll give you his bio in just a minute. But today's episode, a little bit longer than usual. But that's because when you sit down with Rick, you don't get sound bites. If you really, you know, he's on major media or that kind of thing or social media, you get like short clips and everything like |
| 1:11.3 | that. When you really get to know Rick, you don't get sound bites, you get a fire hose of wisdom. |
| 1:16.6 | So you're going to hear fewer questions in this podcast. More Rick Warren, uncut, unfiltered. |
| 1:22.9 | I wanted to keep the depth of this interview intact. So I think you're really going to appreciate it as we go |
| 1:28.3 | along. And he's right about what 99% of churches don't do. So a Time magazine cover named Rick Warren, |
| 1:35.7 | the most influential spiritual leader in America and one of the most influential people. |
| 1:40.7 | Tens of millions of copies of Rick's books have been published in 200 languages. |
| 1:44.9 | The purpose-driven life and the purpose-driven church were named three times in national |
| 1:49.4 | surveys of pastors as two of the most helpful books in print. Rick and his wife Kay founded |
| 1:54.8 | Saddleback Church, the purpose-driven network, the peace plan, and hope for mental health. He is the |
| 1:59.8 | co-founder of Celebrate Recovery, |
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