This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today, we continue in our series called Radicalis, developing spiritual roots.

In these lessons, we'll learn how to live a life that is deeply rooted in Christ and His Word,

so that we can become all God has created us to be.

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Now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with Part 1 of a Message Called Radical Faith.

As we began a new series, I said, what the world needs is more radical Christians.

Not fanatical. We got plenty of fanatics. We don't need any more fanatics, but we need radical believers.

Not casual, but radical in the true sense of the meaning of the word radical.

That word radical is misused by most people today.

Most people think it means extreme over the top on the edge, excessive, fringe, fanatical.

But the word radical actually means from the roots. That's what it means from the roots.

It's from the Latin word radicalis, and that's what we're calling the series radicalis.

A 14th century English word that literally means from the roots.

It's from the word radics that we get the word radish. And what is a radish? It is a big root.

And when we talk about eradicating something, that means to eliminate it, you pull it up by its roots.

You eradicate it. When we talk about radical surgery, you cut it out at the root.

You cut out the disease. You don't put a bandit over it. You cut it out at the source.

So there's no root left. In botany, the word radical means the leaves closest to the root

or the radical leaves. In math, the radical in math is always the root of the equation.

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