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Rick Warren answers the Davos Question (Click to watch the Google Video) |
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3 min - Jan 25, 2008 - Internationally known Pastor of
Saddleback Church talks about how the church can play a major role in global
change.
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(Transcript of above video of
Rick Warren at a Globalist Convention in Davos)
I'm Rick Warren. I am the author of "The Purpose Driven
Life" and the pastor of Saddleback Church. I am here at Davos with a lot of my friends, and we are talking about
what are the biggest problems on the planet and how we are going to solve
them. Right now I think there are five
of what I call global giants.
Extreme poverty, pandemic
diseases, illiteracy, corruption, and
the spiritual emptiness. These problems
are so big; nobody has been able to solve them. The US has not solved them, the UN has not solved them, nobody
has solved them, and I think it is because it is going to take a three-prong
strategy to do this.
There is a role for the
public sector, there is a role for the private sector and there is a role for
the faith sector. Each of them can do
something that none of the other three can do.
Government has a role to set agenda, government has a role to set priorities
and things like that, and move nations, and there are some things that only
governments can do. This is a several
role, which they have -- they bring
expertise, they bring investments, they bring all kinds of innovations to the
market, but then also houses or worship have things that businesses and
governments will never have.
In the first place, we
have universal distribution. The church
was global 200 years before Davos, when we talk about globalization. I could take you to 10 million villages around
the world and the only thing in it is a church, and we are in more locations
that the United Nations, we speak more languages than the United Nations, we
are in a thousand more people groups that the United Nations.
You see, there are 600
million Buddhists in the world, there are 800 million Hindus in the world, there
are a billion Muslims in the world, but there are 2.3 billion Christians in the
world. If you take people of faith out
of the equation, you have ruled out 5/6 of the world. So we have to mobilize these faith groups to work together on
these issues that have been unsolvable, and the church has, of course, the
greatest distribution, and they have the biggest manpower with 2.3
Billion people. That means the Christian church is bigger
than China, it is bigger than India, in fact it is bigger than India and China
put together. So nothing compares with
its size.
We have hundreds of
millions of people who volunteer around the world, in villages and cities on a
weekly basis, and we do not have to pay them.
The third thing that they have is they have local credibility, at a
local level. People trust that priest,
or that pastor, or for that matter, any imam, or a rabbi, any religious leader
of their faith, because he is burying, he is marrying, he is helping them through
the stages of life, when the crisis comes, the NGOs come and go, nations come
and go, but friends of the church have a 2,000 year track record. So I really think what we need to do here at
Davos is to work on a three-legged stool.
The problem that we have not solved these issues before is because we
have had a two-legged stool. We have
had government and business trying to work together, and that is a good
thing. But a two-legged stool will fall
over, you have to have the faith sector, you have to have the public sector,
and you have to have the private sector, and frankly, I don't care why you do
good, as long as you do good.
Your motive may be
politics, you know, I am a member on the Council of Foreign Relations, and I
learned that when you, for instance, help people get well, when they have been
unhealthy, they are like your ______ (nation?). Now, that is not my motivation for doing good, but it is not a
bad one, if you have political motivation, fine, do it. You may have a profit motivation for doing
good. You know, some businesses say we
are going to make drugs and make money at the same time, and help people. Great!
I wish more people would do that.
I wish more businesses would make more money and do more good at the
same time. It is not my motivation, but
a profit motivation is not bad. You
might have a personal motivation. Maybe
you have cancer or you had AIDS, and so you care about people with cancer and
AIDS. My motivation is that Jesus said
love your neighbors as yourself. It
does not have to be your motivation. I am
just encouraging you to get involved, do something now, about the problems of
the world.
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