Warren, Rick. The Purpose-Driven Church: Growth without compromising your message and mission. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995. 399 pages. $25.00IntroductionRick Warren is a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Senior Pastor of Saddleback Community Church located in Orange County in the City of Lake Forest, California. Saddleback began as a Bible study, in Warren's condominium with seven people in attendance in 1980, later growing to fifteen people. Its first service began on Easter Sunday on April 6, 1980 with 205 people in attendance, and it is now one of the fastest growing churches in American history. Summary In this book, Rick Warren explains how to become a growth-driven church without compromising your biblical message and mission or New Testament church doctrine in five main parts: Seeing the Big Picture, Becoming a Church purpose-driven, reach out to your community, draw a crowd, and build the church. Within these five main parts of the book, the author addresses several subcategories. The first part covers the history of Saddleback and myths about church growth. Part two addresses the question of what motivates the church, the foundation of a healthy church, setting your goals, communicating your goals, organizing around your goals, and implementing your goals. Part three covers who your target is, knowing who you can best reach, and developing your strategy. Part four explains how Jesus drew crowds, that worship can be a testimony, designing a service sensitive to the seeker, selecting your music, and preaching to unbelievers. The fifth part addresses the congregation by transforming participants into members, in the middle of the document...... pose-oriented churches are built on the eternal purposes of God (83) found in the Word of God. The writer found this book very beneficial and insightful. The book provides a clear perspective of the author's life and Saddleback Community Church with practical, proven resources, materials, and principles that can be helpful to other churches and their ministries. The book also contains a strong biblical and theological foundation, as it models its principle of a purpose-driven church on the New Testament church. This book also proves to be of immense importance for the writer and his future ministry. The assigned calling that God has placed on the writer's life is to plant a church and serve as its senior pastor. Therefore, this book has proven to be a good resource in theory, practice and use for the writer..