Name: 【TED】Rick Warren: A life of purpose (A life of purpose | Rick Warren)
Uploaded: 2016-01-17T21:59:56.000Z
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I don't even consider myself to be an author.

"Why do you think so many people have read this?

This thing's selling still about a million copies a month."

And I think it's because spiritual emptiness

I think inside at some point, we put our heads down on the pillow and we go,

"There's got to be more to life than this."

Get up in the morning, go to work, come home and watch TV,

go to bed, get up in the morning, go to work, come home, watch TV, go to bed,

A lot of people say, "I'm living." No, you're not living -- that's just existing.

I really think that there's this inner desire.

I do believe what Chris said; I believe that you're not an accident.

Your parents may not have planned you, but I believe God did.

I think there are accidental parents; there's no doubt about that.

I think you matter to God; I think you matter to history;

between what I call the survival level of living, the success level of living,

Do you figure out, "What on Earth am I here for?"

I meet a lot of people who are very smart,

and say, "But why can't I figure out my problems?"

And I meet a lot of people who are very successful,

who say, "Why don't I feel more fulfilled?

Why do I feel like I've got to pretend that I'm more than I really am?"

I think that comes down to this issue of meaning, of significance, of purpose.

"Why am I here? What am I here for? Where am I going?"

I wanted to tell Michael before he spoke that I really appreciate what he does,

because it makes my life work a whole lot easier.

And I have learned that there are kooks in every area of life.

Religion doesn't have a monopoly on that,

There are secular kooks; there are smart kooks, dumb kooks.

There are people -- a lady came up to me the other day,

and she had a white piece of paper -- Michael, you'll like this one --

And I looked at it and I said, "Oh, I don't see anything."

And she goes, "Well, I see Jesus," and started crying and left.

When the book became the best-selling book in the world for the last three years,

And that was: What is the purpose of this?

Because it brought in enormous amounts of money.

When you write the best-selling book in the world,

And it brought in a lot of attention, neither of which I wanted.

When I started Saddleback Church, I was 25 years old.

I started it with one other family in 1980.

And I decided that I was never going to go on TV,

I didn't want to be a, quote, "evangelist, televangelist" --

And all of the sudden, it brought a lot of money and a lot of attention.

and I will tell you, everybody's got a worldview.

Everybody's betting their life on something.

you just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.

So, everybody's betting their life on something.

I happened to believe that Jesus was who he said he was.

you know, I had no plans to do what it's doing now.

and I started saying, now, what's the purpose of this?

And when you write a book that the first sentence of the book is,

then, when all of a sudden it becomes the best-selling book in history,

you've got to figure, well, I guess it's not about me.

And I began to think about what I call the "stewardship of affluence"

So I believe, essentially, leadership is stewardship.

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