Rick Warren’s plan to “finish the task” by 2033 is to mobilize every group that claims…
Rick Warren’s plan to “finish the task” by 2033 is to mobilize every group that claims the name of Christ — Catholic, Orthodox, Pentecostal, Protestant — and count them as the Church that takes the gospel to the world.
In the Vineyard interview used in this cut, he puts the number at 2.6 billion: about 1.2 billion Catholic, 300 million Eastern Orthodox, 500 million Pentecostal or charismatic, and the rest Protestant, evangelical, and indigenous. His line is, “In order to get to every person on the planet, we’ve got to involve all these people.”
If each of those 2.6 billion shares a witness three times in ten years, he says, the world is covered. Same argument is in his Finishing the Task white paper: previous efforts failed because they left most of the Church on the sidelines, so FTT is “going after the whole Church.”
He has since said he prays with anyone who calls Jesus Lord, calls Catholic partners brothers and sisters, and treats mission — not doctrine — as the unity.
The edit sets that next to the other gospel. Dave Hunt: Rome does not hold Scripture as sufficient or inerrant; it adds tradition and papal decrees, and answers “what must I do to be saved?” with sacraments, not faith alone (Acts 16:30–31).
A Greek Orthodox priest, asked if he is sure of heaven, says he hopes so and does what he can every day. Then Galatians 1:6–7: another gospel, which is not another.
The Chosen piece is the same move in pop form — Jenkins on Catholics, Jews, Mormons, and evangelicals “loving the same Jesus,” and the claim that most of the show is not from the Bible — with Warren calling that depiction Jesus “as he really was.”