"In the traditional church, Christianity is seen as a religion," according to the Rev. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Valley Community Church and author of The Purpose Driven Life. Although Warren is no professor of ecclesiology (study of church), he certainly understands masses of the unchurched population and had been highly successful at reaching tens of thousands of them in southern California. He started his church in 1981 and now it is the largest in America (depending on which figures you are reading).

Warren references Jesus who had his own distaste of the religious establishment in his day. Jesus took on religious leaders with greater sagacity than he used on any other group of people. Jesus almost threw up at the sights and sounds of the religious elite. Warren states that Jesus had nothing to do with religion except he was against it.

This kind of dissatisfaction with religion goes