Churches across the country are currently immersed in Rick Warren’s latest 40+ day campaign called Life’s Healing Choices. Using the Beatitudes of Jesus as a foundation, Rick Warren and Celebrate Recovery founder John Baker, developed the eight choices shared in Baker’s book, Life’s Healing Choices.

From Rick Warren’s blog:

“every single person – as a member of the human race – deals with a hurt, hang-up, or habit at some level, in some form. That’s why we’re launching a national journey to spiritual renewal this fall. Life’s Healing Choices is a new church wide study of eight principles from the Beatitudes. These are the principles Jesus gave us for finding true, godly happiness and healing.”

Rick Warren’s blog post also infers the insufficiency of scriptural preaching of God’s Word:

The multiple reinforcements you will receive in Life’s Healing Choices are what will make this experience so special. I discovered a long time ago that just talking about something isn’t good enough. Sermons will inform, but it takes multiple reinforcements to transform. The truth is, we all learn in different ways. This campaign will help your people learn the eight transforming principles through a variety of fresh, experiential encounters.

Warren reveals his theological understanding of Matthew Chapter 5 in Life’s Healing Choices magazine:

“Jesus began his most famous sermon the Sermon On The Mount by identifying eight ways to happiness. Each of these eight “healing choices” called The Beatitudes begins with the word blessed…Hapiness is a choice, and the Beatitudes are the habits of happiness…you are as happy as you choose to be.”

Compare Rick Warren’s exposition on the Beatitudes with Charles Spurgeon and Dr. Steve Lawson at the Watcher’s Lamp.