In August 2006, Fox News featured a television special entitled, “Can Rick Warren Change the World?” The interview focused in part on Warren’s attempt to form a global network of churches. Together they could attack the world’s five biggest problems: poverty, disease, illiteracy, spiritual emptiness, and egocentric leadership.
Now, that’s an ambitious plan! Can one man rally that many people, that many churches, to change the world? Warren answered that question with the four words he wants written on his tombstone: “At least he tried.”
This is Howard Butt Jr. of Laity Lodge. Do not fear or discount large ambition; the greater risk is never to have tried—in the high calling of our daily work.
