However, none of this is at the expense of the home front; an interview from the Religion News Service notes that he is also planning a "40 Days of Purpose" event for New York City. Says Warren:

The idea behind "40 Days of Purpose" is that the pastor teaches on it so you hear it, then you read about it every day, then you discuss it in a small group and then you memorize a Bible verse about it and then you do a project with a group of other people.

By (using those) five ways, we find that people's spiritual maturity was growing a whole lot faster than if I just taught a series of messages on it. That was the idea of multiple reinforcement.

(Since 2002,) 31,000 churches in America -- 31,000! -- have done "40 Days of Purpose." That's one out of every 10 churches in America. Two thousand churches in the Philippines, 1,000 in Australia, about 800 in the United Kingdom. A group of churches said, "Why don't we do this together as a city?"

At Talk to Action, Bill Berkowitz has discussed Warren and the "PEACE Plan" at some length here, while Fred Clarkson has expressed some scepticism towards Warren's reputation as a moderate. Meanwhile, a recent article by Jeff Sharlet, derived from his book The Family, places Warren's Purpose-Driven Life book (described as a "spiritual time-management manual") in the wider context of "lifestyle fundamentalism". Jeff tells us that "as of April 2008", Warren is "the official sponsor of Rwanda".