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It was all we could do to sit him down and ask him a few questions! (<a href=\"http:\/\/guideposts.org\/video\/stories-of-faith\/rick-warren-the-purpose-driven-life-updated\">Watch the video here.<\/a>) One of the things we did want to ask him was about people pleasing. Because, as he was quick to remind us, it\u2019s one thing to like people and reach out to them, looking for common links; it\u2019s another to feel you must please everyone else but God. That\u2019s a topic he takes so seriously he\u2019s added it to the new revised, tenth-anniversary edition of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/031032906X\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=031032906X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=guidepostsonline\">The Purpose-Driven Life<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As he puts it, people pleasing is a way of saying, \u201cI must be liked by you to be happy.\u201d Think how dangerous that can be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dark side of the desire for approval is the fear of disapproval,\u201d he writes. \u201cAfter talking with people living in over a hundred different countries, I have come to believe that fear of being criticized or rejected by others is the most common reason people get detoured from the path God planned for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I had to wonder if Rick Warren ever had his own struggle with people pleasing. Indeed he did, the first year he started Saddleback Church, trying to be everything to everyone, and it nearly did him in. This is back when Saddleback had only 150 members. Today it has more than 30,000. Can you imagine being a people pleaser for all of them?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo person has the ability to give you all the security, approval, acceptance and love you need, regardless of what they may promise you,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you expect them to meet needs that only God can meet, you are being unfair to them, you are setting them up for failure and you are setting yourself up to become bitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul put it this way in his letter to the Galatians: \u201cI\u2019m not trying to win the approval of people but of God. If pleasing people were my goal I would not be Christ\u2019s servant.\u201d Or in his letter to the Thessalonians: \u201cOur purpose is to please God, not people. 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