Dr. Rick Warren is passionate about attacking what he calls the five "Global Goliaths" - spiritual emptiness, egocentric leadership, extreme poverty, pandemic disease, and illiteracy/poor education. His goal is a second Reformation by restoring responsibility in people, credibility in churches, and civility in culture.

Focus on the Family's Mission is to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in disseminating the Gospel of Jesus Christ to as many people as possible, and, specifically, to accomplish that objective by helping to preserve traditional values and the institution of the family.

The Words website was begun in the winter of 1999, publishing the words of Jesus in a new translation by Lee Cantelon that groups Christ's words thematically. The idea was to provide access for readers to discover the ideas that are the foundations of Christianity, and to do this outside of the traditional New Testament setting, allowing access to the words of Jesus in a non-historical manner, and in a less religious context.