Last month, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Al Mohler criticized Saddleback after it ordained three women as pastors. Several months ago, he apologized for Saddleback’s children’s Sunday school curriculum video which used Asian culture stereotypes to teach kids about the Bible. But he faced controversy after praying at Obama’s 2008 inauguration after he campaigned against same sex marriage that same election cycle. Overall, Warren’s ministry has not been as polemical as many of his fellow Southern Baptist church leaders. After his son died of suicide in 2013, he and his wife Kay began a mental health ministry. He championed evangelicals fighting AIDS overseas. He is the author of the best-selling The Purpose Driven Life. Warren’s ministry has had national and international significance. The Southern California-based megachurch has begun looking for Warren’s successor. I don’t deserve any of it, and so this next transition in my life is something I am anticipating with zero regrets, zero fears, zero worries.”
… God has already blessed me more than I could ever possibly imagine. … We’re going to take one step at a time in the timing of God. “This is not the end of my ministry,” Warren told his congregants on Sunday. You can listen to Pastor Rick’s Daily Hope, his daily 25-minute audio teaching, or sign up for his free daily devotionals at more than 40 years leading Saddleback Church, Rick Warren has announced his retirement. Pastor Rick also founded the Global PEACE Plan, which Plants churches of reconciliation, Equips leaders, Assists the poor, Cares for the sick, and Educates the next generation in 196 countries. As a global strategist, he advises world leaders and has spoken to the United Nations, US Congress, Davos Economic Forum, TED, Aspen Institute, and numerous parliaments. As a theologian, he has lectured at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, University of Judaism, and dozens of universities and seminaries. It has been translated into 90 languages and sold more than 50 million copies in multiple formats. As an author, his book The Purpose Driven Life is one of the best-selling nonfiction books in publishing history. Rick Warren leads a 30,000-member congregation in California with campuses in major cities around the world. As founding pastor of Saddleback Church with his wife Kay, Dr.
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