Researcher Warren Bird, president of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, previously told The Christian Post that as the COVID-19 pandemic fades away, the churches that “do small groups well” will most likely be “stronger” than those that do not. You wear a mask for love your neighbors, yourself.” I’m not doing this out of fear I’m doing this out of love. “The good shepherd prays for his sheep, cares for his sheep. Suggesting that “some churches are willing to gamble the health of their people,” Warren said he is not. “They might have a discrimination case if theaters weren’t closed, football games weren’t closed. Though California's strict limits on church attendance during the pandemic have angered churches across the state, Warren stressed that he doesn’t believe places of worship are being discriminated against. “Of those 16,000 people who have come to Christ, over 12,000 of them have come through personal, one-on-one witnessing by my members. When people would pull up they’d talk to them about the Lord.”
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Those people already know how to share their faith. “We teach our people that every member of the church is a minister,” Warren said. “For instance, the first one was food,” Warren said, adding that Saddleback partnered with every school district in Orange County to develop “food pantry pop-ups.” Now, the church is the largest food distributor in Southern California,” having served over 3.5 million pounds of food to over 300,000 families. When the pandemic first hit, Saddleback’s leadership “looked around and made a list of all the different problems that COVID was creating,” and then met those needs. In fact, Saddleback's seen over 16,000 people come to Christ since March - and is continuing to see about 80 new conversions a day. Those all stand on their own.”Īs a result, removing worship didn’t shut the church down, The Purpose Driven Life author contended. “You take one circle out, we’ve still got four other circles. They’re in a hurry to get back to worship because that’s all they’ve got.”īut the 20,000-member Saddleback Church is built not on one purpose, but on five,” Warren explained. And if you take worship away, you’ve got nothing. “Most churches only have one purpose: worship. “COVID revealed a fundamental weakness in the Church,” the pastor recently told Relevant magazine in an interview. are scrambling in the wake of COVID-19 because they’ve focused solely on worship instead of other aspects of ministry, Pastor Rick Warren of the California-based Saddleback Church has said. Warren, who has more than 11 million social media followers, has written multiple books, including “The Purpose Driven Life.” In 2005, Time magazine named Warren one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World.Many churches across the U.S. There are four international campuses, in Hong Kong, Germany, the Philippines and Argentina. With its main campus in Lake Forest, south of Los Angeles, Saddleback Church has grown to 14 locations in Southern California with an average weekly attendance of 30,000.
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Warren said then that he was offered a series of jobs with Christian organizations, seminaries and denominations, but never moved. “Kay and I made this crazy promise when we were 25 years old that we would give 40 years to one location, that we wouldn’t move and that we wouldn’t be tempted to go to another church,” Warren said before preaching his 40th Easter service in 2019. Warren declined to speak about his retirement plans on Monday.
There is no timeline for the search, which will look at candidates both within and outside the church. He said he will then step back into a less “visible position as founding pastor.” Warren, 67, said he will continue to serve as lead pastor until a successor is in place. The well-known evangelical pastor and best-selling author told his congregation on Sunday that the search is not the end but the “beginning of the beginning,” The Orange County Register reported Monday. A search for his successor will be launched this week. Megachurch pastor Rick Warren has announced his retirement after 42 years of leading Saddleback Church in Southern California.
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