Pastor Rick Warren would walk to the light wood-colored pulpit Aug. 28 to preach his last sermon as Saddleback Church’s senior pastor, a position he has held for over four decades.
“Have I told you lately that I love you?” Warren said at the beginning of the sermon.
“As you know by now today is my last message to you as your senior pastor for 43 years and it has been my message to love you, pray for you, to serve you, encourage you, to be at the bedsides, to be at the gravesides, to be in counseling when you are getting through a tough patch in your life, and to teach you,” he said….