Rick Warren, the retired founding pastor of Saddleback Church, called for the reinstatement of the SoCal megachurch in an impassioned address at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Retired pastor Rick Warren, author of the publishing phenomenon, "The Purpose Driven Life," is trying to get the Southern Baptist Convention to reverse its ouster of the Lake Forest-based megachurch he founded, Saddleback Church, for having women pastors.
The more than 12,700 messengers, or church representatives, voted by ballot on whether to uphold the decision by the denomination's Executive Committee in February to deem the two churches not in friendly cooperation.Saddleback Church is the largest church in California and one of the largest in the nation. It was founded more than 40 years ago and has grown to have several campuses in California and around the world.
Those actions prompted some to call for Saddleback's ouster. The denomination's statement of faith, the Baptist Faith and Message, says that while "men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture."
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