Saddleback Church
Saddleback Church is an evangelical Christian megachurch based in Lake Forest, California, founded by Rick and Kay Warren in 1980. It operates multiple campuses in California and internationally (including Germany, East Asia, and Argentina) and provides religious services, small groups, children's and youth programming, and care ministries.www.saddleback.com
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Sep 13, 2026
Rick WarrenHOST
I have failed my kids and I love them dearly.
Rick WarrenHOST
I love you and I have failed you, members of Saddleback Church.
Rick WarrenHOST
But the Bible says God has an unfailing love.
Rick WarrenHOST
And he says, I have drawn you to myself.
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Rick WarrenHOST
That's what you do as a priest.
Rick WarrenHOST
So that through their faith in me, they will have their sins forgiven and they will receive their place, their place among God's chosen people.
Rick WarrenHOST
You know, the whole reason we started the Peace Planet Saddleback Church and sent out over 26,000 people so far, basically to be priests around the world.
Rick WarrenHOST
to promote reconciliation and plant churches, to equip ethical leaders where there's corruption, to assist the poor where there's poverty, to care for the sick where there's disease and illness, and to educate the next generation where there's illiteracy and a lack of education and ignorance.
Rick WarrenHOST
It's like I had to just try before I found out what works.
Rick WarrenHOST
One of the keys of Saddleback Church is that we're not afraid to fail.
Rick WarrenHOST
I just teach our lay leaders, our volunteers, our staff, just fail fast.
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I tell all the staff, I want you failing every week.
HamishHOST
All right, ready? Choice number six.
HamishHOST
relationship choice, okay? What is the relationship choice according to Life's Healing Choices, which is a study, by the way, for those of you who are just joining us, we're using these choices that come from Saddleback's Life's Healing Choices course, which is the baseline for Celebrate Recovery, which is a group that we're starting up.
HamishHOST
We'll talk about that in a little bit.
HamishHOST
So choice number six is relationships.
Rick WarrenHOST
I, I wanna do, you know, whatever, and you're try-- You can't make a wave, sorry.
Rick WarrenHOST
This growth, the growth of Saddleback Church, was not my business, and it was not the business of anybody else.
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It's because God is creating a wave, and we had enough people in this church who are smart enough to go, "That's the way God's going.
Rick WarrenHOST
Let's hop on that one." And we're always looking at where's the next wave? And we've catched that.
Rick WarrenHOST
All of you heard the big news last week that after founding this church 43 years ago, Kay and I are stepping aside for the next generation of leadership.
Rick WarrenHOST
And I announced it last weekend, Kay and I, uh, spoke together, and that our church had called Pastor Andy Wood to become Saddleback's new senior pastor in September.
Rick WarrenHOST
Next weekend, June 18, 19, Andy and Stacy Wood are gonna be here at all of our services, and Kay and I are gonna sit on stage and interview them, the next generation senior pastor.
Rick WarrenHOST
It's gonna be a great time, so I hope you'll come back for that.
Rick WarrenHOST
Then the following weekend, I told you I was gonna do this, June 25 and 26, I'm going to explain in detail what I'm going to be doing post-Saddleback, leading the g- global campaign called Finishing the Task.
Rick WarrenHOST
It's a campaign that I've been asked to lead for the next decade by the Finishing the Task coalition, which is already composed of about 1,600 mission agencies and denominations, and it's gonna grow exponentially from that.
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So I'm gonna be busy for the next decade.
Rick WarrenHOST
Now, in preparation for that message on finishing the task in a couple weeks, what I wanna do this weekend is do a preliminary message on misplaced priorities.
Rick WarrenHOST
You know, [laughs] I had to learn this the hard way.
Rick WarrenHOST
A- at the end of the first year of Saddleback Church, I...
Rick WarrenHOST
The first year of Saddleback, I was a workaholic.
Rick WarrenHOST
I was working about 18 to 20 hours a day getting this new church off the launchpad.
Rick WarrenHOST
It's on your screen.
Rick WarrenHOST
He says, "I will drive out those nations before you, but little by little." Notice that, little by little.
Rick WarrenHOST
He said, "You're not gonna eliminate them all at once, otherwise the wild animals would multiply and take over too quickly, and you could not handle it." In the middle of my depression the second year of Saddleback Church, God gave me that verse and an idea that I call pacing growth.
Rick WarrenHOST
God said, "I'm not gonna build this church overnight.
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Why? Because I knew how to delay the inevitable.
Rick WarrenHOST
This piece of land here in Lake Forest was not even on the map when Saddleback Church started because there was no such thing as the city of Santa Margarita and there was no such thing as the city of Ladera Ranch and nobody even mapped or petitioned this piece off.
Rick WarrenHOST
There was no Portola Parkway.
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El Toro Road was a two-lane road.
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It was no man's land.
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Nobody even knew it.
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But God, before the foundation of the earth, had planned where Saddleback Church would have its first campus.
Rick WarrenHOST
He knew.
Rick WarrenHOST
Don't tell me what I am.
Rick WarrenHOST
What I'm just explaining to you right now is what makes Saddleback Church different from thousands of other churches.
Rick WarrenHOST
Because in a lot of other churches, all they do...
Rick WarrenHOST
I've actually heard pastors say, "We just tell it like it is in this church." Well, that's lousy i- i- because it doesn't change anybody.
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Rick WarrenHOST
You can't schedule it, but you can prepare for it and pray, and at the right time, God will teach you what to say, when to say it, and how to say it.
Rick WarrenHOST
Let's bow for prayer.
Rick WarrenHOST
Father, I, I so badly want our Saddleback Church family to be filled with great communicators and great conversationalists.
Rick WarrenHOST
You have given us, your children, the greatest message in the universe, the Good News.
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just like I eat four times a day to build spiritual strength.
Rick WarrenHOST
Now here at Saddleback, we're always trying to develop tools to help you get into the word of God so you won't be a wimpy Christian, so you'll be a strong one.
Rick WarrenHOST
And I'm excited to announce two things today.
Rick WarrenHOST
One, starting this weekend, We're offering a video curriculum, small group video curriculum, based on each week's message.
Rick WarrenHOST
So I hope all of our small groups, all 6,000 of them, will go through the You Make Me Crazy series.
Rick WarrenHOST
They're going to be available Sunday afternoon every week with the questions and video that you can watch to go deeper in what we've been talking about today.
Rick WarrenHOST
Second thing, in September, we're going to unveil the Saddleback phone and tablet app.
Rick WarrenHOST
which is a Bible study app.
Rick WarrenHOST
Dios nos bendijo al enviarnos a nuestro nieto a vivir con nosotros.
Rick WarrenHOST
Él comenzó a asistir a una iglesia grande llamada Saddleback.
Rick WarrenHOST
Linda y yo comenzamos a acompañarlo para que no creyera que no éramos personas que no asisten a la iglesia.
Rick WarrenHOST
Mientras estábamos ahí, el pastor Rick comenzó a dar estos mensajes y l-los estaba entendiendo.
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