Why can’t I just die and end this pain?’ but he kept going for another decade,” Rick Warren wrote in the e-mail. “I’ll never forget how, many years ago, after another approach had failed to give relief, Matthew said ‘Dad, I know I’m going to heaven. The pastor gave the invocation at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration and penned “The Purpose-Driven Life,” a Christian self-help guide that became a mainstream best-seller. “We’re going to be real together about our hurts, and we’re going to be real together about the thing that only He can give us: Hope in the face of anything and everything,” Holladay said.Īs a pioneer of the megachurch movement, Rick Warren looked to translate traditional evangelical messages to a wider audience. CNN After a lifelong battle with mental illness, the youngest son of Pastor Rick Warren has committed suicide, his family said. He thanked members for coming and said that “we’re facing it as a family.” Matthew Warren’s uncle, Tom Holladay, preached at the church Saturday night. An autopsy will be conducted early next week, Aikin told CNN on Saturday.Īccording to a spokesman for Rick Warren, Matthew Warren worked in the Saddleback Resources Warehouse, which distributes books and DVDs. The coroner’s office is investigating the death. He put the estimated time of death at around 10 a.m. In spite of America’s best doctors, meds, counselors, and prayers for healing, the torture of mental illness never subsided.”Īccording to Aikin, Matthew Warren’s body was found at his home in Mission Viejo, California, late Friday afternoon. “But only those closest knew that he struggled from birth with mental illness, dark holes of depression, and even suicidal thoughts. He’d then make a bee-line to that person to engage and encourage them. He had a brilliant intellect and a gift for sensing who was most in pain or most uncomfortable in a room. “You who watched Matthew grow up knew he was an incredibly kind, gentle, and compassionate man. “No words can express the anguished grief we feel right now,” the pastor wrote in the note, a copy of which was sent to CNN. Rick Warren and his wife founded Saddleback Valley Community Church, a megachurch in Southern California. The family shared news of his death in an e-mail to church staff. Rick Warren has preached thousands upon thousands of sermons, but this message was different. Matthew Warren, 27, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on Friday, said Deputy Daniel Aikin, with the Orange County Coroner’s Office. After a lifelong battle with mental illness, the youngest son of Pastor Rick Warren has committed suicide, his family said.
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