Rick Warren Reveals ‘The most important thing to remember when you’re praying for someone’s healing,’ But Is It Just Made Up?

As braggart Rick Warren adjusts to the post-2023 SBC Annual Meeting, where Saddleback Church was disfellowshipped for allowing a bunch of lady “pastors,” he spends much of his days just making stuff up, such as his recent revelations on “the most important thing to remember when you’re praying for someone’s healing”

Saddleback has been the subject of a few controversies over the last few years after it was uncovered that they have several gay-affirming church leaders on staff who run a gay-affirming ministry for parents of LGBTQ+ children (the same as Andy Stanley’s North Point Church) and for having a “Blacks Only worship service” where no white members were allowed in, so the “black fold” could have a “safe space” to “heal.” They also came under fire after they blasted white Christians for having ‘no discernment’ and accusing them of not caring about black people. He recently claimed that ‘Your #1 purpose in life is to ‘let God love you.”

At a recent event, Warren, who is using a cane, explains:

The most important thing to remember when you’re praying for somebody’s healing. He told me the exact four words that were said to me by another friend that I asked the same question named John Wimber, who founded the Vineyard. John was a real close friend of mine and I asked John Wimber 10 years earlier, “John when you pray for healing, what’s the most important thing that you do? John Wimber and Oral Roberts said the exact same thing. ‘That people feel loved.’

We have no idea what Warren is talking about. Nowhere in the bible does it say this, which in a sense, is par for the course for anything to do with John Wimber. Wimber was a dangerous theological scoundrel who repeatedly lied and exaggerated his healing prowess. For example, in his book Power Evangelism, he claimed, “Today we see hundreds of people healed every month in Vineyard Christian Fellowship services … the blind see; the lame walk; the deaf hear. Cancer is disappearing!”

No it didn’t.

He also had strange, bizarre, idiosyncratic beliefs on a host of important issues, from healing to end times to the sufficiency of scripture and Pelagianism, resulting in some of the worst theology of any teacher we know. For this reason, we’ve no reason to believe that Wimber healed anyone, much less that he knew the most important thing about healing to remember, much less that this even is the most thing to remember, much less that Warren isn’t just spinning a yarn because he likes the attention.


Perhaps no single individual has done as much to stunt the spiritual growth of and sear the modern American evangelical conscience than Rick Warren. With his Peter Drucker-mentored corporatization of the church, his advocacy for purpose-driving, his Schuller-inspired, man-pleasing “gospel,” and his endless ability to taint every would-be solid minister on his way to becoming the king of dollar store, bargain-bin Christianity, Rick Warren’s career as the leader of the 25,000 members, 14 campus Saddleback Church has been nothing short of infamous. Warren’s brand of cheap, biblically-devoid, “I’m lovin’ it” Christianity has been the junk food that fattened up the American McChurch with so many empty spiritual calories, and he has been nothing if not boastful about it. 

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  2. I once heard someone tell another person that “if you aren’t going to Saddleback Church, you’re not getting into Heaven,” That was ALL I needed to hear to know about that “church” and its cult-like followers.

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