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Pastors Rick Warren and Derwin Gray celebrated University of Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh leading his team to victory in the College Football Playoff National Championship game Jan. 8.

A mass shooting incident that took place Wednesday, Aug. 23, at Cook’s Corner Bar in Trabuco Canyon, California, near Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, has left 4 people dead, including the gunman.

Saddleback Church’s founder and former senior pastor Rick Warren held a non-SBC-affiliated press conference shortly after the tallies were announced.

Standing at a microphone in front of over 12,000 messengers, Pastor Rick Warren defended his view that Saddleback Church should not be disfellowshipped from the Southern Baptist Convention.

Leading up to the SBC presidential election, candidate Mike Stone preached a message in which he accused those who advocate for women serving as pastors of supporting “theological transgenderism.”

Rick Warren posted an apology to “Christian Women” on Twitter in the lead up to his appeal for Saddleback Church to be allowed to remain in the SBC at the denomination's annual meeting this week.

Former SBC president J.D. Greear has weighed in on the controversial disfellowshipping of Saddleback Church from the denomination, a decision that Rick Warren will challenge at the SBC annual meeting next week. 

In the lead-up to the annual meeting of the SBC, Rick Warren has made it known that he will challenge the decision to disfellowship Saddleback Church, most recently in an open leader "to Southern Baptists."