Matthew Warren, 27, took
his life following a lifelong battle with mental illness, Warren and his
wife, Kay, said in the statement.
"No words can express the anguished grief we feel right now," the statement said.
In the statement, Rick
Warren said his son struggled from birth with mental illness, "dark
holes of depression, and even suicidal thoughts."
"In spite of America's
best doctors, meds, counselors, and prayers for healing, the torture of
mental illness never subsided," he wrote. "Today, after a fund evening
together with Kay and me, in a momentary wave of despair at his home, he
took his own life."
As a pioneer of the megachurch movement, Warren looked to translate traditional evangelical messages for a wider audience.
Rick Warren penned "The Purpose-Driven Life," a spiritually based self-help guide that became a mainstream best-seller
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