After 169 years, Spurgeon’s College has shut its doors. The official reason given is financial strain, but let’s not act like we didn’t know this was coming. This wasn’t a spreadsheet accident. It was a self-inflicted wound, an institutional suicide stunt.

And Rick Warren held the golden blade.

In a statement on their website, the school stated:

In recent months, the College partnered with a charitable foundation that provided vital financial support and offered assurances to both the College and the Office for Students of continued funding. However, this relationship was, without warning, unexpectedly terminated on 21 July 2025. As a result, the College can no longer sustain its financial operations and has been left with no choice but to enter the insolvency process immediately.

Back in 2023, Spurgeon’s College made the surprising decision to install Warren as its first “honorary chancellor.” This is the same Rick Warren who built his empire on “Purpose Driven” drivel, where the gospel takes a backseat to marketing slogans and self-help pop psychology.

The same Warren who openly boasted female pastors in raw defiance of Scripture.

The same Warren who calls the Pope “Holy Father” and treats Rome like a trusted partner rather than a wolf at the door.

The College justified the move with the claim that Warren’s great-great-grandfather studied under Spurgeon himself. It’s like saying Judas deserves a chair at the Last Supper because one of his cousins once fished on the same lake as Peter.

From the moment Warren put on the ceremonial hood, the writing was on the wall. A school once devoted to training gospel preachers had chosen celebrity relevance over biblical fidelity. They traded the steel of conviction for the Barbie plastic of popularity, and the result was inevitable.

Spurgeon himself warned that fellowship with error is sin. His successors ignored him, giving a false teacher a platform under his name. They thought they were securing prestige. What they bought instead was a gravestone.

To completely grasp what happened, understand that Rick Warren didn’t mismanage Spurgeon’s College. His position was ceremonial and he didn’t actually participate in the day-to-day management of the school. But it was his name, and his name alone, that poisoned the College’s legacy and hastened its collapse. Rick Warren simply presided over its burial.

The trustees crowned a wolf and then wondered why the sheep disappeared. They thought the title “honorary chancellor” would boost their standing. Instead, it became their epitaph.

Spurgeon’s College didn’t close because it lacked students, even though it did lack students. The real reason it closed is that it lacked the gospel. And when a Christian institution abandons truth for relevance, there’s only one outcome. Collapse.

Let the record show that the cause of death was self‑inflicted compromise. The weapon was an honorary golden crown. The perpetrators were Rick Warren and the trustees who handed him the keys.

The motive was relevance at any cost—and the cost was everything.