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Our calling as gospel ministers is to preach the truth, confront sin, and call all men to repentance and obedience to the gospel - the good news that achieves soul conversion and saves sinners from eternal wrath.
— John MacArthur
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John MacArthur
non-fiction writer, radio personality, Protestant theologian, pastor, writer, theologian
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1939 – 2025
John Fullerton MacArthur Jr. was an American Calvinist Baptist pastor, theologian, author, and broadcaster. He was the founder of Grace to You, a nationally syndicated radio and television Bible teaching program. He was also the longtime pastor of Grace Community Church, a non-denominational church in Sun Valley, California from 1969 until his death in 2025. Additionally, MacArthur served as the chancellor emeritus of The Master's University and The Master's Seminary, both based in Santa Clarita, California.
All Quotes by John MacArthur
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Not only are individual churches very often divided, cantankerous, full of factions, animosity and anger but it seems to me that the entire evangelical church is like that - fragmented, split up, hostile, even angry. This is a far cry from what our Lord desired when He said the world would know us by our love.
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Christianity advances whether there is religious freedom or not.
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Freedom of speech, for us, is to preach the truth of Christ even when society says it's against the law.
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Religious freedom is what sends people to Hell.
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The Gospel offends the sinner and seeks to break the sinner's comfort and contentment by bringing him into stark realization of the eternal judgement of God.
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Weak men make everybody vulnerable to danger.
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God has established three institutions within human society: the family, the state, and the church. Each institution has a sphere of authority with jurisdictional limits that must be respected.
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There were some things that settled into my heart very early into my life and ministry... The two most dominant realities that captivated my heart very early in my Christian experience were the authority of Scripture and the necessity of holiness.
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A father's authority is limited to his own family.
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No Christian with half a brain would say 'we support religious freedom.'
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I wouldn't fight for religious freedom because I won't fight for idolatry. Why would I fight for the devil to have as many false religions as possible and all of them to be available to everyone?
— John MacArthur