{"id":38471,"date":"2025-07-15T19:52:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/john-macarthur-influential-evangelical-preacher-dies-at-86\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T19:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:52:40","slug":"john-macarthur-influential-evangelical-preacher-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/john-macarthur-influential-evangelical-preacher-dies-at-86\/","title":{"rendered":"John MacArthur, influential evangelical preacher, dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Rev. John MacArthur, an influential and exacting evangelical preacher, died Monday at the age of 86.<\/p>\n<p>He led Grace Community Church in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Sun Valley for more than five decades. The church announced his death\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gracechurch.org\/news\/posts\/4230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on its website<\/a>, praising his &#8220;56 years of faithful ministry.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Tom Patton, one of the church&#8217;s pastors, told the congregation MacArthur had been hospitalized with pneumonia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even in recent years, though beset with health challenges, he persisted in teaching, leading, and investing in the ministries the Lord had entrusted to him,&#8221; the church&#8217;s statement said.<\/p>\n<p>MacArthur made news during the coronavirus pandemic for flouting Los Angeles County&#8217;s health orders by <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/la-county-grace-church-john-macarthur-covid-coronavirus-worship\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">holding indoor services<\/a><\/span> for hundreds of congregants and refusing to enforce masking and physical-distancing requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Well before then, his influence had spread far beyond Southern California, where he grew up and took the helm of his nondenominational congregation at age 29.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/15\/072409c4-1ccf-42ec-a984-72e9e61ffb01\/thumbnail\/620x403g3\/8014351b8e54c9567542c915e3e7f8cb\/ap25196606115161.jpg#\" alt=\"John MacArthur \" height=\"403\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/15\/072409c4-1ccf-42ec-a984-72e9e61ffb01\/thumbnail\/620x403g3\/8014351b8e54c9567542c915e3e7f8cb\/ap25196606115161.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/15\/072409c4-1ccf-42ec-a984-72e9e61ffb01\/thumbnail\/1240x806g3\/2971936a6f2a67995e31748b4ee0003c\/ap25196606115161.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">In this February 2011 photo provided by Liberty University, Rev. John MacArthur speaks at a convocation at the university in Lynchburg, Va.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Joel Coleman\/Liberty University via AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His Grace to You broadcast ministry circulated his theologically conservative teachings while his many books, including the popular MacArthur Study Bible, were translated into dozens of languages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His legacy as a pastor and teacher in the faith will continue to inspire many generations to come,&#8221; said Jonathan Falwell, chancellor of Liberty University, where MacArthur had given the convocation address.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in a suit and tie, he eschewed pop culture references and emotional appeals from the pulpit, even as they became mainstays of modern evangelicalism.<\/p>\n<p>His followers lauded him for his expository preaching, in which he walked them through Scripture line by line. He wanted his sermons to be timeless explanations of the Bible as he interpreted it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He could get more out of a Bible verse than anyone I&#8217;ve ever known,&#8221; evangelical leader Franklin Graham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FranklinGraham\/posts\/pfbid02CWS5mr51vYyf5Y2663THGmLHMvvp8tMneBsn6tgVhvXbsDAkKxg9xnuy5Lg9kK1Gl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote on social media<\/a>. He called MacArthur one of &#8220;America&#8217;s great Bible teachers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was &#8220;a lion of the pulpit,&#8221; wrote the Rev. Al Mohler, a Southern Baptist leader, for the evangelical\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wng.org\/opinions\/a-lion-of-the-pulpit-now-in-christs-presence-1752509961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World magazine<\/a>. &#8220;He was a preacher God used to make other preachers better preachers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MacArthur was unafraid to stir controversy for the sake of his beliefs, even deriding fellow evangelicals for what he saw as incorrect teachings and theology, including the growing charismatic wing of Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>He was an outspoken proponent of complementarianism \u2013 the belief that men and women have different roles and women should not be pastors. He publicly rebuked two influential evangelical women: the popular Bible teacher Beth Moore and the Rev. Paula White-Cain, a spiritual advisor to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>During a packed, indoor Sunday morning service at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, MacArthur told applauding congregants that they were not meeting to be rebellious, but because &#8220;our Lord has commanded us to come together and worship him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/15\/61412961-5cc4-4812-9f57-bd082c6d66f6\/thumbnail\/620x413\/62d93af2aab264cea294a139a1f64775\/ap25196537143718.jpg#\" alt=\"Obit John MacArthur \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/15\/61412961-5cc4-4812-9f57-bd082c6d66f6\/thumbnail\/620x413\/62d93af2aab264cea294a139a1f64775\/ap25196537143718.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/15\/61412961-5cc4-4812-9f57-bd082c6d66f6\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/3bf12da08985ac4ddc78a9d8f0151fce\/ap25196537143718.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Rev. John MacArthur is seen at his Los Angeles studio in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Answersingenesis.org \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The county and the church traded lawsuits, with the latter arguing the COVID-19 mandates violated their constitutional right to religious freedom. In August 2021, the county&#8217;s board of supervisors <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/los-angeles-county-400k-end-legal-battle-grace-community-church-sun-valley\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">voted to pay Grace Community Church<\/a><\/span> to settle the lawsuit \u2014 an outcome MacArthur hailed as a &#8220;monumental victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The church has also weathered allegations related to its handling of abuse allegations and its treatment of women leaving abusive marriages.<\/p>\n<p>MacArthur hailed from a long line of pastors, including his father. As part of his ministry, he helped train future church leaders through the Master&#8217;s University and the Master&#8217;s Seminary, both in Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife, Patricia, and his four adult children, Matt, Marcy, Mark and Melinda, along with 15 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. The church statement described him as a &#8220;beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather&#8221; and asked for prayers on his family&#8217;s behalf.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MacArthur had suffered from health problems in recent years, including heart and lung procedures. He spoke about his ill health in a video message to a church leadership conference earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I realize I&#8217;m on the last lap,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That takes on a new meaning when you know you&#8217;re on the short end of the candle. 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