John F. Macarthur Biography
John F. Macarthur born John Fullerton MacArthur Jr. is an American pastor and author known for his internationally syndicated Christian teaching radio program Grace to You. He has been the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, since February 9, 1969.
John F. Macarthur Age
John was born on June 19, 1939, Los Angeles, CA. He is 80 years as of 2019.
John F. Macarthur ImageJohn F. Macarthur Wife
MacArthur is married to his wife, Patricia and together they have four children, Matt, Marcy, Mark, and Melinda and fifteen grandchildren.
John F. Macarthur Quotes
“Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.”
“You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.”
“The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.”
“We should not be entertained by the sins for which Christ died.”
“Prayer is not an attempt to get God to agree with you or provide for your selfish desires, but that it is both an affirmation of His sovereignty, righteousness, and majesty and an exercise to conform your desires and purposes to His will and Glory”
“If I’m not showing grace . . . have I forgotten the grace I’ve been shown?”
“Scripture does what psychoanalysis can’t do-it pierces the heart, penetrates deep into the soul and judges the motives. To see yourself in the light of Scripture, is to see yourself as you really are.”
“People act what they truly believe.”
“What you cant forget… God cant remember!”
“Contrary to popular opinion, the most important characteristic of a godly mother is not her relationship with her children. It is her love for her husband. The love between husband and wife is the real key to a thriving family. A healthy home environment cannot be built exclusively on the parents’ love for their children. The properly situated family has marriage at the center; families shouldn’t revolve around the children.”
“Jesus Christ is not just ‘my personal Savior’. He is Lord.”
“The cross is proof of both the immense love of God and the profound wickedness of sin.”
“Christ’s atonement fully satisfied the demands of God’s righteousness, so forgiveness and mercy are guaranteed to those who receive Christ in humble, repentant faith.”
“It wasn’t a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.”
“He that lacks assurance of God’s love, converses too much with Satan”
“When believers have a low view of God, everything focuses on meeting felt needs within the body of Christ. When the church adopts such a perspective, it often offers people nothing more than spiritual placebos. It centers on psychology, self-esteem, entertainment, and a myriad of other diversions to attempt to meet perceived and felt needs.”
“Prayer is the spontaneous response of the believing heart to God. Those truly transformed by Jesus Christ find themselves lost in wonder and joy of communion with Him. Prayer is as natural for the Christian as breathing”
“The Lord accomplishes great things through weak people…What is required of His people is an obedient spirit, not a roster of tremendous gifts and abilities.”
“If I could simplify the Christian life to one thing, it would be obedience.”
“Without a proper view of God there cannot exist a proper view of man.”
“A true Christian does not see God’s promise of forgiveness as a license to sin, a way to abuse His love and presume on His grace. Rather, he sees God’s gracious forgiveness as the means to spiritual growth and sanctification. He continually thanks God for His great love and willingness to forgive.”
“We are not heard for our many words, but for the cry of our hearts.”
“Adam was refined dirt; Eve was a glorious refinement of humanity itself. -John MacArthur, Twelve Extraordinary Women”
“Because ours is such a free and prosperous society, it is easier for Christians to feel secure by presuming on instead of depending on God’s grace. Too many believers become satisfied with physical blessings and have little desire for spiritual blessings.”
John F. Macarthur Books
2013- Strange Fire: The Danger of Offending the Holy Spirit with Counterfeit Worship
1988-The Gospel according to Jesus
2005-Doce mujeres extraordinarias
2002-Doce Hombres
1981-The Fulfilled Family
1983-Santiago-HC: MacArthur New Testament Commentary
1992-Charismatic Chaos
2013-One Perfect Life: The Complete Story of the Lord Jesus
1996-La gloria del cielo
2001-Battle For The Beginning
2007-The Truth War
2004-The Book on Leadership
1993-Avergonzados del evangelio: Ashamed of the Gospel
2010-Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ
2007-Because the Time is Near
1985-How to Study the Bible
1977-Found: God’s Will
2005-The MacArthur Bible Commentary
1995-Alone with God: Rediscovering the Power and Passion of Prayer
1992-Saved Without a Doubt
1991-Our sufficiency in Christ
2018-The Gospel According to God: Rediscovering the Most Remarkable Chapter in the Old Testament
2000-Asesinato de Jesus, el
1993-The Gospel According to the Apostles
2011-At the Throne of Grace: A Book of Prayers
2000-Romans: Grace, Truth, and Redemption
2008-A Tale of Two Sons Study Guide
2017-The Gospel According to Paul: Embracing the Good News at the Heart of Paul’s Teachings
2009-The Jesus You Can’t Ignore: What You Must Learn from the Bold Confrontations of Christ
1998-The freedom and power of forgiveness
2003-The MacArthur Bible Handbook
2010-Called to Lead: 26 Leadership Lessons from the Life of the Apostle Paul
2003-Safe in the Arms of God: Truth from Heaven About the Death of a Child
2017-None Other: Discovering the God of the Bible
1980-Why Believe the Bible?
1998-Successful Christian parenting
1991-El Plan Del Senor Para La Iglesia
2012-Twelve Unlikely Heroes: How God Commissioned Unexpected People in the Bible and What He Wants to Do with You John
2008-Daily readings from the life of Christ
1983-The ultimate priority
2000-Whose Money Is It Anyway?
1994-The vanishing conscience
1991-Romanos 1-8: MacArthur New Testament Commentary
2003- Piense conforme a la Biblia-HC
1997-Strength for Today: Daily Readings for a Deeper Faith
1976-Keys to spiritual growth
1992-Spiritual Bootcamp: Selected Scriptures
2019- One Faithful Life, Hardcover: A Harmony of the Life and Letters of Paul
1994-Different by Design
2003-Hard to Believe: The High Cost and Infinite Value of Following Jesus
2005-Counseling: How to Counsel Biblically
John F. Macarthur Net Worth| Salary
He has founded his own college and has written over 150 books (we’ve barely read 150 books!) Because of this; he has a net worth of around $12,485,467 and an annual salary of $160,000.
John F. Macarthur Grace To You
John is an author known for his internationally syndicated Christian teaching radio program Grace to You. He has been the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, since February 9, 1969. He is also the current president of The Master’s University in Santa Clarita, California, and The Master’s Seminary in Los Angeles California. His daily radio program, Grace to You, which is now broadcast throughout much of the world, started as a ministry to provide audio cassettes of his sermons to listeners, and then began to be broadcast in Baltimore, Maryland, starting in 1977. In December 1989, the Bible Broadcasting Network terminated MacArthur’s Grace to You program.
John F Macarthur Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel A critic of the tendency among some prominent evangelists, like Albert Mohler, to mix the Christian Gospel with the social gospel, MacArthur was a founding signatory of the Declaration on Social Justice and the Gospel, or simply the “Dallas Declaration.” MacArthur said of the social gospel, “Over the years, I have fought a number of polemical battles against ideas that threaten the gospel. I believe that this recent (and surprisingly sudden) detour in search of” social justice “is the most subtle and dangerous threat to date.”
John F Macarthur Family
Patricia MacArthur-Spouse
Jack MacArthur-Father
Irene MacArthur-Mother
Melinda MacArthur-Daughter
Mark MacArthur-Son
Marcy MacArthur-Daughter
Jeanette F.MacArthur-Sister
Matt MacArthur-Son
John F Macarthur Psychology
MacArthur is also a Nouthetic Counseling advocate who emphasizes the Bible as a sufficient tool to advise people with mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety. MacArthur does not reject all psychological theories and techniques, although he sees some psychology and psychiatry as contrary to the Bible.
He argued that “True psychology (i.e. ‘ the study of the soul ‘) can only be done by Christians since only Christians have the resources to understand and transform the soul. Psychology’s secular discipline is based on godless assumptions and evolutionary foundations and is capable of dealing with people only superficially and only temporally …Modern psychology and the Bible cannot be blended without serious compromise to or utter abandonment of the principle of Scripture’s sufficiency…. ”
His position gave rise to a number of controversies, the most notable of which was the first time an evangelical church employee had ever been sued for misuse. The case was not brought to trial because a judge found the case to be insufficient
John F Macarthur Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel
A critic of the tendency among some prominent evangelists, like Albert Mohler, to mix the Christian Gospel with the social gospel, MacArthur was a founding signatory of the Declaration on Social Justice and the Gospel, or simply the “Dallas Declaration.” MacArthur said of the social gospel, “Over the years, I have fought a number of polemical battles against ideas that threaten the gospel. I believe that this recent (and surprisingly sudden) detour in search of” social justice “is the most subtle and dangerous threat to date.”
John F Macarthur Other Christian movements and other religions
His writings disapprove of the modern Christian “seeker-friendly” movement, as well as ministers running this church service style like Robert Schuller, Bill Hybels, and Rick Warren. He criticized popular pastor Joel Osteen’s Word of Faith, whom he called a quasi-pantheist.
In May 2002, in the midst of significant media and public attention focused on cases of Catholic sex abuse, MacArthur gave the entire system of Roman Catholic priesthood a highly critical message. MacArthur has referred to Catholicism as the “Kingdom of Satan,” and holds to the confession that the Pope is anti-Christ, but the term, he said, “applies to anyone who stands against or in Christ’s place.”
MacArthur states that a person who truly believes in everything that Roman Catholicism teaches does not have saving faith because the Roman Catholic way of salvation is based on works and is a “twisted system of satanic lies” presided over by the Pope.
John F. Macarthur Study Bible
The MacArthur Study Bible, first issued in 1997 by current HarperCollins brand W Publishing, is a study Bible edited by evangelical Calvinist preacher John F. MacArthur with introductions and annotations to the 66 books of the Protestant Bible.
John F. Macarthur Church
Grace Community Church is a non-denominational, evangelical megachurch founded in 1956 and located in Sun Valley, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. Noted speaker and radio evangelist John MacArthur is the senior pastor of Grace Community Church
John F Macarthur Christology
MacArthur first published his belief in the doctrine of “incarnational sonship” in 1983. He defended his views after some criticism in a plenary session of the Independent Fundamental Churches of America’s annual convention in 1989. In an article on MacArthur’s Grace to You website entitled “Reexamining Christ’s Eternal Sonship,” he retraces his views from 1983 onwards, concluding, “I want to state publicly that I have abandoned the doctrine of’ incarnational sonship.’ Careful study and reflection have led me to understand that Scripture is indeed presenting the relationship between God the Father and Christ the Son. I no longer regard Christ’s sonship as a role He assumed in His incarnation.”
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