Rev John McArther, an impressive and accurate engineer, died on Monday at the age of 86.
He led the Grace Community Church in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Sun Valley for more than five decades. Church announces its death On your websitePraising his “56 -year -old loyal ministry”.
On Sunday, one of the church pastors, Tom Patton reported that the congregation McArther was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia.
The church’s statement said, “Even in recent years, although with health challenges, he remained teaching, leading, and investing in ministries.”
McArthur made news during the Koronwirus epidemic for the health orders of Los Angeles County Holding indoor services For hundreds of circles and refuses to apply masking and physical-disbursement requirements.
Well, earlier, his influence had spread far beyond the southern California, where he grew up and took his nondenominational congregation at the age of 29.
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Your Grace to You Broadcast Ministry broadcast his religious conservative teachings, while many of his books, including the popular McArther Studies Bible, were translated into dozens of languages.
Jonathan Phalvel, Chancellor of Liberty University, said, “His legacy as a pastor and teacher in faith will continue to inspire many generations to come.”
Wearing a suit and tie, he made emotional appeal from pop culture contexts and Pulpits, even he became the mainstay of modern agillaism.
His followers appreciated him for his exposure preaching, in which he drove him through the line through the Holy Scripture Line. He wanted him to explain his sermon as a timeless explanation of the Bible.
Group leader Franklin Graham, “He may be more than a Bible poem, which I have ever known,” Written on social mediaHe called MacArthur one of the “great Bible teachers of America”.
He was written for “a lion of the pulpit”, The Rev al Mohler, a Southern Baptist leader, G. World magazine“He was a preacher used to improve better campaigners to other campaigners.”
McArther was fearless to lighten the controversy for his beliefs, even to achieve fellow glory for whatever he saw in the form of wrong teachings and theology, including the growing charismatic wing of Christianity.
He was an outspoken proposer of complementary – belief that men and women have different roles and women should not be a pastor. They publicly reprimanded two influential agel women: popular Bible teachers Bath Moore and Rev. Paula White-Can, Spiritual Advisor to President Donald Trump.
A pack at the height of the Koronwirus epidemics, during the indoor Sunday morning service, McArther appreciated the appreciation, saying that they were not meeting to be rebels, but because “our God has ordered us to come together and worship it.”
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County and Church traded cases, later the Covid-19 mandate violated its constitutional right to religious freedom. In August 2021, Board of County Supervisors Voting to pay Grace Community Church To settle the trial – one result McArther saw as “monumental victory”.
The church has also made allegations related to its treatment of allegations of misuse and giving up their treatment of women abusive marriage.
McArthur deprived a long queue of the pastor, including his father. As part of his ministry, he helped train the leaders of the future church through Master University and Master Seminary in Southern California.
He is alive with his wife, Petricia and his four adult children, Matt, Marsi, Mark and Melinda with 15 grandchildren and nine verses. The church’s statement described him as “dear husband, father, grandfather and great -grandfather” and sought prayers on behalf of his family.
McArthur was suffering from health problems in recent years, including heart and lung processes. He spoke about his sick health in a video message at a church leadership conference earlier this year.
“I think I’m in the last lap,” he said. “This is a new meaning when you know that you are at the small end of the candle. I am thanking everything and praising God, which he has allowed me to be a part of what he has done with his promise in these years of the ministry.”