A Tribute to John MacArthur, Jr, 1939-2025

Terry L. Johnson writes: I first started attending Grace Community Church my freshman year of college. A group of us drove from the University of Southern California to San Fernando Valley to attend a Sunday night service. He was preaching through First John. The churches I grew up in were of the revivalistic Baptist type in which every service was evangelistic, concluding with an altar call. That Sunday night was the first time I ever heard verse-by-verse preaching. It was dynamic, powerful, inspiring, and challenging. I walked out of the service, saying to myself, “That is what a preacher is supposed to do.” His job is not to give us updates on current events, to entertain us with stories, to share his political opinions, or even to evangelize the lost, but simply to explain the Bible and apply its message. His job is to feed the sheep. I knew from that point on that whatever church I attended would feature expository preaching, and if I ever were a minister, verse-by-verse would characterise my own approach to preaching.

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