John MacArthur
Quotes by John MacArthur
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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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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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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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We're not spreading anything but the Gospel.
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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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When a pastor steals or over-borrows someone else's work, that pastor is not only playing a role like an actor but isn't a true messenger from the Lord.
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There are things that God hates, right? One of them is the one who stirs up strife.
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I deplore racism and all the cruelty and strife it breeds.
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Christians have been trying to help Jesus build His Kingdom by striking a deal with the devil. Every effort to advance the Kingdom by means of the world's schemes is a stumbling block to Christ and His cause. Pragmatism wants to find a way around any kind of pain or difficulty.
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Women are to maintain submission to men in all churches in all times.
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God didn't hardwire anybody in such a way that they are not responsible for certain behaviors.
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We had for decades, people trying to create a cultural Christianity that would appeal to nonbelievers, that was accepting of immorality, accepting of homosexuality, accepting of racial hatred. There was a kind of superficial, shallow Christianity that watered down the Gospel, didn't talk about sin, tried to have a positive message.
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When you look at evangelicalism fighting itself, you know it's very superficial, they don't know where the real enemy is.
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As Christians we are reconciled with God and united with Christ. To understand that doctrine is to be reconciled with one another. This is a major emphasis in all the Bible's teaching about forgiving one another as God has forgiven us.
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Being a pastor means you're a truth teller. That means you're truth teller when it comes to the Bible. That means you protect your people from deception that comes from the world. That's part of being a shepherd.
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We all understand the people in the Hispanic world know about Jesus Christ, they know about the Bible, they know about God, they know about salvation, at least in some ways. They have biblical terminology because of the impact historically of the Roman Catholic Church, but they don't know Christ.
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The definition of a Church is crystal clear in the New Testament. We see the picture of it. They came together the first day of the week. They worshiped the Lord, they prayed... It was fellowship and it was the breaking of bread in the Lord's supper.
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You know, the one thing that expository preaching does that is apart from the congregation is it sanctifies the pastor.
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Christians have always dissented through history... and inevitably, when persecution of free speech comes it always comes against the people who have the religious absolutes, because that's what threatens people's freedom to sin. So we're always going to be the culprits.
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Over the years, I've fought a number of polemical battles against ideas that threaten the gospel.
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