John Macarthur Sermon

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JohnMacArthur is my brother in Christ and we are on the same team. We are both people who love Jesus and want the world to know the grace of God. All the feedback I give above are given with respect and love.

I believe that, while there is certainly freedom for peaceful protests, the rioting, destruction, and violence cannot be pleasing to God, no matter what label you put on it ( The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy..) Our identity must be first in Christ to truly unite us.

I am curious to know his thoughts about the violent protests at the white house by so called patriots seeing h how concerned he was about the defunding of the police, and especially seeing how the police themselves were overrun by so called patriots. These people in their aggressive and cold bloodied heartless behavior seemed far worse than some of the looting of other protestors, though they were wrong as well. I saw no equitable understanding of the plight of the one group as opposed to the other. Thank you as a believer for brave enough to highlight how Jesus dealt with the oppressed people of his day and without making excuses for not reaching out.

Excellent, Rachel. Good, deep, Bible-centered thoughts. It is easy to just listen to someone who is widely-respected as a Bible teacher and not remember that he, too, is fallible and may miss some things. He clearly did in this, and I appreciate your taking the time to address those missteps. Bless you, friend!

Another friend recommended that book to me recently! I will have to check it out. That sounds like it will be helpful in bringing to my attention how the Church went along with things at times. I am in PA and many times I just figure that racism is a Southern USA problem, but it would be good to learn more if it is otherwise.

Thank you so much, Karen, for sharing your perspective. I like that you said our responsibility is to see the suffering of others, and address that suffering. The more I read Scripture, the more I see that God wants us to speak up and notice injustice!

Hi rachel , I just came across your blog .I was scanning on you tube and came across the sermon you mentioned.I was so disappointed and sadden.I knew his name was quite popular.but I never really watched him .he echo similar stance that a christian radio station here in milwaukee portrays.I am a christian of 30 years and african american .I go to a small loving bi racial church a little mire whites then blacks and I love it.I dont get those vibes at my church but sadly its out there the biggest problems with racism is the silence and complacency of the church communities.I live in milwaukee and studies gave proven milwaukee and wisconsin as a whole gas a severe racial segregation issues among other inequalities.but some christian communities do not belueve it I guest , others blatantly over the issues.thank you for your article.

Like many others I have benefited from john macarthur teachings, but was left angry and disappointed at his reactions to the black rioters and the capital rioters. I found his comments on slavery very offensive and his denials of how black people are treated. Justin peters is just as bad. Never once have I heard them condemned the capitol rioters but are quick to condemned the black ones. Rachel thank you so much for your page, may God continue to bless you

You are wrong, Macarthur is right, systematic racism does not exist, you are only fueling the racial tension in the protests. Do not be part of the problem and he is very right when he says stop trying a fallen world

Thank you so much for sharing this. What I want people to understand is that John MacArthur is a man who lived through some of the most wicked, racist, evil times in American history. Yet, he is no where on record ever fighting against racism and injustice. This is a man who was raises by a father who supported a school that very openly misrepresented Christ through their very blatant hatred of black Christians, to the point of banning them from the school and even banning marriage to them. MacArthur went on to make his church a safe haven for Pastors who continued to financially support and attend the last school who fought to continue to uphold hatred against African Americans in recent years, up until the year 2000!! John MacArthur frequently praised the racist founder and the school over the years, NEVER condemning their racist misrepresentation of Christ. So, with this understanding, we should expect that this man would never think to show himself a brother to black people as a whole, but especially black Christians because he has never cared about them. Why should be surprised that a man with his history of indifference to the suffering and hatred of blacks among those who call themselves Christians, to have empathy for a black man named George Floyd, who was brutally murdered by a white man. I would expect for a man like him to show his true heart and not even be able to pretend to care about a black man being unjustyly murdered by a white cop. I would tell anyone to lower their expectations when it comes to MacArthur. He has told us, through his actions for years, what he thinks about black people. What would have shocked me is if John MacArthur would have shown sympathy and love to the black community because in his 80+ years on this earth, he has never done such a thing.

I've been asked to share my sermon prep custom workflow, which is based on Bryan Chapell's Christ-Centered Preaching. The majority of the questions and nearly all the explanations in this workflow are quotations from that book. Links are provided to enable to read the quotations in context.

Thank you for sharing this Mark. One possible tweak that I would like to see (selfish plea): Please add the page numbers from Chapell's book. I have it in another Bible Software program and would like to read it as if it were connected to Logos. If it is too much trouble, maybe just the chapter connected to the steps would suffice. Thank you!

I want to be teachable from other preachers! I heard yesterday on a podcast ( -122-the-preaching-of-john-macarthur/) that John MacArthur writes his Introduction and Conclusion before the body of the sermon. This workflow has the writing follow the delivery scheme.

My own experience is that before I start writing the sermon I already know roughly what the conclusion will be, because of the work I've done in determining the Fallen Condition Focus, and writing the homiletical outline. But I may also want the conclusion to repeat or summarise some of the most impactful parts of the sermon, which I won't know until I've finished everything else. So I always write my conclusion last, even though (in my head) I know most of what it will say.

I also often begin my conclusion by pasting in my introduction, and then editing it. That way I can ensure that I've genuinely tied up all the loose ends, and delivered what I promised. Occasionally, doing this forces me to go back and tweak the body of the sermon to include things I'd missed out, or perhaps tweaking the introduction so it promises what I actually wrote, not what I thought I would write!

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