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John Fullerton MacArthur Jr. (born June 19, 1939) is an American pastor and author who hosts the national Christian radio and television program Grace to You. [ 1 ] He has been the pastor of Grace Community Church, a non-denominational church in Sun Valley, California since February 9, 1969. [ 2 ] He is currently the chancellor emeritus of The ...
Grace Community 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. Speaker and radio evangelist John MacArthur is the senior pastor of Grace Community Church. As of 2008, the average weekly attendance was 8,258.
Cessationism versus continuationism involves a Christian theological dispute as to whether spiritual gifts remain available to the church, or whether their operation ceased with the Apostolic Age of the church (or soon thereafter). The cessationist doctrine arose in the Reformed theology: initially in response to claims of Roman Catholic miracles.
Armstrong, Pastor-General and self-proclaimed "Apostle" of the Radio Church of God, and then the Worldwide Church of God, felt the return of Jesus Christ might be in 1975. Of particular note was the book 1975 in Prophecy! written by Armstrong and published by the Radio Church of God in 1956. Though, never explicitly stating a date in the ...
The Latter Rain, also known as the New Order or the New Order of the Latter Rain, was a post- World War II movement within Pentecostal Christianity which remains controversial. The movement saw itself as a continuation of the restorationism of early Pentecostalism. [ 1 ] The movement began with major revivals between 1948 and 1952 and became ...
Overview. Dispensationalism is a theological framework that views history as divided into distinct periods in which God interacts with mankind in specific ways. Each of these periods is known as a dispensation. [ 4][ 1]: 19 The defining characteristics of a dispensation are the distinct governing relationship in which God interacts with mankind ...
New Covenant theology (or NCT) is a Christian theological position teaching that the person and work of Jesus Christ is the central focus of the Bible. [1] One distinctive assertion of this school of thought is that Old Testament Laws have been abrogated [2] [3] or cancelled [4] with Jesus' crucifixion, and replaced with the Law of Christ of the New Covenant.
John MacArthur bibliography. This is a list of all published works of John F. MacArthur, an evangelical Bible expositor, pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church, and president of The Master's Seminary, in Sun Valley, California. In addition to more than 150 individual books and monographs, MacArthur has also contributed to more than 30 multi ...