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JouN MacArtTHur: SERVANT OF THE WORD AND FLOCK
Ground-breaking of Grace to You
The new Grace to You building
Students of the Master's College
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John greeting student of Master's Seminary
Grace Community Church Campus Map
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Architect's drawing of Church Campus
Volunteer helpers at Grace to You
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Don Green, Phil Johnson, and Mike Taylor
Four generations of MacArthurs
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Almost the whole family, 2009
Pipe
Dr MacArthur in the pulpit at Grace
. Patricia with John
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'Life's Most Important Question'
Aerial photo of Grace Community Church Campus
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John MacArthur
Foreword
6 FRE: with John MacArthur over the last dozen
years has been one of the happiest surprises of my life.
Surprise because we live on opposite sides of the world, and
because, coming from somewhat different evangelical tradi-
tions, we might not seem to be natural fellow-labourers. It was
shared convictions on great truths that brought us together,
as they are bringing others committed to Scripture together
across the world.
Writing a biography of Dr MacArthur never occurred to me
until an event in 2009. Prior to that date the elders of his church
asked me to preach on the fortieth anniversary of his ministry
at Grace Community Church at Sun Valley, Los Angeles, which
was being marked on Sunday, February 1, 2009. I sensed that
some comment by me on the ministry we were commemorat-
ing would be appropriate, but how to address that subject was
not at first clear to me. Believing as we do that the pulpit on
the Lord's Day is for preaching His Word, that possibility was
excluded. I therefore settled for writing a biographical sketch
as a short tribute.
Unknown to me, Phil Johnson and Mike Taylor (editors
working for Grace to You and members of Grace Community
Church) had a volume in preparation to mark the anniversary,