The fact that the staunchly Reformed publisher Banner of Truth has released a biography of dispensational pastor John
MacArthur is testimony to the fact that MacArthur is one of the most influential evangelical ministers of our times.
This book1 began in 2009 as a biographical portrait commissioned from Iain Murray by the elders of Grace
Community Church to mark MacArthur's fortieth anniversary of ministry in that congregation. Murray has expanded that
profile but concludes by noting that this is 'little more than a sketch; this is not the time, nor I the writer to
give a full portrait' (229).
What do we learn about the life of John MacArthur? Murray begins by describing MacArthur's early years growing up in a minister's home in Southern California. As a young man he attended Bob Jones University and preached his first feeble sermon in a Spartanburg, South Carolina bus station. Uncomfortable with Bob Jones, MacArthur eventually transferred to Pacific College and then on to Talbot Seminary, where he came under the influence of Charles L. Feinberg. This transition reflected MacArthur's discomfort with the 'war psychology' of classical fundamentalism and his move toward more mainstream evangelicalism. Continue at Jeffrey Riddle
What do we learn about the life of John MacArthur? Murray begins by describing MacArthur's early years growing up in a minister's home in Southern California. As a young man he attended Bob Jones University and preached his first feeble sermon in a Spartanburg, South Carolina bus station. Uncomfortable with Bob Jones, MacArthur eventually transferred to Pacific College and then on to Talbot Seminary, where he came under the influence of Charles L. Feinberg. This transition reflected MacArthur's discomfort with the 'war psychology' of classical fundamentalism and his move toward more mainstream evangelicalism. Continue at Jeffrey Riddle
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