John MacArthur Gives Health Update, Announces Church Needs Big Budget Cuts
Pastor Austin Duncan of Grace Community Church read a letter from John MacArthur during their recent Sunday service, relaying his desire to return to the church once he regains his strength, while also warning the church needs to enact major budge cuts.
MacArthur, 85, has been away from the pulpit for the better part of a year, battling a series of health issues, setbacks, and complications stemming from multiple heart surgeries he had in the back half of 2024.
Duncan revealed that “we all love our pastor, and these months of convalescence have been difficult for us, and as leaders have been going to his home and meeting with him in the season,” before sharing the letter:
As many of you know, I had a second procedure on my lungs last month. That procedure was successful and am now back at home. The doctors are optimistic about my recovery and I am eager to return to you once I regain my strength. I anticipate that that will still be a few months away, but I wanted to convey my love for all of you and my love for this church. Realizing my life and times are in the hands of the Lord, my desire is to be back at church as soon as possible.
MacArthur then shares some of the financial struggles the church is having:
I also want to update you regarding our church’s finances. One of the consistent characteristics of Grace Church is that our people are always generous in their giving. Your affection for the church and your eagerness to support the ministry here is a reflection of your love for the Lord. God loves a cheerful giver. And this congregation is certainly characterized by joyful generosity.
Even so, for the first time in more than a decade, we have faced the effects of a financial recession in our giving this past fiscal year. By God’s grace, He has provided for our needs through some large donations to bring us through the last two years. But as we look ahead to the coming fiscal year, starting July 1st, our elders recognize the need to reduce our budget at the church by about 20%.
Despite reducing the budget for next year, our church remains fully committed to the ministry God has entrusted to us. There will be some adjustments, of course, but most of you will not be affected by that.
MacArthur’s prolonged absence from the pulpit, resulting in the departure of many COVID-19 refugees, coupled with large capital projects (such as painting the building and repairing the roof), has played a significant role in the budget deficit.
While no Form 990 is submitted for tor Grace Community Church, financials submitted to the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) for Grace to You reveal a similar decline, including a budget shortfall of $10.8M for the past fiscal year.
MacArthur concludes:
Obviously, we are praying for a significant increase in this year’s giving, knowing that God blesses a generous and cheerful giver. So, as the Lord brings our church to your mind, please pray for our elders as we seek to steward this ministry well for Christ’s glory. And also, continue to pray that the Lord would give me strength and allow me to return to you soon. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Anything MacArthur = FALSE & DECEIVING man-made doctrine of calvinism / reformism!
YOU are a prideful gossiping professing Christian so hung up on being anti-Calvinist that you can’t see Biblical truth through your own arrogance and pride. Blind and denying God’s sovereign grace to save whomever He chooses. You apparently believe man is sovereign over his own salvation as opposed to the clear instruction of Scripture that man cannot save himself and has no ability to participate in the process save for God’s grace alone by giving him faith alone in Christ alone according to Scripture alone for God’s glory alone according to Scripture alone !
So sick of you anti-calvinists polluting everything that is written and John MacArthur.
If you can’t say anything good about an ailing frail man who has faithfully taught Scripture and lived it out these many years, then just shut up. Please !
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Sir, the Holy Bible is the ONLY truth!
Read the word oF GOD. Lay down all of you misinformed false man-made calvinist books. NO HUMAN has ever read the Bible and become a calvinist or reformist. You became a calvinist / reformist by reading other peoples books! I’m sorry, but the truth that you are part of a demonic cult of a false, man-made inspired doctrine (calvinism / reformism) hurts!
MacArthur is a heretic & modern day charlatan! Wise up my friend before it is too late!
This scripture pertains to you calvinist / reformist cult members directly from Jesus:
Matthew 15:9 KJV
BUT IN VAIN, they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of MEN.
John 3:16 KJV
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joshua 24:15 KJV
“choose you this day whom ye will serve”
1 Corinthians 1:19 KJV
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Sir, the Holy Bible is the ONLY truth!
Read the word oF GOD. Lay down all of you misinformed false man-made calvinist books. NO HUMAN has ever read the Bible and become a calvinist or reformist. You became a calvinist / reformist by reading other peoples books! I’m sorry, but the truth that you are part of a demonic cult of a false, man-made inspired doctrine (calvinism / reformism) hurts!
MacArthur is a heretic & modern day charlatan! Wise up my friend before it is too late!
This scripture pertains to you calvinist / reformist cult members directly from Jesus:
Matthew 15:9 KJV
BUT IN VAIN, they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of MEN.
John 3:16 KJV
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joshua 24:15 KJV
“choose you this day whom ye will serve”
1 Corinthians 1:19 KJV
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Anything MacArthur = FALSE & DECEIVING man-made doctrine of calvinism / reformism!
Anything MacArthur = FALSE & DECEIVING man-made doctrine of calvinism / reformism!
YOU are a prideful gossiping professing Christian so hung up on being anti-Calvinist that you can’t see Biblical truth through your own arrogance and pride. Blind and denying God’s sovereign grace to save whomever He chooses. You apparently believe man is sovereign over his own salvation as opposed to the clear instruction of Scripture that man cannot save himself and has no ability to participate in the process save for God’s grace alone by giving him faith alone in Christ alone according to Scripture alone for God’s glory alone !
So sick of you anti-calvinists polluting everything that is written about John MacArthur.
If you can’t say anything good about an ailing frail man who has faithfully taught Scripture and lived it out these many years, then just shut up. Please !
Hey Tim –
Take your misguided comments and go elsewhere. There are plenty of places on garbage social media sites to spew your venom. This was an update on John’s health and a message on church expenses due to church repairs.
Sheesh…
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Hey Tim –
Take your misguided comments and go elsewhere. There are plenty of places on garbage social media sites to spew your venom. This was an update on John’s health and a message on church expenses due to church repairs.
Sheesh…
George, the Holy Bible is the ONLY truth!
Why do you demonic calvinist cult members not read the Bible only? You read and listen to charlatans such as MacArthur, piper, lawson, buice, washer, & many more heretics & charlatans?
Read the word oF GOD. Lay down all of you misinformed false man-made demonic calvinist books. NO HUMAN has ever read the Bible and become a calvinist or reformist. You became a calvinist / reformist by reading other peoples books! I’m sorry, but the truth that you are part of a demonic cult of a false, man-made inspired doctrine (calvinism / reformism) hurts!
MacArthur is a heretic & modern day charlatan! Wise up my friend before it is too late!
This scripture pertains to you calvinist / reformist cult members directly from Jesus:
Matthew 15:9 KJV
BUT IN VAIN, they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of MEN.
John 3:16 KJV
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joshua 24:15 KJV
“choose you this day whom ye will serve”
1 Corinthians 1:19 KJV
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent
The tulip is a very beautiful flower, but is a very very vile, evil, dark & deceiving demonic false man-made doctrine !
The Bible talks about predestination,and that many are called. It also talks about free will.
Instead of running to the extremes, hyper-calvinist vs hyper-armenianist, try thinking about how God’s word does not conflict on these issues. It doesn’t conflict, even if we may not understand.
One way it doesn’t, is the fact that giving free will to mankind does not diminish God’s sovereignty. He didn’t have to do it. He willingly did it. Another is the simple fact that it does no good to get too carried away arguing over the degree of depravity, when we all know full well that any depravity at all is enough to condemn us to eternal damnation. Another is that many of the passages that talk about predestination are referring to the apostles, and those who are called into ministry, and not salvation. And another is that our participation, by submitting to the Lord and accepting Him as our Lord and Savior, does not diminish the completeness and fullness of His work. That’s not a matter of us saving ourselves. It’s a matter of humbly recognizing that we cannot save ourselves.
Obviously, those who read my comments know, I tend to lean a bit toward Armenianism myself. Because of scriptures that indicate we do have choices and free will, and passages such as Romans 2:14-16. Of course, when you start thinking about God’s foreknowledge, that’s enough to fry anybody’s brain. It’s too much for us to comprehend.
But that said, I can listen to sermons by MacArthur, Bauchum, and other Calvinists all day long, and never hear anything I severely disagree with. I certainly wouldn’t call them heretics. I grew up listening to MacArthur and reading his books, and still do to this day. The Calvinist vs Armenian debate is 99.9% false dilemma. A waste of time, petty bickering, that accomplishes nothing good, and does nothing to edify the Body of Christ.
Do something constructive, and start thinking about how the scripture doesn’t conflict with itself. Rather than slinging poo at somebody who believes one passage while you believe another.
You are making no sense at all ! Armenias was a calvinist also! How about just believing in the Holy Bible only? The calvinist / reformist doctrine of John Calvin is a modern day pandemic/ virus on the Church today!
Tim, you are too worked up right now, to be able to have a reasonable conversation or debate. I’ll be more than willing to discuss the matter with you, after you’ve calmed down.
T, I have been worked up as you say, for over 10 years now, when my once Spirit filled Christian wife of 32 years divorced & shun me for the false demonic man-made doctrine of calvinism/ reformism. She then claimed to be a spirit filled calvinist. Yes, she was correct that she had now been filled with the dead rotting 500 year old spirit of john calvin! A demonic spirit too! She also turned our 5 beautiful children against me because I was not one of the calvinist elect! Thank GOD! This is one of the MOST EVIL doctrines in our time. And our time is getting very short!!!!
I find that difficult to believe. Does she not know that porneia is the only valid reason for divorce?
1 Cor. 7:13-14 … Even if she did believe you were an unbeliever, she should not have divorced you.
But I have a difficult time believing that theological differences pertaining to predestination vs free-will, and interpretation of scriptures pertaining to both, had very little, if anything, to do with the divorce. I believe there’s a lot more to the story that you aren’t telling us.
Maybe your Spirit filled wife divorced and shunned you because you drove her away with you irrational rants…reckon ?
Another way in which the scripture does not conflict, is that we know God is calling all to repentance. His word calls each and every one to repentance. The work of the Holy Spirit, is to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgement (John 16:8-10). So there, you have the fact that the Holy Spirit is showing the entire world what is righteous and what is sinful, in which case there is no conflict between the concept of total depravity and the free will of all to willingly submit to the Lord. And it must be willingly done and voluntary. Otherwise, it is not true repentance and true submission.
There is a lot to think about. There are many, many scriptures to consider. And when you start considering the fact that God already knows all that is going to happen, at that point it can quickly become too much for our little human brains to comprehend. The Bible says that even Abraham was saved by the blood of Jesus. Justified by faith, made complete in Jesus. Through God’s foreknowledge, all who were saved before Him, were saved by Him, across all time and space. (Gal 3:8-9, 1 Pet. 1, Romans 3 & 4, etc.).
Spend a little more time contemplating the scripture and how it doesn’t conflict …
Reply to Too Many T’s,
Your RECKONING will come to you one day, with your calvinist inspired demonic irrational false man-made doctrine that you so deceivingly argue. Your personal calvinist / reformist demons will be proud of you!
2 Corinthians 11:4
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
Tim, do you have any specific examples of John MacArthur preaching a false gospel?
oh puleeeeeeeeaze…no wonder your wife left you.
The calvinist doctrine put forth by any charlatan / heretic such as macarthur, bauchum, ( vipers in diapers heretic ), paul washer, john piper, steve lawson, josh buice & many more of your money making charlatan heretics of the false man-made calvinist / reformist demonic doctrine is a pandemic on the Church of the living GOD!
This scripture pertains to all you calvinist / reformist cult members directly from Jesus:
Matthew 15:9 KJV
BUT IN VAIN, they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of MEN.
Matthew 15:9 KJV
BUT IN VAIN, they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of MEN.
Um, Grace to You isn’t having any issue financially. Giving increased, but they spent considerably more then the years prior, like nearly double what they did in 2023. please correct that statement, unless there is new data showing 2025 that isn’t referenced in this article.
Anything MacArthur = FALSE & DECEIVING man-made doctrine of calvinism / reformism!
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