On February 9, 1969, he was hired as the third and youngest pastor at nondenominational Grace Community Church of Sun Valley, California. From 1966 to 1969, MacArthur was hired as the faculty representative for Talbot Theological Seminary. From 1964 to 1966, MacArthur was hired by his father as associate pastor at the Harry MacArthur Memorial Bible Church (now Calvary Bible Church in Burbank, California), which his father Jack had planted and named after his own father. While at Bob Jones College in South Carolina, MacArthur was recruited to the Voice of Cavalry singing quartet, often broadcast on Christian radio in Southern California. MacArthur was also given honoraria from Talbot Theological Seminary ( Doctor of Divinity, 1977) and from Grace Graduate School (1976). In 1963, he was granted a Masters of Divinity from the Bible Institute of Los Angeles's new Talbot Theological Seminary, in La Mirada, California, with honors.
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In 1960, after a year off, he was accepted to the Free Methodist Church’s Los Angeles Pacific College (defunct), where he played three games of football, carrying the ball once (see 1962 yearbook statistics). MacArthur followed in his father's footsteps to enroll at the fundamentalist Bob Jones College from 1957 to 1959. 1950) and son of Baptist radio preacher Jack MacArthur (born in Calgary, Canada) and Irene Dockendorf, MacArthur was born in Los Angeles. The grandson of Canadian Anglican minister Harry MacArthur (d. Los Angeles Pacific College's football roster and statistics, from the 1962 yearbook, showing the football record of then student John Macarthur. MacArthur has written or edited more than 150 books, most notably the MacArthur Study Bible, which has sold more than one million copies, receiving a Gold Medallion Book Award. He has been acknowledged by Christianity Today as one of the most influential preachers of his time and was a frequent guest on Larry King Live as a representative of an evangelical Christian perspective.
MacArthur is a Reformed Protestant and a prominent representative of expository preaching. He is currently Chancellor Emeritus of The Master's University in Santa Clarita, California, and The Master's Seminary in Sun Valley, California. He has been the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, since February 9, 1969. (born June 19, 1939) is an American pastor and author known for his internationally syndicated Christian teaching radio and television program Grace to You.
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