Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church defied a court order that directed them to refrain from holding indoor services amid COVID-19. The pastor argued that following the county’s stringent guidelines would ”completely shut the church down.”
On Sunday, Grace Community held a packed morning service, just days after a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge granted the county’s request for an injunction prohibiting the Sun Valley-based church from holding indoor services in violation of county health orders.
MacArthur began the service by outlining why “Grace Church does not just comply with the orders that have been laid down for churches.”
“I thought it might be helpful to give you the list of things that are required of us as a church so that you understand how utterly impossible that would be,” MacArthur said.
He then read a long list of the county’s requirements, including no singing, no hugging, temperature checks, no communion, using the bathroom exclusively during the service, shortening sermons, and maintaining six…
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