California megachurch pastor and author John MacArthur warned that far too many pastors today promote a “false gospel” and fail to foster sanctification in their congregations because they are too concerned with being “relevant.”
MacArthur, president of The Master’s College and Seminary and pastor of Grace Community Church of Sun Valley, California, delivered a message titled “Sanctification and the Pastor’s Passion” at the annual Together for the Gospel conference in Louisville, Kentucky, last week.
Citing Galatians 1:9 (which reads, “As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!”), MacArthur said the Apostle Paul has a “controlled rage” over the things that threaten the purposes of God.
“One, a corrupted gospel, devilish, satanic, counterfeit gospel,” he said. “You’re believing a damning lie. You tamper with ‘faith alone’ even in one small ritual — that is a corrupted, damning gospel. I don’t think in this particular day in evangelical Christianity people have that very clearly.”
Paul presents another concern about the corrupting of the gospel —…
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