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MAY Letter
 Dear Friends,
Dr. John MacArthur is the
senior pastor of Grace Community Church and heads other entities such as
The Master’s College & Seminary (TMC&S). Because of two series of
articles, in which we critique TMC&S and then favorably quote two
sermons by MacArthur, we’ve been asked, “Are you for or against
MacArthur?” While this sounds like a straight forward question that
could be answered “for” or “against,” that is not the case, as we will
explain.
This question came up
because in our final three newsletter issues of 2012 we ran a series
titled “A Critical Review of The Master’s College & Seminary [TMC&S]
Biblical Counseling program.” In those articles we demonstrate that the
TMC&S biblical counseling program is not truly biblical. Although
MacArthur heads TMC&S, he was not the target of our complaints, but
rather Dr. John Street, who heads the biblical counseling program.
Our first three newsletter
issues for this year carry a three-part series titled “Focus on the
Family: A Sham and a Shame,” in which we compliment MacArthur for two
sermons he gave on homosexuality and abortion. We used his two
biblically forthright messages as a total contrast to how Focus on the
Family’s CEO, Jim Daly, “evangelizes” the lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender (LBGT) and abortion activist communities, absent a clear
presentation of the Gospel, which must include the fact of sin and Jesus
being the only way of salvation. We believe that MacArthur’s evangelism
to these anti-biblical groups expresses both the love and truth of God
and is therefore, biblically speaking, “love talk.”
In answer to the
“for-against” question (above) we are “neither” because we deal with
issues. We are against TMC&S’s biblical counseling program
because it is not truly biblical, and we are for what MacArthur
said in his two solidly biblical messages on homosexuality and abortion.
Discerning readers will understand these “for” and “against”
conclusions.
Thanks to those of you who
support our “for and against” efforts regarding issues, individuals, and
organizations and who do not need to indiscriminately defend anyone.
In Christ,
Martin and Deidre Bobgan |
| The Bobgans
have spoken on psychology and Christianity at numerous conferences and churches and on
radio and television. Together they have authored
21 books.
Deidre has also written Lord of the Dance: The Beauty of the Disciplined Life
(Harvest House; EastGate). Educational
Background * Martin: University of Minnesota, B. A., B. S., M. A.; University of
Colorado, Doctorate in Educational Psychology * Deidre: University of Minnesota, B. S.;
University of California, M. A. in English. |
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