John MacArthur師が退院・復帰した模様。心房細動と心不全で加療中だった。
☞ JOHN MACARTHUR RETURNS TO THE PULPIT AT SHEPHERD CONFERENCE 2023
☞ CONTROVERSIAL REMARKS AT JOHN MACARTHUR'S 2023 SHEPHERD CONFERENCE BY STEVE LAWSON
これらの動画を観ても、Ligonier MinistriesのメンバーとJohn MacArthur師との間に深い絆があることが分かる。教理や教派を超えて親睦を深めることができるには、それ相当の理由があるからなのだ。
次の動画で、Larson氏がJohn MacArthur師とR.C.Sproul師の関係について紹介してくれている。MacArthur師も自身の体験談を回想する。
☞ MacArthur and Sproul: Special Questions & Answers
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The two of you have built a friendship over many decades of ministry, co-laboring and fighting some of the same battles, the battle for the Bible and I believe it was around the inerrancy struggles in the seventies, Dr. MacArthur, that you first became aware of Dr. Sproul's ministry. Recount for us just some of those early impressions of meeting Dr. Sproul.
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MACARTHUR: I think the first exposure I had to R.C. was actually listening to the series on The Holiness of God, and that's probably true for many, many of the people here. had known of his name, but that was my first real acquaintance and that's really the entry point I think for many people into the ministry of R.C. Sproul. And then the inerrancy congress came along and there were a hundred people that were involved in that, and obviously he was there. I don't remember having personal contact at that point with him, but I knew he was a co-belligerent on the issue of biblical authority and inerrancy and that is the watershed for absolutely everything. I began to listen more often to him and follow his ministry, and then out of the absolute blue I received an invitation to come to a Ligonier conference. And I was kind of an alien to the Reformed world to be honest. I sort of found my way to the right theology on my own. I wasn't raised in that environment. I was raised as kind of a devotional Baptist guy in just kind of a traditional typical middle-of-the-road church. So, I struggled on my own to find my way into Reformed literature, Puritan reading, and once I read, I began to listen to Sproul and I read Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God by J.I. Packer, and this opened up a kind of new world for me. But my first recollection of really spending time with him was at a Ligonier conference, and I don't even remember what year it was.
