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Little John MacArthur and the Binding of Conscience, August 10th, 2020.

Introduction

Shortly after John MacArthur announced the stand that Grace Community was taking with regard to Governor Newsom's

shut downeries, to it that they were going to worship the Lord anyhow, despite the

mandate forbidding it.

Brad Littlejohn wrote a lengthy response in which he argued that the principles appealed to by MacArthur were overdone

underdeveloped and misapplied. They were overdone, little John argued, because the claims

made by the Grace Community statement were sweeping in cosmic, asserting the exclusive

Lordship of Christ over the Church and such matters.

They were underdeveloped because there was not enough nuance in them.

They did not appear to allow for the necessary overlap of jurisdictions, for example,

and they were consequently misapplied and we all need to be a lot more careful.

The basic problem here.

What Little John accomplished was to state pretty well actually certain key

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