Pastor John MacArthur Stared Down Los Angeles and Won
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
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🗓️ 15 August 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:41.1 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show. I am so honored to be joined by |
| 0:48.6 | Pastor John McArthur. Pastor McArthur has been a hero of mine for a couple years. |
| 0:59.3 | I actually heard him originally on Moody Radio in Chicago. |
| 1:02.2 | They were rebroadcasting one of his incredible sermons. |
| 1:13.5 | And he has made news recently where he has reopened his church in defiance to Governor Newsom's orders, and he is someone that I look to for such inspiration for theological and spiritual clarity. So Pastor McArthur, thank you so much |
| 1:19.2 | for joining the Charlie Kirk Show. No, thank you so much for those kind words, Charlie. I'm grateful |
| 1:24.1 | to be with you. Well, thank you. So can you give us a little bit of an update and a backdrop of what your church has been going through and some of the decisions that you have made recently to reopen your church? |
| 1:38.8 | Well, I'm going to give you an exclusive that just happened. Today, we had a court hearing, and we had basically |
| 1:47.3 | posted an injunction against the County of Los Angeles and the Health Department to prevent |
| 1:52.6 | them from shutting down our church altogether this coming Sunday. They filed against us to go ahead and ask the court to shut us down, and the judge |
| 2:04.0 | ruled today in our favor. So it was an incredible win for the church, and the judge said, |
| 2:11.4 | outside, no restrictions at all with children, no restrictions at all. They can go back to Sunday school |
| 2:18.9 | and classes. The only thing we ask is that when you go into the worship center, you observe |
| 2:24.2 | social distancing and masks. And, you know, that's okay because that doesn't invade the freedom |
| 2:31.6 | that we have to worship in our church. If we have to look silly for |
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