(CP) Grace Neighborhood Church Pastor John MacArthur is recovering “slower than anticipated” from three surgical procedures final yr and is at the moment hospitalized, in response to a current replace.
GCC Elder Tom Patton stated in an replace Sunday that the distinguished 85-year-old California pastor and writer “suffered from a sequence of well being issues that saved him out of the pulpit and required three surgical procedures within the second half of 2024.”
“His restoration has been slower than anticipated, with intermittent setbacks affecting his coronary heart, lungs and kidneys,” Patton added. “Docs have but to find any underlying trigger for these numerous illnesses.”
“John has been hospitalized for the previous two weeks present process checks and therapy. So please pray for him and the docs engaged on the case.”
GCC Elder Phil Johnson, govt director of Grace to You, took to Fb final week to dispel rumors that MacArthur is receiving palliative care and has points with those that need extra common well being updates.
“John MacArthur NEVER needed his well being to be publicly introduced. It’s certainly one of his idiosyncrasies and it has been his coverage for years. The shortage of public bulletins about his well being is just not uncommon for this present sickness,” he added. Johnson wrote.
“It's an comprehensible coverage and there's nothing treasonous about it. Frankly, it's tiring to reply hundreds of questions on one's personal well being – AND take care of a whole lot of quack drugs offered by well-meaning individuals. I do know this from expertise. That's why HIPAA guidelines exist.”
MacArthur turned a GCC pastor-teacher in Solar Valley in 1969, a couple of years after graduating from Talbot College Theological Seminary at Biola. MacArthur is alleged to have preached greater than 3,000 sermons since then.
On New 12 months's Day 2023, MacArthur was hospitalized after preaching on the primary day of the GCC service, stopping him from attending the second service.
The GCC offered an replace the next day, saying MacArthur was “doing nicely” after the 2023 emergency and that he “simply wants a break from a busy vacation week.”
MacArthur continued to have well being issues and was out of his pulpit from final July till November, when he preached on the Thanksgiving service.
“I'm nonetheless right here and I thank the Lord for that,” MacArthur stated on the November service. “God has functions that we might by no means be capable of accomplish if we weren't uncovered to some form of stress.”
“I'm simply grateful that I see the great, variety and gracious and providential hand of God in each state of affairs in life, each tough expertise, each problem – no matter that problem could also be.”
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