This is the second part of a recent interview with John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church in California. Each month millions around the world listen to his sermons through radio broadcasts or the Grace to You website.
PS: Judgements regarding separation are tricky, for example when you associate or not. How much agreement with someone do you need in order to speak at a conference?
JM: I don’t want to spend my life only speaking to people who already believe what I believe, or I don’t advance the truth. It’s not so much where you are but what you say when you get there. If you compromise the message to accommodate the setting, that is a serious failure.
There have been times when I have said I really can’t speak at a certain event because it would be viewed as compromise, because the force of that event or the bulk of the speakers are known to be in error or compromisers. If you try to put me into a conference with a bunch of compromising evangelicals, I find myself unable to do that because it looks like affirmation.
PS: Who are compromising evangelicals?
