Commitment to the Church Podcast by Pastor John MacArthur for Grace to You
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For those of you who know me, who have been a part of our church for any time, know that I love the church. Through the years of ministry, I have had occasion and opportunity to consider other kinds of ministry as to mission field ministry and educational ministry and various and sundry kinds of opportunities that have come my way. But no matter how wonderful they might have been, no matter how attractive, no matter how great the need, I have never found myself able to disassociate from the church and the ministry in the church.
I love the church. It is my life. It has been the center of my life since childhood. When I was born, my father was the pastor of a church. I grew up in church. It is the place where I was led to the knowledge of God, where I learned about Christ. The place where I gained the knowledge of saving and sanctifying truth. It was in the church that I learned all the stories of the scripture – Old Testament and New Testament. It was in the church that I learned God’s moral standard for life. It was in the church where I learned how to pray and it was in the church where I learned how to sing. In the church where I learned how to live and love and serve.
