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Ellis remembers former client: 'He became a pastor to me'

Ellis remembers former client: 'He became a pastor to me'

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Ellis remembers former client: 'He became a pastor to me'

The recent passing of a beloved and respected Bible teacher is his gain but a great loss for those he left behind, especially those who knew him.

Pastor John MacArthur, who once said, "All death can do to the believer is deliver him to Jesus," went to be with the Lord Monday.

He authored nearly 400 books and guides during his ministry, founded The Master's Seminary in 1986 to train men for pastoral ministry, and launched his radio ministry – "Grace to You" – which is heard throughout the world nearly a thousand times a day.

His choice to open the doors of his church, Grace Community Church, at the height of the pandemic, in violation of California mandates, is the perfect prototype of a ministry committed to knowing the truth and steadfastly holding to it.

"We need to be the Church not only because we're free to be the Church, but because we're commanded to be the Church by the Lord Jesus Christ, the head of the Church," he said at the time. "This is a time, of all times, to meet as the Church. Open your church."

Jenna Ellis was MacArthur's attorney during that fight, which he ultimately won.

"The fight to keep church open and to keep the gathering of the Church paramount and constitutionally protected in America was one of his last, greatest eras," she says.

51 years into his ministry, MacArthur had resisted political involvement up to that point, but the totalitarian nature of the COVID mandates changed that.

Ellis, Jenna Ellis

"He was not being disobedient to government or political by making that stand," Ellis asserts. "He was simply acknowledging the highest law of the land and acknowledging the highest divine lawgiver, which is God himself."

MacArthur is survived by his wife, Patricia, their four married children, 15 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. He is grieved with hope by a church family that embraced Ellis when she got caught up in the anti-Trump lawfare.

"He became a pastor to me personally," the attorney shares. "His whole church family has become very dear to me, and they supported me through so much of what I went through. So, it's been a great loss, I know, to everyone, but especially those of us who personally knew him."

Grace received $800,000 in the settlement of the lawsuit it filed against Los Angeles County and the state of California. For MacArthur, the victory was never about the cash; it was about convictions and the eternal security of others.

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