July 21, 2025 • 21 mins
Pastor Lance Sparks reflects on the legacy and impact, both personal and public, of Pastor John MacArthur.
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(00:00):
This morning I want to do something that I've never done
before in the 31 years that we've been together and we'll
probably more than likely never,ever do again.
This morning I want to. I want to give glory to the Lord
for how God has used one man in my life to shape and mold my
(00:21):
ministry, our church, my marriage, my life.
He's more than just a a magnificent man.
He's more than just a magnanimous man.
He's more than just a magnetic man.
(00:43):
He's more than just a marvelous man.
He's even more than just a monumental man.
He is and was the masters man and that man is is John
MacArthur. He went home to be with the Lord
this past Monday evening. It was my wife's birthday.
(01:06):
We were out together and we received the the news on our way
back home. And we thank the Lord for his
ministry, for his life, for his testimony.
And a lot has been said already in the last six days about John
and his ministry and whether whether you love him or you
(01:31):
loathe him, there is no one likehim, and everybody would attest
to that. Even the New York Times called
him a fiery preacher and a culture warrior, which he was.
And many people will say things about John and they'll give
(01:53):
credit to him. And well, so with the, the the
ministry that he had, all the books that he wrote, he wrote
hundreds of them. The sermons that he preached, he
preached thousands of them. They went around the world
literally. And the seminary that was
started under his leadership as well as the college under his
leadership, as well as the Masters Institute or the the
(02:18):
missions outreach of Masters University, as well as grace to
you. And people would be right in
giving honor to him for the things that he has done, all of
his accomplishments. But that's not what made him the
Masters man. Those are great things, but it
goes way beyond that. And I'm afraid that most people
(02:42):
will miss this. And that is for for 56 years,
there was never one hint of a scandal or stain upon the man's
ministry or life. That is the master's man.
That's what makes his ministry so unique.
(03:03):
And think about this. Grace Community Church has
gathered together for the first time in 56 years without their
shepherd. Think about that.
He's been there a long time. He died on Monday, so they
gathered together on Sunday for the first time and John is in
(03:26):
glory. Things are different for for
Grace Community. They will be different into the
future and we will pray for themin a moment.
But John had a unique and powerful impact on my life.
The things I've said to you, youprobably already know.
(03:46):
But what you don't know is that that in 1979 was the first time
I ever met John. He was speaking at Sandy Cove
Bible Conference on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and my father
invited me to come. I was a junior in in college.
It was summertime. He invited me to come and and be
a part of a meeting that my father was going to have along
(04:09):
with the elders from our church in Delaware to meet with John to
discuss issues concerning the church.
And my dad invited me to come and be a part of that meeting.
So I thought that that would be a good thing to do.
Because you see, I grew up through junior high and high
school listening to John on the radio every day in my house.
(04:33):
My, my, my parents would, would turn it up very loud.
We had a two-story house and they wanted to make sure they
they would hear John whether they were in the basement, the
bathroom, the bedroom, no matterwhere they were, they wanted to
hear his voice. And so by virtue of that, I
couldn't help but hear John's voice.
(04:57):
In fact, I was reminded by one of my college roommates this
past week that we used to listento to John all the time in
college. We would get cassette tapes and
we would listen to John and plugthem in.
And a lot of it dealt with this question and answers.
I, I still have this in my possession.
(05:17):
This is how they used to come out in cassette tapes and they,
they listed all the questions inthere for you and which tape
they were on so that you would know where they were.
And so we would sit as college students listening to John and
then pause it to see if we couldanswer the question before John
(05:38):
answered the question. That was one of the ways we
learned in college. I have a numerous amount of
tapes in my office. I, I don't even have a cassette
player anymore. But anyway, that's, that's what
we used to do. And John came to, to preach on
the fulfilled family in 1979. And I still have the, the study
(05:59):
guide from what he, what he preached on, He used to send
these out in the mail for free to all those radio listeners who
requested them. And they were called study
guides. And this was the one on the
fulfilled family. I have hundreds of these in my
office as well that I've kept over the years simply because
this is the way it used to be. Now he's written his commentary,
(06:20):
so it's a lot different. But I kept those simply because
of of the impact they made in mylife.
And so my father invited me to meet with John and his elders.
And so we sat down and I listened.
And what struck me most about the conversation, I didn't say a
(06:40):
word, was that whenever John wasasked a question by my father or
by the elders of our church, John always responded by saying
what the Bible says, or God commands us to do this, or the
Scriptures are very clear about this.
Everything was about the Word ofGod.
That was the authority, and so when I listened to him, I
(07:00):
realized he spoke with not only great authority but great
clarity concerning the Scriptures because he backed up
everything he said with the wordof the living God.
That made a great impact on me as a junior in college.
I would continue to listen to his tapes.
In fact, Laurie and I, we lived in in Tarrytown, NY when we were
(07:24):
married, and I used to jump ropefor an hour consecutively
listening to the tapes of John MacArthur because each tape was
just about an hour long. And so I would time my jump
roping according to his sermon on that day.
I don't do that anymore because I don't jump rope anymore.
(07:46):
That's something in the past. But anyway, that's what I used
to do. We used to mark up the floor
with the jump rope that used to go around and around and around
and around. And that's what I used to do.
Listen to John move forward 15 years later to 1994.
I just begun the pastor of church the Open Door.
(08:08):
And having been there, I encountered much conflict
theologically as well as morally, simply because theology
always determines your morality,right?
And so while I was there, I was engaged in, in much conflict.
(08:29):
And so I thought that it would be good for me to, to call John.
So I did. And it was different than it is
today. In those days, you could call
the church and someone would actually answer the phone and
they would direct you to the, tothe that person you were
calling. Today, you don't do that
anymore. You call and you get some kind
(08:51):
of machine that tells you this or or that we've we've gotten so
technical. But back then everything was was
personal lot different back in the early 90s.
And so I called and, and, and spoke with the secretary and she
said something really unique. She said, hold on Lance and let
me get him for you. I was perplexed that she would
(09:14):
call me Lance. Not that I don't want to be
called Lance. It's just that she didn't call
me Pastor or Mr. Sparks. She said Lance.
And so I was kind of taken back by that, but I soon realized why
she did. And she connected me with John
and and John got on and said, hello, Lance, how are you today?
I understand you're going through a rough time at church.
(09:34):
The open door. I said, yes, I am.
But how did you know? He said, well, we've been
following your ministry very closely.
Well, we knew you came from Calvary Church of Santa Ana and
we knew that theologically therewas a difference in terms of
what you believed and what church the Open Door believed
concerning repentance in the Lordship of Christ.
(09:56):
And so we knew that there would be some discrepancy there.
We just didn't know how long it would take for the conflict to
erupt. So we've been praying for you
over this time. So explain to me, he says, what
is happening. So I did, I went through the
details of what had taken place since I arrived at the church
and I'll never forget what he said as we as we hung up the
(10:17):
phone. He says always stand strong on
the scriptures and God will bless your ministry.
Just stand strong, don't compromise, stand strong.
And 31 years later, God has blessed immensely the ministry
of Christ Community Church and the opportunity that's been
before us. And I praise the Lord.
(10:40):
So over the next several months,I was only at church open door
for 14 months. And over the next once I called
him and talked with him and brought up the speed as to what
was happening. He would give me counsel.
He would give me encouragement. He would talk to me about what
the Bible says. And so that was a unique
opportunity. Well, jump ahead to 2010.
(11:05):
We invited John to come and speak at the church.
He come, he came on a Wednesday evening and he had just written
the book slave. And so he was going to speak on
on that. When he arrived at the church,
I, I took him up to my office and the first thing he said to
me was why are the Christmas trees?
(11:27):
And I said, well, John, it's simply this because I believe a
lot about Christmas. I'm a big Christmas guy.
And my whole belief is that if there's no birth, there's no
death, there's no death, there'sno life.
He said well put, so that's why the Christmas trees are here to
all remind me of that. I asked him.
I said, John, I I want you to dome a favor.
(11:48):
I I would be so honored if you would write the the forward to
my book God sold for your home. He responded by saying I'm
honored that you even asked for me to do so.
To the transcript home wrote theforward to the book and I was
grateful. Few years after that I decided
(12:08):
to take John out to lunch. So I called them up and we we
set up a time to meet together And where does the world's
greatest preacher go to lunch? Carl's junior, where else?
And there we sat eating burgers and fries and sipping our Cokes,
(12:33):
talking about theology and philosophy as a ministry.
And I told him, I said, John, I just want to thank you for the
impact that you made in my life.I said, I don't know how much
longer you have to live or I to live, but I thought, you know
what? It's best for me to personally
thank you for the impact that you've made in my life.
And I went back and rehearsed from the time we met in 1979 to
(12:54):
where we were on that day, so hewould know the impact he made in
me and the church in which I waspastoring.
When you think about that, when you think about his life and you
think about his his ministry, hewas simply the master's man.
(13:19):
He shared the same birth date asCharles Spurgeon.
They were both born on June 19th, 105 years apart, but they
were both born on June the 19th,and Spurgeon was his favorite
preacher. 100 years after Spurgeon's death, he went to
(13:40):
London and visited the grave of Charles Spurgeon because he was
writing the book called Ashamed of the Gospel, And that book is
probably my favorite of all the books that he's written.
Talks about the downgrade of thegospel in Spurgeon's day.
And he was addressing that in our day, how the church has
(14:06):
become like the world and the church has begun to dilute the
gospel. And so in that book, he quotes
Spurgeon voluminously throughoutit because Spurgeon 100 years
earlier had faced the same issues that the church was
facing even today when Spurgeon died.
(14:31):
The one who preached his memorial service had a text.
The text was Revelation 7, Revelation 7, verses 9 and 10.
And what was said about Spurgeonin that day could be said about
(14:52):
John in our day. My wife found this quote.
She gave it to me this past week.
It says this now he, Spurgeon, has left the pulpit forever.
He stands amongst the great multitude who are before the
(15:12):
throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and
palms in their hands. He is not in strange company
there, for the song of those whowaved the palm branch was ever
his theme as he stood at the pulpit.
Salvation to our God, who sitteth up on the throne and and
(15:35):
into the Lamb from the pulpit tothe palm branch, has been for
him a very natural transition. He preached Christ here, He
praises him Yonder. Think about that.
To stand behind the pulpit speaking about the Lord, to
(16:04):
standing with a palm branch singing to the land.
It doesn't get any greater than that.
Solomon was right when he said agood name is better than a good
(16:31):
ointment. In the day of 1's death is
better than the day of 1's birth.
He would go on to say in verse 8of Chapter 7, the end of a
matter is better than its beginning.
In 1969 when John became the pastor Grace Community Church,
(16:53):
that was the beginning. On July 14th, 2025, that was the
end and the end was better than the beginning because in the end
he entered the presence of the living God.
(17:15):
Think about this, in the 1700s the Masters man was Jonathan
Edwards. He led the Great Awakening, the
great revival in American history.
In the 1800's the Masters man was Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
(17:40):
In the 1900's the Masters man was John MacArthur.
Every 100 years God raises up a man, a particular man, the
Masters man. I wonder over the next 100 years
(18:06):
who the next Master's man will be.
I want to pray with you for Grace Community Church from
Patricia, John's wife, his family, that God would do a a
great and mighty work now that he's taking John home.
(18:28):
So let's bow together for a wordof prayer.
Father, we thank you, Lord, for today, and we thank you that
you've taken John into your presence.
All of us to some degree will miss him, some more so than
others. Family, especially his wife
Patricia, the elders and staff at Grace Community, the church
(18:56):
that you allowed him to pastor for 56 years, they will miss
him. They will miss him terribly, and
rightly so. That's because of the impact
that he has made in so many people's lives.
And yet, Lord, we realize that that nobody lives forever.
(19:21):
And then your time in your way, you take them home to be with
you. And we know that Lord, Lord,
that John is in your presence. And we know, Lord, that he
stands before the Lamb, waving apalm branch and singing praises
(19:43):
to the Lamb that was slain to receive glory and honor and
praise. We pray for Grace Community
Church, we pray for their future, pray for their pastors,
their elders, their leaders. Do you give them supreme wisdom
(20:06):
as they begin to search for yourwill and finding the next
shepherd for Grace Community? It won't be easy, but you're in
charge of all that. So we leave that in your hands
(20:27):
Lord, and trust that whole church to your hands.
They have been LED well for 50-6years.
They know. They know what you want them to
do. Help them to enact it in a way
(20:49):
that honors your name. So Lord, we stand before you
today thanking you for the impact that John has made, not
just on my life, our church, butmany of the people's lives that
are here. Many were saved through his
ministry and we are grateful. And so, Lord, our our prayer is
(21:12):
that we would continue to be faithful to you until you come
again, as you most surely will, in Jesus name, Amen.
This morning I want to do something that I've never done
before in the 31 years that we've been together and we'll
probably more than likely never,ever do again.
This morning I want to. I want to give glory to the Lord
for how God has used one man in my life to shape and mold my
(00:21):
ministry, our church, my marriage, my life.
He's more than just a a magnificent man.
He's more than just a magnanimous man.
He's more than just a magnetic man.
(00:43):
He's more than just a marvelous man.
He's even more than just a monumental man.
He is and was the masters man and that man is is John
MacArthur. He went home to be with the Lord
this past Monday evening. It was my wife's birthday.
(01:06):
We were out together and we received the the news on our way
back home. And we thank the Lord for his
ministry, for his life, for his testimony.
And a lot has been said already in the last six days about John
and his ministry and whether whether you love him or you
(01:31):
loathe him, there is no one likehim, and everybody would attest
to that. Even the New York Times called
him a fiery preacher and a culture warrior, which he was.
And many people will say things about John and they'll give
(01:53):
credit to him. And well, so with the, the the
ministry that he had, all the books that he wrote, he wrote
hundreds of them. The sermons that he preached, he
preached thousands of them. They went around the world
literally. And the seminary that was
started under his leadership as well as the college under his
leadership, as well as the Masters Institute or the the
(02:18):
missions outreach of Masters University, as well as grace to
you. And people would be right in
giving honor to him for the things that he has done, all of
his accomplishments. But that's not what made him the
Masters man. Those are great things, but it
goes way beyond that. And I'm afraid that most people
(02:42):
will miss this. And that is for for 56 years,
there was never one hint of a scandal or stain upon the man's
ministry or life. That is the master's man.
That's what makes his ministry so unique.
(03:03):
And think about this. Grace Community Church has
gathered together for the first time in 56 years without their
shepherd. Think about that.
He's been there a long time. He died on Monday, so they
gathered together on Sunday for the first time and John is in
(03:26):
glory. Things are different for for
Grace Community. They will be different into the
future and we will pray for themin a moment.
But John had a unique and powerful impact on my life.
The things I've said to you, youprobably already know.
(03:46):
But what you don't know is that that in 1979 was the first time
I ever met John. He was speaking at Sandy Cove
Bible Conference on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and my father
invited me to come. I was a junior in in college.
It was summertime. He invited me to come and and be
a part of a meeting that my father was going to have along
(04:09):
with the elders from our church in Delaware to meet with John to
discuss issues concerning the church.
And my dad invited me to come and be a part of that meeting.
So I thought that that would be a good thing to do.
Because you see, I grew up through junior high and high
school listening to John on the radio every day in my house.
(04:33):
My, my, my parents would, would turn it up very loud.
We had a two-story house and they wanted to make sure they
they would hear John whether they were in the basement, the
bathroom, the bedroom, no matterwhere they were, they wanted to
hear his voice. And so by virtue of that, I
couldn't help but hear John's voice.
(04:57):
In fact, I was reminded by one of my college roommates this
past week that we used to listento to John all the time in
college. We would get cassette tapes and
we would listen to John and plugthem in.
And a lot of it dealt with this question and answers.
I, I still have this in my possession.
(05:17):
This is how they used to come out in cassette tapes and they,
they listed all the questions inthere for you and which tape
they were on so that you would know where they were.
And so we would sit as college students listening to John and
then pause it to see if we couldanswer the question before John
(05:38):
answered the question. That was one of the ways we
learned in college. I have a numerous amount of
tapes in my office. I, I don't even have a cassette
player anymore. But anyway, that's, that's what
we used to do. And John came to, to preach on
the fulfilled family in 1979. And I still have the, the study
(05:59):
guide from what he, what he preached on, He used to send
these out in the mail for free to all those radio listeners who
requested them. And they were called study
guides. And this was the one on the
fulfilled family. I have hundreds of these in my
office as well that I've kept over the years simply because
this is the way it used to be. Now he's written his commentary,
(06:20):
so it's a lot different. But I kept those simply because
of of the impact they made in mylife.
And so my father invited me to meet with John and his elders.
And so we sat down and I listened.
And what struck me most about the conversation, I didn't say a
(06:40):
word, was that whenever John wasasked a question by my father or
by the elders of our church, John always responded by saying
what the Bible says, or God commands us to do this, or the
Scriptures are very clear about this.
Everything was about the Word ofGod.
That was the authority, and so when I listened to him, I
(07:00):
realized he spoke with not only great authority but great
clarity concerning the Scriptures because he backed up
everything he said with the wordof the living God.
That made a great impact on me as a junior in college.
I would continue to listen to his tapes.
In fact, Laurie and I, we lived in in Tarrytown, NY when we were
(07:24):
married, and I used to jump ropefor an hour consecutively
listening to the tapes of John MacArthur because each tape was
just about an hour long. And so I would time my jump
roping according to his sermon on that day.
I don't do that anymore because I don't jump rope anymore.
(07:46):
That's something in the past. But anyway, that's what I used
to do. We used to mark up the floor
with the jump rope that used to go around and around and around
and around. And that's what I used to do.
Listen to John move forward 15 years later to 1994.
I just begun the pastor of church the Open Door.
(08:08):
And having been there, I encountered much conflict
theologically as well as morally, simply because theology
always determines your morality,right?
And so while I was there, I was engaged in, in much conflict.
(08:29):
And so I thought that it would be good for me to, to call John.
So I did. And it was different than it is
today. In those days, you could call
the church and someone would actually answer the phone and
they would direct you to the, tothe that person you were
calling. Today, you don't do that
anymore. You call and you get some kind
(08:51):
of machine that tells you this or or that we've we've gotten so
technical. But back then everything was was
personal lot different back in the early 90s.
And so I called and, and, and spoke with the secretary and she
said something really unique. She said, hold on Lance and let
me get him for you. I was perplexed that she would
(09:14):
call me Lance. Not that I don't want to be
called Lance. It's just that she didn't call
me Pastor or Mr. Sparks. She said Lance.
And so I was kind of taken back by that, but I soon realized why
she did. And she connected me with John
and and John got on and said, hello, Lance, how are you today?
I understand you're going through a rough time at church.
(09:34):
The open door. I said, yes, I am.
But how did you know? He said, well, we've been
following your ministry very closely.
Well, we knew you came from Calvary Church of Santa Ana and
we knew that theologically therewas a difference in terms of
what you believed and what church the Open Door believed
concerning repentance in the Lordship of Christ.
(09:56):
And so we knew that there would be some discrepancy there.
We just didn't know how long it would take for the conflict to
erupt. So we've been praying for you
over this time. So explain to me, he says, what
is happening. So I did, I went through the
details of what had taken place since I arrived at the church
and I'll never forget what he said as we as we hung up the
(10:17):
phone. He says always stand strong on
the scriptures and God will bless your ministry.
Just stand strong, don't compromise, stand strong.
And 31 years later, God has blessed immensely the ministry
of Christ Community Church and the opportunity that's been
before us. And I praise the Lord.
(10:40):
So over the next several months,I was only at church open door
for 14 months. And over the next once I called
him and talked with him and brought up the speed as to what
was happening. He would give me counsel.
He would give me encouragement. He would talk to me about what
the Bible says. And so that was a unique
opportunity. Well, jump ahead to 2010.
(11:05):
We invited John to come and speak at the church.
He come, he came on a Wednesday evening and he had just written
the book slave. And so he was going to speak on
on that. When he arrived at the church,
I, I took him up to my office and the first thing he said to
me was why are the Christmas trees?
(11:27):
And I said, well, John, it's simply this because I believe a
lot about Christmas. I'm a big Christmas guy.
And my whole belief is that if there's no birth, there's no
death, there's no death, there'sno life.
He said well put, so that's why the Christmas trees are here to
all remind me of that. I asked him.
I said, John, I I want you to dome a favor.
(11:48):
I I would be so honored if you would write the the forward to
my book God sold for your home. He responded by saying I'm
honored that you even asked for me to do so.
To the transcript home wrote theforward to the book and I was
grateful. Few years after that I decided
(12:08):
to take John out to lunch. So I called them up and we we
set up a time to meet together And where does the world's
greatest preacher go to lunch? Carl's junior, where else?
And there we sat eating burgers and fries and sipping our Cokes,
(12:33):
talking about theology and philosophy as a ministry.
And I told him, I said, John, I just want to thank you for the
impact that you made in my life.I said, I don't know how much
longer you have to live or I to live, but I thought, you know
what? It's best for me to personally
thank you for the impact that you've made in my life.
And I went back and rehearsed from the time we met in 1979 to
(12:54):
where we were on that day, so hewould know the impact he made in
me and the church in which I waspastoring.
When you think about that, when you think about his life and you
think about his his ministry, hewas simply the master's man.
(13:19):
He shared the same birth date asCharles Spurgeon.
They were both born on June 19th, 105 years apart, but they
were both born on June the 19th,and Spurgeon was his favorite
preacher. 100 years after Spurgeon's death, he went to
(13:40):
London and visited the grave of Charles Spurgeon because he was
writing the book called Ashamed of the Gospel, And that book is
probably my favorite of all the books that he's written.
Talks about the downgrade of thegospel in Spurgeon's day.
And he was addressing that in our day, how the church has
(14:06):
become like the world and the church has begun to dilute the
gospel. And so in that book, he quotes
Spurgeon voluminously throughoutit because Spurgeon 100 years
earlier had faced the same issues that the church was
facing even today when Spurgeon died.
(14:31):
The one who preached his memorial service had a text.
The text was Revelation 7, Revelation 7, verses 9 and 10.
And what was said about Spurgeonin that day could be said about
(14:52):
John in our day. My wife found this quote.
She gave it to me this past week.
It says this now he, Spurgeon, has left the pulpit forever.
He stands amongst the great multitude who are before the
(15:12):
throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and
palms in their hands. He is not in strange company
there, for the song of those whowaved the palm branch was ever
his theme as he stood at the pulpit.
Salvation to our God, who sitteth up on the throne and and
(15:35):
into the Lamb from the pulpit tothe palm branch, has been for
him a very natural transition. He preached Christ here, He
praises him Yonder. Think about that.
To stand behind the pulpit speaking about the Lord, to
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standing with a palm branch singing to the land.
It doesn't get any greater than that.
Solomon was right when he said agood name is better than a good
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ointment. In the day of 1's death is
better than the day of 1's birth.
He would go on to say in verse 8of Chapter 7, the end of a
matter is better than its beginning.
In 1969 when John became the pastor Grace Community Church,
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that was the beginning. On July 14th, 2025, that was the
end and the end was better than the beginning because in the end
he entered the presence of the living God.
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Think about this, in the 1700s the Masters man was Jonathan
Edwards. He led the Great Awakening, the
great revival in American history.
In the 1800's the Masters man was Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
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In the 1900's the Masters man was John MacArthur.
Every 100 years God raises up a man, a particular man, the
Masters man. I wonder over the next 100 years
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who the next Master's man will be.
I want to pray with you for Grace Community Church from
Patricia, John's wife, his family, that God would do a a
great and mighty work now that he's taking John home.
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So let's bow together for a wordof prayer.
Father, we thank you, Lord, for today, and we thank you that
you've taken John into your presence.
All of us to some degree will miss him, some more so than
others. Family, especially his wife
Patricia, the elders and staff at Grace Community, the church
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that you allowed him to pastor for 56 years, they will miss
him. They will miss him terribly, and
rightly so. That's because of the impact
that he has made in so many people's lives.
And yet, Lord, we realize that that nobody lives forever.
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And then your time in your way, you take them home to be with
you. And we know that Lord, Lord,
that John is in your presence. And we know, Lord, that he
stands before the Lamb, waving apalm branch and singing praises
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to the Lamb that was slain to receive glory and honor and
praise. We pray for Grace Community
Church, we pray for their future, pray for their pastors,
their elders, their leaders. Do you give them supreme wisdom
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as they begin to search for yourwill and finding the next
shepherd for Grace Community? It won't be easy, but you're in
charge of all that. So we leave that in your hands
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Lord, and trust that whole church to your hands.
They have been LED well for 50-6years.
They know. They know what you want them to
do. Help them to enact it in a way
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that honors your name. So Lord, we stand before you
today thanking you for the impact that John has made, not
just on my life, our church, butmany of the people's lives that
are here. Many were saved through his
ministry and we are grateful. And so, Lord, our our prayer is
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that we would continue to be faithful to you until you come
again, as you most surely will, in Jesus name, Amen.
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