John MacArthur’s long-time friendship (and continued friendship) with ecumenical Billy Graham.

John MacArthur would seem to be not working with ecumenical Billy Graham since Mr. Graham’s false one-world religion promotion, especially shown in the 1997 conversation between Billy Graham and Mr. Robert Schuller about the “wideness” of God’s mercy, where both men completely contradicted God’s Word (Matthew 7:13-14, 7:21-23, Mark 8:34-38, John 14:21-24…).

But, the truth about Mr. MacArthur is that he’s really, really good at speaking out of both sides of his mouth. Simply put – he lies. A lot. Sadly, I didn’t realize that until his adding to the Book of Revelation concerning the “mark of the beast” just a few years ago. My team and I still own 1000s of dollars worth of Mr. MacArthur’s materials and studies, and we’re continually shocked on how many intentional lies he tells.

So, with that shocking intro, let’s look together on what Mr. MacArthur has been covering up for his good and long-time friend Billy Graham.

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I Think I’m Disappointed with John MacArthur. I hope Not.

https://bobbixby.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/i-think-im-disappointed-with-john-macarthur-i-hope-not/

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Bob Bixby

“I can’t understand John MacArthur.

Why is he speaking at the Billy Graham Training Center’s Pastors’ Institute?

> Source: http://www.bgtc.info/event.aspx?eventid=384&typeid=5

Why do you go to a pastors’ retreat hosted by Byends of Fairspeech? Especially when you have gone on the record as approving the conclusion of Ian Murray’s “Evangelicalism Divided” and at the last “Together for the Gospel Conference” publicly rebuked Billy Graham? Could it be that the BGEA is attempting to massage the one most likely to point them out at the next Together for the Gospel Conference? How slick of the BGEA to cordially invite the very man, and the only man, who was the clearest at the last T4G about the need to articulate a separatistic stance toward those who were compromising key elements of the Gospel…”

Additional helpful information in the comments section of the article:

Don Johnson, on March 18, 2008 at 12:43 am said:

Well, if you look at the rest of the schedule, the next three day’s following the Pastor’s Institute, MacA will be teaching a seminar on the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son at the Cove. Entitled “The Great Joy of Jesus” this seminar will give you “a fascinating look into the heart of the Good Shepherd” as the promo says.

It doesn’t sound like this is a one shot prophetic deal, but part and parcel of a whole program of participation.

FWIW

Regards
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3

Jon Bell, on March 23, 2008 at 5:47 am said:

I contacted some folks about this and found that the Cove gave JMac an open invitation to speak on whatever he wanted so he is going. It is concerning as Bob said because rubbing elbows with inclusivists seems to tie yourself to them. We will just have to see what Dr. MacArthur actually says while there.
BTW, Glorious Easter to everyone! He is really risen!!

>> Source link: https://bobbixby.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/i-think-im-disappointed-with-john-macarthur-i-hope-not/

-- Proof that John MacArthur was at the Cove:

Nancy B. (Mrs. Microphone) asks John MacArthur a question at his “The Great Joy of Jesus” at the Cove.

>> Source: http://bertbrim.blogspot.com/2008/04/q-with-dr-john-macarthur.html?m=0

MacArthur speaking at Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College
In July 1988, MacArthur spoke at the Congress on the Church and the Disabled at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, which featured Roman Catholic and New Evangelical speakers (Moody Monthly, Oct. 1988).
>> Source link: http://www.sflforums.com/printthread.php?tid=538&page=3

John MacArthur’s Dad, “Jack” MacArthur, was on the extended staff at Moody Bible
In “The Voice of Calvary Legacy,” John Macarthur stated that his father, in addition to being the Director of the Fuller Evangelistic Foundation, “served on the Extension Staff of Moody Bible Institute.” In 1941, The Moody Bible Institute played a key role in the formation of the NAE. According to Rick Meisel, John Macarthur has served on the Board of Trustees of the Moody Bible Institute. 118.

In “The Voice of Calvary Legacy,” John Macarthur also stated that his father “helped establish the Hollywood Christian group, an outreach to people in the film and television industries. Jack Macarthur counted Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, who came to Christ under his preaching, as close personal friends.” Since Henrietta Mears is credited with founding The Hollywood Christian Group, one can assume that John Macarthur’s father, Jack Macarthur, “who helped establish the Hollywood Christian Group,” was her friend and co-worker.
>> Source link: http://johnmacarthurexposed.blogspot.com/

A pastor from “First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood” inspires Mrs. Mears to start her ecumenical career:
Dr. MacLennan was instrumental in persuading Henrietta Mears to take the position as Director of Christian Education, where for 35 years, from 1928-1963...

The Rev. Dr. Richard Halverson joined the staff during which time he helped develop World Vision and International Christian Leadership.
>> Source link: http://www.fpchollywood.org/about-us/our-history

-- This is Will Graham (grandson of Billy and current president of BGEA) explaining how Billy Graham started his career through Henrietta Mears and her Forest Home Retreat Center.

The Tree Stump Prayer: When Billy Graham Overcame Doubt

By Will Graham   •   July 9, 2014

Picture caption: Billy Graham preached at Forest Home in the early days of his ministry.

[Excerpts from the article]

“Everything we know of the ministry of Billy Graham from the late 1940s on – the massive stadium events, the evangelistic movies, the radio programs, the counseling of presidents and kings – hinged on a singular moment in history that took place at the California retreat center of Forest Home…”

“I visited Forest Home last year to get a fresh perspective on my grandfather’s story, and I’m returning there next week to speak at their annual Summer Family Camp…”

“It was at this time that my discouraged grandfather reluctantly accepted the invitation of Henrietta Mears to visit and speak at a Christian retreat center called Forest Home. Mears had worked at First Baptist Church in Minneapolis for Pastor Riley, who was also my grandfather’s predecessor at Northwestern, and she was a very well-known and godly woman. She would end up having a huge impact in Hollywood, Calif., as she served as the director of Christian Education at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. She took grief for inviting him to speak because he was not part of the camp’s denomination, but God had a plan in all of this…”

“The resulting change did not go unnoticed. The next day my granddaddy spoke at Forest Home, and 400 people made a commitment to Christ. Henrietta Mears remarked that he “preached with authority” that she hadn’t seen before from him…”

“This was August 1949, and mere weeks later Billy Graham would go on to hold the historic 1949 Los Angeles Crusade in the tent erected on the corner of Washington and Hill Streets…”

>> Source link: https://billygraham.org/story/the-tree-stump-prayer-where-billy-graham-overcame-doubt/

-- This is Billy Graham and Harold Ockenga, both friends of Henrietta Mears, working together. Henrietta Mears, friend of Jack MacArthur, motivated Graham and friends, and then commissioned them in 1947 and after:

Harold Ockenga – (excerpts from this article)

“He was with Fuller from 1947-1954 as  president, and then as a trustee from 1959-63. He was also Director of the Christian Freedom Foundation and a member of President Truman's Clergymen's Mission to Europe in 1947. He taught at Henrietta Mears's Forest Home Christian Conference Center…”

“Besides being first President and co-founder of Fuller Theological Seminary, Harold Ockenga was, along with J. Edwin Orr, Co-Founder of the National Association of Evangelicals in 1942.  He served as President of both the National Association of Evangelicals and the World Evangelical Fellowship, which are merely the national and world organizations of the same thing. Christianity Today which was the New Evangelicalism report, had its birth in 1956 as the brainchild of Billy Graham and his father-in-law, Dr. L. Nelson Bell. Dr. Ockenga was Chairman of the Board from 1956-1985. In 1966, he was one of three featured speakers at the World Congress on Evangelism…”

“Dr. Ockenga also helped found Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary >http://www.gcts.edu/ > in 1969 and was President of it and Gordon College from 1969-1985. "The Conwell School of Theology and Gordon Divinity School merged in 1969 through the efforts of philanthropist J. Howard Pew, Dr. Harold J. Ockenga and Dr. Billy Graham...Dr. Ockenga, the long-time pastor of Boston's historic Park Street Church, became the new institution's first president. Dr. Ockenga retired in 1979 but maintained an active emeritus relationship with the school and served as member of the Board of Trustees until his death in 1985" Dr. Billy Graham is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees. (Ockenga was among other things also: Trustee Gordon College, Boston. Trustee Suffolk University, 1939-1949. Board directors Billy Graham Evangelical Association. President Truman’s Clergymen’s Mission to Europe, 1947, VP World Evangelical Fellowship since 1951; Director of Billy Graham Association.)

Henrietta Mears – (excerpts from the same article)

Henrietta presented her theology as "the Cause of Christ," which meant winning the world to Christ and establishing Christianity as the guiding force in society [recontructionist theology] through evangelization of the world. The Fellowship of the Burning Heart, established by Mears at Forest Home, was where she encouraged her students to be willing to die for "the Cause of Christ." She laid her hands on them to receive her mantle, hence, receiving within themselves a "burning heart." 

In 1947 she gave a speech at The Forest Home which resulted in motivating and calling what were later called the "acceptable anointed evangelists" namely Billy Graham, Richard Halverson, Bill Bright and several others…” 

>> Source link: http://www.seekgod.ca/fuller1.htm#evans

-- Billy Graham was on the Board of Trustees, with Harold Ockenga, at Fuller Seminary and Rick Warren received his Doctorate in Ministry from Fuller Seminary.

“John Macarthur’s father was the Director of Fuller Evangelistic Foundation. Charles Fuller, the founder of the Fuller Evangelistic Foundation, also cofounded Fuller Theological Seminary and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). Charles Fuller co-founded the NAE with J Edwin Orr and Harold Ockenga, the first President of the NAE (1942-44), and the first President of Fuller Seminary in 1947…”

“In 1951, the NAE revived the World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF) from the “dying embers” of the former World Evangelical Alliance (Evangelical Alliance of 1846) which became the NAE’s international umbrella. As previously stated, the Evangelical Alliance, now called the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), was formed in 1846 in a conference held at Freemason’s Hall, United Grand Lodge of England, the mother of all Masonic lodges. 3….”

>> Source link: http://www.thewatchmanwakes.com/John-Macarthur-father-Ecumenical-movement-Fuller-Seminary.html

-- 2004 book that MacArthur wrote with Billy Graham and friends:

PASSION WITH A PURPOSE: 40 DAYS WITH GOD $2.99

This Easter booklet is a collection of inspirational thoughts from Billy Graham, Max Lucado, Anne Graham Lotz, John MacArthur, and Charles Swindoll.
>> Source link: http://www.billygrahambookstore.org/bibles-and-devotionals/passion-with-a-purpose-40-days-with-god.html

-- Article by Washington Times dated December 08, 2016:

“3 religion and ethics headlines for your Thursday”

John MacArthur on the virgin birth; survey results about assisted suicide; Billy Graham and the Fixer Uppers

>> Source link: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/8/3-religion-and-ethics-headlines-for-your-thursday/

- - John MacArthur’s articles in and/or “used by permission” in the Billy Graham magazine:

https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/december-2016/assault-virgin-birth/

https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/july-august-2014/not-ashamed-of-christ/

https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/november-2009/giving-thanks-in-everything/

In Conclusion:
We have 8 articles asking why John MacArthur was at the 100 year anniversary celebration at Moody Bible Institute, with key-note speaker, Billy Graham, and other one world religion notables. If it’s true, we cannot find verification – meaning, Mr. MacArthur is not on the list at the Moody Founder’s Week archives. And there are no videos available of him there either. So, if you find any information from 1986 that could help, please share it with us. Thank you. We do have video and archive verification of Billy Graham at that celebration. We did find that Mr. MacArthur has spoken at Moody Bible Institute since 1977.