What Should I Look For In A Church? John MacArthur answers 

I left my old church that I served for 6 years in college because I was not cared for by the leaders and had zero accountability and barely saw any of the members during the week, the church also had zero community groups during the week for fellowship. I barely knew my pastor and felt like he didnt care about me because he evidently showed little interest in me, I served on the worship team for 3 1/2 years. Its amazing how you can be serving publicly on stage and be invisible to the leadership. God provided a great church transition and community after college which was a God send. Praise God. Your spiritual health is everything. The Church of Jesus Christ is not shallow, yes it is broken but there is no excuse for Church leadership to not care for the spiritual health for its members.

Amen! We left a church that is all about theology but weak friendship/family relationships in Christ.

John MacArthur's illustration is amazing 😍😍😍😍

I legit though he was gonna say reformed period. I may not be Calvinist but I love my brother john. God bless you.

Greetings from Westwood Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee! 3:28 "You desperately need that--you need shepherds in your life." Yes! You cannot obey the commands to submit to elders if you're not a member of a local church. And you cannot obey the commands to love one another if you're not a member of a local church. You need the local church. If you claim to trust in Jesus but keep his bride at an arm's length, you're deceiving yourself and must repent.

A healthy church is a church without cliques. Also a church which believes in the finished work of Jesus Christ. What I mean is Jesus actually saved his people on the cross, most churches teach that Jesus only made it possible to be saved that you have to do good works also or else you can lose your eternal salvation. Jesus actually saved us on the cross, our good works save us from corruption in this life it has nothing to do with eternal salvation. Nothing but the blood of Jesus,

This wonderful and true

Thanks for these shorts with your guests answers. Love your show and so blessed by it. Thank you Lord for the love of your children for each other. You're so special Lord and so so worthy of our love. All glory to you Jesus Christ our Lord 🤍✝️🤍 Lastly uncle John has blessed my life in ways I thought unimaginable. Praise the Lord for him and his devotion to the word of God. "Legend in his own right". Love you pastor Johnny Mac ❤️

wow! now this made me feel grateful to the LORD for leading me to a church that truly demonstrates who He is!

John 3:16

It's hard to find a church like that nowadays. I desire to be apart of that church that Pastor John described.

Every church I’ve gone to with my Protestant wife all the pastors have said they are all a bible believing church. And yet I have noticed that they all disagree on different things. what those pastors should say instead should be “this is a bible believing church according to my own personal interpretation of the bible”

“Look past the music” is a great call. As a related question for anyone who can provide me with any links to related videos or resources… Why is modern Christian music so, for lack of a better word “bad”? I can appreciate trying to make a joyful noise and at church most people like myself are not trained musicians, but…. Even if we’re talking a production quality of infinity (e.g. Hillsong Churches), they just seem to crank out very schlocky music. It’s almost all one genre (slow contemporary) and none of it is catchy. We do not generate “earworms” type songs that get stuck in your head. It’s if we’re being honest kind of painful for most people to hear Christian music not because they hate the lyrics but because we are content to turn out really really lackluster sounds with which to praise the Lord. Meanwhile “Rockin’ Robin” that’s an innocent song, I don’t think it’s creator made some devilish pact to get the lyrics, etc…. And we don’t have anything on par except for maybe Spirit in the Sky but that was a while back. What musical quality makes Christian music so very not catchy? Why doesn’t it make people dance?

I never found such a thing as a healthy Church. Jesus is My Teacher and Provider..He is All and Everything I Need. ❤

how do you evaluate a church which handles the Word of God accurately, a pastor that fits biblical qualifications, but however, love among the members are very noticeably missing? assuming there are no other church in the area where I live

so denomination doesnt matter? im having such a hard time looking for a church because some say calvanists are bad others arminians are bad and it makes finding a church difficult.

Listening to john macarthur and his calvinist teachings only made me doubt constantly whether or not I was saved.

Only thing I disagree with is the statement to look past the music. The lyrics of the songs in the mouths of the saints matter. A church should sing theologically sound music focused on the glory of God, in addition to receiving strong teaching to the glory of God.

"Look past the music" 100% music is so overrated in the church.

An Eastern Catholic Church.

‘Church’ is largely filled with the unregenerate on Sunday.

Wish there was a church like that in my area. I watch sermons on TV or on RU-vid

Having a form of Godliness but denying the power there of have nothing to do with such people.

How can we find this kind of church if they are all self-proclaimed that they have the TRUTH. Are they have different Bible? 😢

My former church was undermining itself by allowing the pastors wife to use charismatic study material for the womens group and conferences. Furthermore, my former church was sadly about black excellence. Im here for the Word, not black excellence and feminist driven Women Groups and Women Conferences

What about if your church welcomes gays and has a woman senior pastor?

“Two or more are gathered” you took that out of context

Even a Christian cannot brush aside the worship of Jehovah as God. In Revelation 1:5 the Son of God called himself "Jesus Christ, 'The Faithful Witness.'" When on earth as a man he was a Jew, an Israelite, to whose nation the words of Isaiah 43:10 were written: "'You are my witnesses, ' is the utterance of Jehovah, 'even my servant whom I have chosen.'" Jesus demonstrated that he was a faithful and true witness of Jehovah God. His genuine disciples today must be the same kind of witnesses, Jehovah's.

How to find a holy church The elect is the only true church A body of believers scattered Thruout the world!

Since you're asking John MacArthur what a healthy church is, I can't help but give my 2 cent. I attended a church in the Los Angeles County and we had church members who also attended John MacArthur's church plus we have had members of John's church visit our church. In the last 40 years, all these people have the same thing in common - they were all theology correct yet morally corrupt. They make fun of new believers who need help in correcting their theology. They are condescending towards people who don't understand scripture as well as they do. People who barely came to know to Christ need gentleness and compassion because they taking small baby steps in growing in their relationship with Christ. MacArthur's fellowers laugh at people who don't know Bible stories as well as they do rather than helping them understand the scriptures. They call them woke or Democrats for being stupid over petty Bible verses when they just need a loving brethren who will come along side them to help them understand the Bible.

Regretting to tell, honour the Godly men when they sit before you and sit properly before them. Please do it.

Hard preaching makes soft people.

Make sure it does not teach dispensationalism!

If you're not a member, there's no church discipline.

They didn't have healthy churches in the Bible

Huh??? Ask the Pastor these three questions and ask for pointed answers 1. Is homosexuality a sin worthy of an eternity in hell 2. Is remarriage adultery a sin and worthy of an eternity in hell 3. Is there a role for a gifted woman to teach in the Church. If you’re feeling brave ask them of they intend to purify the congregation by preaching repentance, and change in their life or face disfellowshipping/excommunication.

The perfect church on Earth does not exist and you cannot make the perfect church. If you can prove me wrong and find this church DO NOT JOIN IT!!! If you do you will spoil it.

Its always about doctrines with these Calvin loving preachers, as though reformers are the only ones who know 'true' doctrines. They pick and choose scriptures that agree with Calvin, and ignore or twist their obvious meaning with verbal salad! John 3:16 says what it says and any effort to change its meaning is FALSE TEACHING!!!!!

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the right one. Prove me wrong.

Jesus said, "Go and sin no more." John McArthur teaches that as Christians we will still sin but we will sin less. He has contradicted Jesus and he has undermined the instructions that Jesus left us to live by. That would make him a false teacher who has distorted God's word. BEWARE!

Joseph Smith: God which church should I join? God: Join none of them. God’s answer was better then Johnny Macs.