“¿Cómo podemos vivir en una sociedad pagana de una manera que honre a Dios, de tal manera que no alienemos a las mismas personas que Dios quiere alcanzar con el evangelio? Debemos recordar dedicarnos a buenas obras, que las Escrituras dicen serán el resultado de nuestra salvación. Pablo resume esto muy bien en Tito 3.8: «Palabra fiel es esta, y en estas cosas quiero que insistas con firmeza, para que los que creen en Dios procuren ocuparse en buenas obras. Estas cosas son buenas y útiles a los hombres». Simplemente tenemos que entender y obedecer todas las instrucciones del apóstol, por medio del Espíritu Santo, que nos da acerca de qué significa el cuerpo de Cristo y cómo el mismo debe funcionar en la tierra. Su primer llamado no es a cambiar su cultura, a reformar la conducta moral externa y profesar convicciones políticas de los que le rodean, o para rehacer la sociedad superficialmente, de acuerdo con una especie de «plan maestro cristiano evangélico». En su lugar, siempre debe recordar que el Señor le ha llamado a ser su testigo ante el mundo perdido y condenado en el que ahora vivimos. Esta misión es mucho más «buenas y útiles a los hombres» que cualquier cantidad de activismo social y político. Tales esfuerzos pueden renovar la vida de la gente hacia fuera, pero no pueden transformar sus corazones y llevarlos a una relación salvadora con Jesucristo. Esta transformación final ocurrirá solo cuando usted y otros creyentes fieles alegremente realizan sus deberes cristianos, recuerden su anterior condición perdida y su actual condición de salvo, y luego diligentemente hagan «buenas obras».”
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John F. MacArthur, Jr. is a fifth-generation preacher who serves as a pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. He is also a prolific author, conference speaker, and is president of The Master's College and Seminary. MacArthur received a B.A. from Los Angeles Pacific College, his M.Div. from Talbot Theological Seminary, Litt.D. at Grace Graduate School, and D.D. from Talbot Theological Seminary. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, he regularly teaches Expository Preaching at the seminary and frequently speaks in chapel.
MacArthur's pulpit ministry has been extended around the globe through his media ministry, Grace to You, and its satellite offices in Australia, Canada, Europe, India, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa. In addition to producing daily radio programs for nearly 2,000 English and Spanish radio outlets worldwide, Grace to You distributes books, software, audiotapes, and CDs by John MacArthur. In thirty-six years of ministry, Grace to You has distributed more than thirteen million CDs and audiotapes.
John Fullerton MacArthur, Jr. is a United States evangelical writer and minister, noted for his radio program entitled Grace to You. MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker and has served as the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969, and as the President of The Master's College (and the related The Master's Seminary) in Santa Clarita, California.
Theologically, MacArthur is a conservative far-right Baptist, a strong proponent of expository preaching, a dispensationalist and a self-described Calvinist. He has been acknowledged by Christianity Today as one of the most influential preachers of his time, and is a frequent guest on Larry King Live as representative of an evangelical Christian perspective.
MacArthur has authored or edited more than 150 books, most notably the MacArthur Study Bible, which has sold more than 1 million copies and received a Gold Medallion Book Award. Other best-selling books include his MacArthur New Testament Commentary Series (more than 1 million copies), Twelve Ordinary Men, (more than 500,000 copies), and the children's book A Faith to Grow On, which garnered an ECPA Christian Book Award.