John MacArthur World, 4/14/25
In this eye-opening 26-minute motivational speech, Pastor John MacArthur explores a rarely discussed but deeply relevant topic: Why do God’s chosen ones walk away from church? This message is not a call to rebellion, but a spiritual awakening for believers who have been wounded, disillusioned, or spiritually suffocated by religious systems that no longer reflect the heart of Christ.
Through powerful biblical insights and convicting truth, you’ll discover the real reasons many faithful believers step away from church buildings—not from God. This is a must-watch if you’ve ever felt misunderstood, misplaced, or spiritually dry in your church community.
🕰️ Timestamps with Emojis 00:00 –
Welcome & Introduction 🔔 01:35 – The Burden of Religious Tradition
🏛️ 04:50 – Who Are the Chosen Ones?
🙏 08:15 – Signs You Are Being Spiritually Stifled
⚠️ 12:00 – Biblical Examples of Walking Away
✝️ 15:45 – When the Church No Longer Feeds the Soul
🍞 19:20 – Separation Without Rebellion
🚪 22:10 – Returning to the Heart of Worship
❤️🔥 25:00 – Final Thoughts & Prayer
🙌 26:00 – Outro & Reflection 🔄
I listened to the firsr segment called Welcome and Introduction and found it to be an excellent description of what’s Christian and what’s not.
I have another take on that, an older argument once called ‘separation of church and state’. Thomas Jefferson used that phrase when writing to an acquaintance about the workings of the new Republic. That later became known as ‘secularism’ which meant that civic functions were free to work without the governance of any church body. However, that freedom wasn’t absolute since those functions were still beholden to the Christian ethics and moral laws beginning with the Constitution and its Amendments.
The late atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair sought to use that phrase to claim that an absolute sovereignty existed in the secular state, which it didn’t.
The problem is that the secular state became ‘immoral and irreligious’ and sought to function outside the built-in Christian moral ethic, to function like a Godless atheist entity. They have now instituted immoral laws to replace moral Christian laws in a direct challenge to Christianity itself.
I’d say that’s what we Christians are facing – a corrupted secularism with a heathen depraved immorality.
Pastor McArthur explains the difference between the two quite well.