Breaking: John MacArthur Restructures GCC in Light of Scandal, Brings on Beth Moore as ‘Consultant’
Stay the course. This too will come to pass.
In memos obtained exclusively by Protestia, Pastor John Macarthur of Grace Community Church is set to announce to the congregation this coming Sunday that the elders have approved a restructuring plan for the California megachurch. This is the result of hemorrhaging membership, plummeting giving, and widespread walkouts that have been going on at the Master’s Seminary over the last month, on account of investigative journalist Julie Roys’ blistering articles detailing the famous coverup and complicity in child abuse by the church. (see Here, Here and Here) for more information.
Taking place at a members meeting following the last service, MacArthur is revealing that ever since this article brought Christendom to a standstill, detailing the abusive way that GCC has been handling their church discipline process, membership is down nearly 70%, giving down 80% and that over 700 students at their seminary engaged in a walk-out holding signs and marching around the administrative building, chanting “Ay-Oh, Ay-Oh, John MacArthur’s got to go!” Reportedly, there hasn’t been a baptism or salvation at the church since the first article dropped.
Furthermore, nearly half their international missionary contingency have asked to return stateside, saying that they cannot minister effectively when, to quote one Missionary Dred Hutler, “every third word out of the native’s mouth is ‘David Gray’ and I have no idea what to tell them anymore.”
While MacArthur will be going on Fox News’ Todd Starnes show on a mini-media blitz to try to undo some of the damage and detail the changes happening at the church, we can confirm that one of Roy’s casualties will be longtime mainstay Phil Johnson, who tendered his resignation at the beginning of the week and who has been a bitter foe of Roys. Phil does not intend to publicly reveal his future plans for now, but we have learned that now that he’s no longer associated and formally tied to GCC, he will finally be taking up heretic-enabler Dr. Michael Brown’s multiple offers to debate and relitigate the Stange Fire at the start of the summer, something he’s been dying to do forever, but was unable to due to a social media clause in his contract forbidding him from acting testily towards the charismatic gadfly.
In what is perhaps the most drastic turn of events, the senior leadership team brought on several PR consultants and “church culture auditors” to review how the breakdown occurred, hiring Julie Roys herself to lead the investigation. Given broad powers, and perhaps enjoying a taste of irony, Roys brought on Beth Moore and tasked her with reviewing the harmful effects that complementarianism has had on the church. The rest of the team is made up primarily of the group that just concluded investigating Hillsong. Reportedly, they’ve been there for several days already behind the scenes and already found several instances of the inevitable culture of fear and silence that the patriarchy brings.
A source close to Moore told us she only agreed to help and put herself back in the public eye and open herself to critique on the condition that she’d also be able to include a few of her books in the GCC library, get a snapshot of her and MacArthur (which we’ve obtained above) and preach the next Mothers Day sermon, laughingly remarking at one point:
“Three years John MacArthur told me to ‘go home’. Who could have thought back then that he’d meant his own?!”
While we at Protestia understand the pressure that exists when an article so universally acclaimed, immaculately researched, and profusely praised can ruin 40 years of ministry and cause unmitigated chaos within a church, grinding them to a standstill and causing all their supporters to turn on them, we would encourage MacArthur and the elders at GCC not to give in to the demands of these theological harpies.
Stay the course. This too will come to pass.
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