Spending the Rest of Your Life Teaching Sound Doctrine

Sound Doctrine Is Not Optional

If you're going to enter the ministry, whether as a missionary or a pastor, you will spend the rest of your life (if you're faithful) teaching sound doctrine. That's what you will do.

So systematic theology—biblical doctrine—is not optional. You can't say, "Well, I'm not really interested in doctrine, I just want to minister to people." The only way you can minister to people is to teach them what God has revealed as true.

We live our beliefs. People have to believe in something. We live in a day of tolerance and wanting to let everyone have their own viewpoint—your truth and my truth might be two different things, but we're each entitled to our own truth.

Biblical Doctrine

John MacArthur, Richard Mayhue

Systematizing the robust theology that has undergirded John MacArthur’s well-known preaching ministry for decades, this comprehensive overview of basic doctrines taught in the Bible will give Christians a solid foundation for what they believe.

That is an absolute lie. There is absolute truth—the truth contained in Scripture. You have to understand the truth of Scripture because that is what ministry is—it is conveying and communicating sound doctrine so that people can understand it, then believe it, then hold it as a set of convictions, and then live it and declare it.

John MacArthur is the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, where he has served since 1969. He is known around the world for his verse-by-verse expository preaching and his pulpit ministry via his daily radio program, Grace to You. He has also written or edited nearly four hundred books and study guides. MacArthur is chancellor emeritus of the Master’s Seminary and Master’s University. He and his wife, Patricia, live in Southern California and have four grown children.