Posted on 08/31/2021 6:51:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a settlement to Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, who kept their doors open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic despite L.A. County’s health order.
The county settled for $400,000, which will come from the county Health Department’s budget and will go to pay the church’s legal fees. The state will reportedly pay an additional $400,000 under the agreement.
“It appears that the county wants to settle this because they do not want a trial,” the church’s pastor, John MacArthur, said from the pulpit in a video posted on Aug. 30.
MacArthur said the $400,000 will go to the Thomas Moore Society.
“Nothing comes to us except [the knowledge that] the Lord preserved and protected us through this,” he said. “We believe that God has designed us to live in a world of viruses and the best way to do that is to live together so that we build up out immune systems. People who are isolated…don’t have the normal defenses.”
Of the reports of church members becoming ill with the virus, MacArthur said, “there is no evidence that can be traced back to Grace Church,” though he went on to acknowledge that “it probably went through the church in December or January.” MacArthur and his wife had their own bouts with the virus in December.
Background
Last year, Grace Community Church received multiple citations from Los Angeles County for continuing to hold indoor worship services after churches in 30 counties across California were ordered to stop holding worship services in July 2020. The county eventually sued the church in Aug. 2020 for continuing to hold indoor worship services.
The church, led by MacArthur, counter-sued Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti last August,...
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I’ve been to this church previously years back. And it’s not “really” $400,000 but $800,000 due to the additional agreement.
The county doesn’t want to lose a lawsuit that sets a precedent.
Excellent! Thanks for the good news.
Ping!
It may not set a legal precedent, but I’ll bet it does cause
Los Angeles and other cities to think before trying something
like this again.
John MacArthur is a giant Godly man among Pastors, his study bible was given to me by my own Pastor 25 years ago, true insight and study of God’s Word.
$400,000 is chicken feed. LA LA county owes about $40,000,000 plus an apology, with Garcetti bowing before the altar of Grace Community in sackcloth and ashes.
you can’t go wrong standing on the Word. our true King commands us to assemble. thx Grace and Pastor MacArthur.
I watch his sermons one to two times a day. I also just bought his study bible and can’t wait to dig in.
While that is the caee, the fact that they won is in and of itself pretty amazing these days what with the way the courts are stacked against anything right of Stalin.
McArthur's insight into Scripture really makes bible study much more satisfying when one is not sure of the exact message of a verse.
Great choice!
Praise be to God who is steadfast and faithful.
One word that can incite rage in a liberal is God fun to see the turn red faced.
Thanks! I love his teaching and love the study bible so far.
Great news!
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