Transcript
A (0:00)
Thank you for listening to this Podcast 1 production, now available on Apple Podcasts, Podcast 1, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
B (0:11)
I want you to know we are
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lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
B (0:15)
Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point usa.
A (0:28)
We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed destroyed countries, destroyed lives. And we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Hey, everybody. Welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show. I am so honored to be joined by Pastor John MacArthur. Pastor MacArthur has been a hero of mine for a couple years. I actually heard him originally on Moody Radio in Chicago. They were rebroadcasting one of his incredible sermons. And he has made news recently where he has reopened his church in defiance to Governor Newsom's orders. And he is someone that I look to for such inspiration, for theological and spiritual clarity. So, Pastor MacArthur, thank you so much for joining the Charlie Kirk Show.
B (1:20)
No, thank you so much for those kind words, Charlie. I'm grateful to be with you.
A (1:26)
Well, thank you. So can you give us a little bit of an update and a backdrop of what your church has been going through and some of the decisions that you have made recently to reopen your church?
B (1:39)
Well, I'm going to give you an exclusive that just happened today. We had a court hearing, and we had basically posted an injunction against the county of Los Angeles and the Health Department to prevent them from shutting down our church altogether this coming Sunday. They filed against us to go ahead and ask the court to shut us down. And the judge ruled today in our favor. So it was an incredible win for the church. And the judge said, outside, no restrictions at all with children. No restrictions at all. They can go back to Sunday school and classes. The only thing we ask is that when you go into the worship center, you observe social distancing in masks. And you know, that's okay because that doesn't invade the freedom that we have to worship in our church. If we have to look silly for three weeks, he said for the next three weeks and conform to that. That's good. He ruled in our behalf and basically against the county trying to shut us down. And I understand that he wanted to make sure that he protected our First Amendment rights, but he didn't want to play doctor, because the conventional wisdom is, hey, maybe social distancing and masks help. So do that for a few weeks, and on September 4th, we'll have a full and final hearing. But we were very, very grateful for that. So we can get out of the parking lot and go back into church. And if you want to stay out, we have outside seating as well. You can stay outside without a mask or any social distancing.
