Grace to You

One of our principal tasks is to protect believers from being “tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming” (Ephesians 4:14). We accept the God-given responsibility of “speaking the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:15) and strive for the growth of the church and glory of the Lord, rather than the praise and honor of men.

Our role is not to supplant the local church’s ministry but to support it by providing additional resources for those hungering for the truth of God’s Word. Media ministries can never replace involvement in a biblical church, studying the Bible in a small group, or interacting with a teacher. That said, we still sense the need for more in-depth resources, evidenced by the many Christians and Christian leaders worldwide who depend on our ministry to supplement their own studies.

Our desire is that God be glorified through Grace to You’s resources. The Lord Jesus Christ is the head of this ministry, and we want to perform our work as unto Him, to reflect Him to all those we encounter, and to operate not in our own strength but through His power (Philippians 4:13).

Grace to You has never been about novelty and new trails. We see ourselves in the flow of the faithful preachers and teachers who have gone before. We’re simply doing all we can, with the resources we have, to honor God’s truth—to preserve, and hopefully increase for generations to come, the legacy entrusted to us.

So what does the future of Grace to You look like? Decades from now, if the Lord hasn’t returned, we’ll still be doing exactly what we’ve been doing from the start. We will be teaching the Word of God. There is no successor or succession plan. We have thousands of hours of John MacArthur’s verse-by-verse teaching that we’ll continue to distribute through mass media―whether print, audio, radio, television, the Internet, or other yet-to-be-developed avenues that come along.

And because God’s Word is timeless, we have no concerns about our ministry becoming irrelevant or dated. While the methods and technologies we use will no doubt change over time, our content and emphasis never will.