It was Aug. 30, only 18 days after L.A. County public health officials had demanded that Grace Community Church stop holding indoor services. Yet congregants have indeed been stricken and hospitalized with COVID-19, according to MacArthur’s own account in a church interview in April. AdvertisementCounty health officials launched an outbreak investigation at the church in October after three other people contracted the coronavirus. When a judge sided with health officials in mid-September and ordered the church not to meet indoors, MacArthur mocked the county’s health guidelines. Two weeks later, the church made its stance official, saying Jesus would want the church to reopen: “Christ, not Caesar, Is Head of the Church,” MacArthur and church elders said in a statement on the church’s website.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 09, 2020 04:18 UTC