James 2: 14What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? 15If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? 17Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.
MacArthur does not tech salvation by works, he teaches that life lived by faith is evidenced by good works.
You prove my point.
hat James passage is NOT about works.
Those that teach that it is have twisted Scripture to mean what they want.
The church fathers, in unison, teach this point quite well.