Phil Johnson to Retire as Grace to You’s Executive Director
Phil Johnson, executive director of Grace to You (GTY), the ministry founded by the late pastor John MacArthur, has announced his retirement from ministry after more than four decades due to an incurable cancer.
Johnson, who also serves as an elder and pastor at Grace Community Church, posted on Facebook Wednesday that he will retire officially on July 1, The Christian Post reported.
“I've had a wonderful career at Grace to You for the past 43 years," Johnson wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday. "I turned 73 on June 11. I have Multiple Myeloma, which is not curable, and has diminished my energy level. I am busy enough with preaching engagements that sometimes involve travel."
“And at this pivotal time in the ministry's history, GTY needs to be in the hands of leadership that will steer the ministry into the next generations of technology and strategy," he wrote. "So I'm retiring."
“I'm profoundly grateful for the amazing privilege I had to work alongside John MacArthur for more than 4 decades. I love Grace to You with all my heart, and nothing will ever change that."
Johnson, however, did not announce a successor in his post.
Grace Community Church, located in Sun Valley, California, was led by pastor John MacArthur from 1969 until his death in July 2025.
In addition to Grace To You, Johnson has also edited a majority of MacArthur’s books and has founded multiple websites, including The Spurgeon Archive, The Hall of Church History, and the Pyromaniacs.
Johnson first announced his Multiple Myeloma diagnosis in 2024 after he was previously hospitalized that spring.
“My ‘catastrophic’ kidney malfunction turned out to be a sort of blessing in disguise,” he asserted at the time.
“In the hundreds of blood tests and a bone-marrow biopsy doctors ordered, they discovered I had Multiple Myeloma, a kind of blood cancer that lets the proteins in my blood attack other organs,” he explained on X.
Although Johnson said “Multiple Myeloma is not curable,” he believed that the treatment he was prescribed should make it go into remission.
Johnson was thankful that “in the providence of God, they were able to diagnose this before the cancer progressed so far that no treatment could help. My times are in His hand.”
Photo Credit: ©Facebook/Phil Johnson
Originally published June 26, 2026.
