John MacArthur, influential evangelical preacher, dies at 86

The Rev. John MacArthur, an influential and exacting evangelical preacher, died Monday at the age of 86.

He led Grace Community Church in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Sun Valley for more than five decades. The church announced his death on its website, praising his "56 years of faithful ministry." 

On Sunday, Tom Patton, one of the church's pastors, told the congregation MacArthur had been hospitalized with pneumonia.