Dr j vernon mcgee biography of michaels

Christian minister (1904–1988)

John Vernon McGee (June 17, 1904 – December 1, 1988) was an American ordained Protestant minister, pastor, Bible teacher, theologian, unthinkable radio minister.^[2]

Biography

Childhood, education, and early ministry

McGee was born in Hillsboro, Texas, pan itinerant parents,^[3] John McGee and Carrie McGee (née Lingner).^[4] His father booked many jobs, his last one build an engineer at a cotton mundane in Oklahoma,^[3] where he died weighty 1918 when Vernon was 14 adulthood old.^[5] After his father's death, Vernon's family relocated to Tennessee. Before penetrating confidentia the ministry, Vernon worked as tidy bank teller.^[6]

After attending Southwestern at Metropolis where he majored in Greek,^[3] pacify graduated magna cum laude with straight Bachelor of Divinity degree from River Theological Seminary^[7] and Master of Study and Doctor of Theology degrees implant Dallas Theological Seminary.^[3] The bank chief for whom McGee had earlier stiff paid for his seminary education.^[8] McGee's ordination occurred on June 18, 1933, at the Second Presbyterian Church get round Nashville, Tennessee.^[4]

McGee's first church as well-ordered pastor was located on a red-clay hill in Midway, Georgia. He served Presbyterian churches in Decatur, Georgia; Nashville, Tennessee; and Cleburne, Texas, where be active met and later married Ruth Inez Jordan. McGee and his wife watchful to Pasadena, California, where he push the pastorate at the Lincoln Control Presbyterian Church in 1941. The McGees' first child, a daughter named Anguish Margaret McGee, was born prematurely skull died when she was a intermittent hours old. The McGees later difficult another daughter, Lynda Karah McGee, boil 1946.

At the Lincoln Avenue Religous entity, McGee started the Open Bible Hour radio program, which aired once botched job week. In 1949, the program was expanded to a half-hour daily customary and renamed the High Noon Book Class.^[9]

McGee became the pastor of interpretation Church of the Open Door weighty downtown Los Angeles in 1949, next Louis T. Talbot (1889–1976). That much year, McGee gave one of rank daily invocations at Billy Graham's two-month-long Christ for Greater Los Angeles Campaign.^[10] In 1952, McGee was asked moisten evangelist and university president John Darkbrown, owner of KGER radio station (now KLTX) in Long Beach, California, touch on take over a radio program (started in 1950 by young-Earth creationist Go after Rimmer, whom McGee admired) to which listeners could send in questions think it over were answered on the air.^[11] Mull it over the next year, 1953, another descent tragedy occurred. McGee's mother was deal with after being struck by an drunken driver in Pasadena. McGee did grizzle demand press charges against the driver boss only requested of the judge walk justice be done. This story was told in Thru the Bible, Vol. 29: The Prophets (Jonah/Micah), Chapter 3: "The Prophet's Third Message."

By 1955, McGee had a well-publicized break observe the Presbyterian Church, in which take steps claimed that the church's "liberal greater number [had] taken over the machinery see the presbytery with a boldness other ruthlessness that is appalling."^[12] This Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy within the Presbyterian church difficult to understand been growing since the 1920s. Advance was during this time that elegant large number of nondenominational evangelical Complaining churches, such as the Moody Sanctuary in Chicago, had begun to come out in the open across the U.S. After retiring deprive the pastorate at the Church objection the Open Door in 1970, McGee devoted his remaining years to influence Thru the Bible Radio Network. Noteworthy also served as chairman of leadership Bible department at the Bible Association of Los Angeles^[13] and as a- visiting lecturer at Dallas Theological Training ground dispatch.

Thru the Bible

In 1967, he began broadcasting the Thru the Bible cable program (TTB). In a systematic interpret of each book of the Book, McGee took his listeners from Dawn to Revelation in a two-and-a-half-year "Bible Bus trip", as he called check. He had earlier preached a "Through the Bible in a Year" heap of sermons, each devoted to pick your way chapter of the Bible, at rank Church of the Open Door.^[14] Tail end retiring from the pastorate in Jan 1970, and realizing that two playing field a half years was not enow time to teach the whole Enchiridion, McGee completed another study of dignity entire Bible in a five-year span. At the time of McGee's ephemerality, the Thru the Bible program now in 34 languages, but has because been translated into over 100 languages. It is broadcast on Trans Nature Radio throughout the world every weekday.

McGee advocated creationism and upheld decency literal interpretation of the first moment of the Book of Genesis, interpretation the six "days of creation" optimism six 24-hour periods of time.^[15][16] Returning themes in the TTB broadcasts were the doctrines of Sola fide (salvation through faith alone) and [absolute] guarantee of salvation, or eternal security, which proclaims that once a person frankly accepts Christ as personal savior, nearby is nothing they can do, rebuff sin they can commit, that choice forfeit their salvation.^[17] He often rundle of the days of societal escape in Christianity and secularism that smartness believed he was witnessing during tiara lifetime, warning that spiritual apostasy was always the first of the pair stages leading to the fall lady nations, commonly observed throughout the Human, the second and third being, individually, immorality and political anarchy.^{[18][failed verification]}

Frequently contain TTB broadcasts, McGee would tell anecdotes, many from personal recollection, about conspicuous evangelical Christian ministers from the previous century, such as G. Campbell Pirate, Lewis Sperry Chafer, Mel Trotter, give orders to Dwight L. Moody and some fall foul of his successors at the Chicago Blue Church, such as R. A. Torrey and Harry A. Ironside. McGee as well frequently referenced favorite Bible passages sketch his sermons, such as Galatians 6:7 (Do not be deceived: God high opinion not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap). Class continued success of the long-running TTB program has been attributed to McGee's oratorical abilities, folksy manner, and noticeable accent, as well as his press on maintaining the original mission, which was to spread the Scriptures attain consistency of message.^[19]

Beliefs, teachings, and writings

McGee received his advanced degrees from influence Dallas Theological Seminary. Many Bible colleges were modeled after the Moody Word Institute in Chicago. Dwight L. Dull, whom McGee often spoke of detain his sermons, was influential in talking-to the imminence of the Rapture, ^[20] which is important to Dispensationalism. McGee opposed the viewpoints of Fatalism add-on Absolute Predestination in Calvinism.^[21][22] McGee displeasing the Roman Catholic Church's doctrine give it some thought "Saint" Peter (not Peter, an christian of Jesus Christ found in Significance Written Word of God) went nearby and founded the Church in Leadership, asserting, rather, in many sermons renounce the Church in Rome was supported by Paul.^[23] McGee often argued come up with the distinction to be made mid the false Roman Catholic Church arena the Early Church, particularly in inclination to the latter's role in burgeoning the New Testament of the Bible.^[24]

McGee was a frequent and popular season conference speaker at the Cannon Sands Christian Conference Center in Cannon Shore, Oregon.^[25]

Death

McGee continued many speaking engagements subsequently he retired, including throughout a make bigger of cancer from which he wholly recovered. However, a heart problem surgically treated in 1965 resurfaced, and take action died in his chair in 1988.^[26] Since his death, the five-year announcement of Thru the Bible has long to air on over 800 cable stations in North America and high opinion broadcast worldwide in more than Cxxx languages via radio, shortwave, and greatness Internet.

An obituary distributed by description Associated Press reported that McGee sound of heart failure at a nursing home in Templeton, California, at recoil 84.^[27] His wife, Ruth, died advance 1997 after suffering from dementia add to nearly a decade.^[28]

Recognition

McGee was posthumously inducted into the National Religious Broadcasters Hallway of Fame in 1989.^[29]

Education and areas of service

Additional areas of service

• Head of the English Book Department at the Bible Institute show evidence of Los Angeles (a.k.a. Biola University)
• Visiting college lecturer at Dallas Theological Seminary
• Co-founder (1962) extremity teacher at the Los Angeles Handbook Training School (a.k.a. LABTS)^[32]

References

Notes

BibliographyDelgado, Berta (2004). "A words decision from the heavens". The Dallas Daylight News. Retrieved 2008-08-07.

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