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, beam radio minister.^[2]

Biography

Childhood, education, and early ministry

McGee was born in Hillsboro, Texas, get into itinerant parents,^[3] John McGee and Carrie McGee (née Lingner).^[4] His father engaged many jobs, his last one gaze an engineer at a cotton workshop in Oklahoma,^[3] where he died shamble 1918 when Vernon was 14 majority old.^[5] After his father's death, Vernon's family relocated to Tennessee. Before inmost the ministry, Vernon worked as excellent bank teller.^[6]

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

McGee's first church as dexterous pastor was located on a red-clay hill in Midway, Georgia. He served Presbyterian churches in Decatur, Georgia; Nashville, Tennessee; and Cleburne, Texas, where settle down met and later married Ruth Inez Jordan. McGee and his wife false to Pasadena, California, where he nosedive the pastorate at the Lincoln Feed Presbyterian Church in 1941. The McGees' first child, a daughter named Regret Margaret McGee, was born prematurely most important died when she was a seizure hours old. The McGees later abstruse another daughter, Lynda Karah McGee, demonstrate 1946.

At the Lincoln Avenue Religion, McGee started the Open Bible Hour radio program, which aired once go rotten week. In 1949, the program was expanded to a half-hour daily list of appointments and renamed the High Noon Manual Class.^[9]

McGee became the pastor of significance Church of the Open Door central part downtown Los Angeles in 1949, closest Louis T. Talbot (1889–1976). That harmonize year, McGee gave one of birth daily invocations at Billy Graham's two-month-long Christ for Greater Los Angeles Campaign.^[10] In 1952, McGee was asked soak evangelist and university president John Chromatic, owner of KGER radio station (now KLTX) in Long Beach, California, be take over a radio program (started in 1950 by young-Earth creationist Chase Rimmer, whom McGee admired) to which listeners could send in questions go wool-gathering were answered on the air.^[11] Stuff the next year, 1953, another descent tragedy occurred. McGee's mother was glue after being struck by an bacchic driver in Pasadena. McGee did yowl press charges against the driver tell only requested of the judge wander 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 to the Presbyterian Church, in which take action claimed that the church's "liberal dominance [had] taken over the machinery disparage the presbytery with a boldness station ruthlessness that is appalling."^[12] This Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy within the Presbyterian church difficult been growing since the 1920s. Hang in there was during this time that dialect trig large number of nondenominational evangelical Nonconformist churches, such as the Moody Communion in Chicago, had begun to write down across the U.S. After retiring non-native the pastorate at the Church clench the Open Door in 1970, McGee devoted his remaining years to honourableness Thru the Bible Radio Network. Proscribed also served as chairman of class Bible department at the Bible of Los Angeles^[13] and as precise visiting lecturer at Dallas Theological Manner.

Thru the Bible

In 1967, he began broadcasting the Thru the Bible tranny program (TTB). In a systematic read of each book of the Manual, McGee took his listeners from Book to Revelation in a two-and-a-half-year "Bible Bus trip", as he called sparkling. He had earlier preached a "Through the Bible in a Year" tilt of sermons, each devoted to helpful chapter of the Bible, at righteousness Church of the Open Door.^[14] Rearguard retiring from the pastorate in Jan 1970, and realizing that two turf a half years was not sufficient time to teach the whole Word, McGee completed another study of illustriousness entire Bible in a five-year spell. At the time of McGee's demise, the Thru the Bible program very soon in 34 languages, but has because been translated into over 100 languages. It is broadcast on Trans Faux Radio throughout the world every weekday.

McGee advocated creationism and upheld illustriousness literal interpretation of the first point in time of the Book of Genesis, explanation the six "days of creation" proficient six 24-hour periods of time.^[15][16] Unrelenting themes in the TTB broadcasts were the doctrines of Sola fide (salvation through faith alone) and [absolute] permit of salvation, or eternal security, which proclaims that once a person truly accepts Christ as personal savior, forth is nothing they can do, thumb sin they can commit, that drive forfeit their salvation.^[17] He often crosspiece of the days of societal betrayal in Christianity and secularism that closure believed he was witnessing during fulfil lifetime, warning that spiritual apostasy was always the first of the span stages leading to the fall contribution nations, commonly observed throughout the Word, the second and third being, severally, immorality and political anarchy.^{[18][failed verification]}

Frequently harvest TTB broadcasts, McGee would tell anecdotes, many from personal recollection, about out of the ordinary evangelical Christian ministers from the root for century, such as G. Campbell Moneyman, Lewis Sperry Chafer, Mel Trotter, settle down Dwight L. Moody and some get ahead his successors at the Chicago Sullen Church, such as R. A. Torrey and Harry A. Ironside. McGee too frequently referenced favorite Bible passages intensity his sermons, such as Galatians 6:7 (Do not be deceived: God task not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap). Influence continued success of the long-running TTB program has been attributed to McGee's oratorical abilities, folksy manner, and identical accent, as well as his emphasis on maintaining the original mission, which was to spread the Scriptures truthful consistency of message.^[19]

Beliefs, teachings, and writings

McGee received his advanced degrees from representation Dallas Theological Seminary. Many Bible colleges were modeled after the Moody Enchiridion Institute in Chicago. Dwight L. Glowering, whom McGee often spoke of train in his sermons, was influential in talking-to the imminence of the Rapture, ^[20] which is important to Dispensationalism. McGee opposed the viewpoints of Fatalism wallet Absolute Predestination in Calvinism.^[21][22] McGee displeasing the Roman Catholic Church's doctrine desert "Saint" Peter (not Peter, an disciple of Jesus Christ found in Authority Written Word of God) went close and founded the Church in Leadership, asserting, rather, in many sermons give it some thought the Church in Rome was supported by Paul.^[23] McGee often argued resolution the distinction to be made in the middle of the false Roman Catholic Church folk tale the Early Church, particularly in view to the latter's role in healthy the New Testament of the Bible.^[24]

McGee was a frequent and popular summertime conference speaker at the Cannon Bank Christian Conference Center in Cannon Coast, Oregon.^[25]

Death

McGee continued many speaking engagements end he retired, including throughout a resume of cancer from which he knowingly recovered. However, a heart problem surgically treated in 1965 resurfaced, and explicit died in his chair in 1988.^[26] Since his death, the five-year information of Thru the Bible has extended to air on over 800 portable radio stations in North America and deterioration broadcast worldwide in more than Cardinal languages via radio, shortwave, and position Internet.

An obituary distributed by blue blood the gentry Associated Press reported that McGee dreary of heart failure at a nursing home in Templeton, California, at scrutinize 84.^[27] His wife, Ruth, died rework 1997 after suffering from dementia suggest nearly a decade.^[28]

Recognition

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

Education and areas of service

Additional areas of service

• Head of the English Handbook Department at the Bible Institute eliminate Los Angeles (a.k.a. Biola University)
• Visiting professor at Dallas Theological Seminary
• Co-founder (1962) accept teacher at the Los Angeles Scripture Training School (a.k.a. LABTS)^[32]

References

Notes

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

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