John Vernon McGee

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John Vernon McGee ( June 17, 1904 , † December 1, 1988 ) was an American evangelical minister.

He had the idea for the project Thru the Bible (German through the Bible ), a Bible study radio program that has been taking listeners worldwide in a verse -to-verse discussion through all 66 books of the Bible since 1967 .

Life

McGee made an early decision to become a clergyman. After studying at Columbia Theological Seminary and Dallas Theological Seminary , he was ordained in the Southern Presbyterian Church . After serving in the Presbyterian Church , he pastored the Church of the Open Door in Los Angeles in 1949 . He held the position until his retirement in 1970.

McGee preached from 1941 in the weekly radio show The Open Bible Hour , which was then broadcast daily from 1949 under the name High Noon Bible Class .

In 1967 McGee began the Thru the Bible Radio Network program, which took the radio listeners through the entire text and thus all the biblical narratives of the 66 books of the Bible with 30-minute broadcasts initially in 2½ years, then in 5 years , what McGee himself called “ Bible bus trip "(German " bus trip through the Bible " ). He wanted to help people all over the world to have a basic understanding of the statements of the Holy Scriptures. The series with the motto “The whole Word for the whole World” (German “The whole word (of God) for the whole world” ) is now broadcast daily from over 800 radio stations in the USA and Canada alone. and is broadcast worldwide in over 100 languages ​​by hundreds of radio stations and is also broadcast over the Internet. Since McGee's death in 1988, the program has been carried on by the Thru the Bible Radio Network, which he founded and based in Pasadena, California , which is financed solely by voluntary donations from the audience.

McGee was a popular speaker in American Christian fundamentalist circles .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thru the Bible: Dr. J. Vernon McGee , accessed August 31, 2011.
  2. ^ Thru the Bible: About TTB , accessed August 31, 2011.
  3. ↑ Randall Herbert Balmer: McGee, J (o) hn Vernon (1904–1988) . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 434 (English).
personal data
SURNAME McGee, John Vernon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American evangelical minister
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1904
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1988