John Vernon McGee, Th.D., LL.D, (June 17, 1904 – December 1, 1988) was an American ordained Presbyterian minister, pastor, a Bible teacher, a theologian, and a radio minister.^[2]

• 1Biography

Biography[edit]

Childhood, education, and early ministry[edit]

McGee was born in Hillsboro, Texas,^[3] the son of Mrs. Carrie Lingner McGee.^[4] His father was also named John and was an engineer at a cotton mill,^[3] but he died in 1918 when Vernon was 14 years old, as Vernon sometimes mentioned in his sermons.^[5] Before entering the ministry, Vernon was an official at a bank.^[6]

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After attending Southwest University,^[3] he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Columbia Theological Seminary^[7] and Master of Theology and Doctor of Theology degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary.^[3] His ordination into the ministry occurred on June 18, 1933, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee.^[4]

McGee's first church was located on a red clay hill in Midway, Georgia. He served Presbyterian churches in Decatur, Georgia; Nashville, Tennessee; and Cleburne, Texas, before he moved with his wife to Pasadena, California, where he accepted the pastorate at the Lincoln Avenue Presbyterian Church.

McGee became the pastor of the Church of the Open Door in downtown Los Angeles in 1949. That same year, he gave one of the daily invocations at Billy Graham's two-month long Christ for Greater Los Angeles Campaign.^[8] In 1955, McGee had a well-publicized break with the Presbyterian Church, in which he claimed the church's 'liberal leadership [had] taken over the machinery of the presbytery with a boldness and ruthlessness that is appalling.'^[9] This Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy within the Presbyterian church had been growing since the 1920s. After retiring from the pastorate at the Church of the Open Door in 1970, he devoted his remaining years to the Thru the Bible Radio Network. McGee also served as chairman of the Bible department at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles^[10] and as a visiting lecturer at Dallas Theological Seminary.

Thru the Bible[edit]

In 1967, he began broadcasting the Thru the Bible Radio Network program. In a systematic study of each book of the Bible, McGee took his listeners from Genesis to Revelation in a two-and-a-half-year 'Bible bus trip,' as he called it. He had earlier preached a 'Through the Bible in a Year' series of sermons, each devoted to one chapter of the Bible, at the Church of the Open Door.^[11] After retiring from the pastorate in January, 1970, and realizing that two and a half years was not enough time to teach the whole Bible, McGee completed another study of the entire Bible in a five-year period. At the time of McGee's death, the Thru the Bible program aired in 34 languages but has since been translated into over 100 languages. It is broadcast on Trans World Radio throughout the world every weekday.

As a Christian fundamentalist, McGee advocated creationism in his Thru the Bible broadcasts, with a literal interpretation of the Bible in which, for example, he considered the seven days of creation mentioned in the Book of Genesis to be referring to actual twenty-four hour long periods of time.^[12][13] Recurring themes in the TTB broadcasts were the Protestant doctrines on Sola fide (salvation is through faith alone) and [absolute] assurance of salvation, or eternal security, which proclaims that once a follower sincerely accepts Christ as their personal savior, there is nothing they can do, no sin they can commit, that will forfeit their salvation,^[14] a belief held by the majority of Evangelicals and Fundamentalists. McGee also frequently referenced select Bible passages in many of his sermons, such as Galatians 6:7 (Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap) and he often spoke of the days of societal Apostasy in Christianity and secularism that he believed he was witnessing during his lifetime.^[15] Conservative religious (Christian right) culture had begun to fall out of favor in America after World War 2 and did not regain wide-scale popularity in the country until movements such as the Moral Majority in the 1980s. The continued success of the long-running program has been attributed to McGee's excellent oratory abilities, folksy manner, and distinctive accent, as well as his insistence on maintaining the original mission, which was to spread the Scriptures with consistency of the message.^[16]

Beliefs, teachings, and writings[edit]

Having received his advanced degrees from the Dispensationalist Dallas Theological Seminary, McGee was a Christian fundamentalist. Many Bible colleges were modeled after the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Dwight L. Moody, who McGee often spoke of in his sermons, was influential in preaching the imminence of the Kingdom of God, which is important to dispensationalism. In his preaching, McGee readily voiced his personal convictions regarding many controversial subjects. He held the belief that premillennialism (a.k.a. pre-tribulation) is the proper interpretation of Revelation 20:1–3, 7–8, regarding the end times prior to the final judgment. McGee expressed his disbelief in any validity to the view of Amillennialism, which was the dominant view of the Protestant Reformers and is still held by the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches.^[17][18] McGee opposed the viewpoints of Fatalism and Predestination in Calvinism.^[19][20] McGee, like the majority of Protestants, vehemently rejected the Roman Catholic Church's doctrine that Saint Peter went to and founded the Church in Rome but, rather, McGee asserted in many sermons this had been done by Paul (Saul).^[21] Because Protestants reject the claim by the Roman Catholic Church that it is the original Christian faith, founded by Jesus Christ, and its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles (the pope being the successor to Saint Peter), McGee often argued for the distinction to be made between the Catholic Church and the Early Church, particularly in regards to the latter's role in developing the New testament of the Bible^[22].

Death[edit]

McGee continued many speaking engagements after he retired, including throughout a bout of cancer from which he fully recovered. However, a heart problem surgically corrected in 1965 resurfaced, and he died in his chair in 1988.^[23] Since his death, the five-year program of Thru the Bible has continued to air on over 800 radio stations in North America, is heard in more than 100 languages, and is broadcast worldwide via radio, shortwave, and the Internet.

An obituary distributed by the Associated Press reported that McGee died of heart failure at a nursing home in Templeton, California, at age 84.^[24] His wife, Ruth, died in 1997 after having suffered from dementia for nearly a decade.^[25]

Recognition[edit]

McGee was posthumously inducted into the National Religious Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1989.^[26]

Education and areas of service[edit]

Additional areas of service:

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• Head of the English Bible Department at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (a.k.a. Biola University)
• Visiting lecturer at Dallas Theological Seminary
• In 1962 he co-founded and taught at the Los Angeles Bible Training School (a.k.a. LABTS)^[29]

References[edit]

Notes

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1. ^'Dr. J. Vernon McGee'.
2. ^'Job 26:7—28:28 - Thru the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee'.
3. ^ ^abcd'Rev. J. Vernon McGee, 84; Pioneer Radio Evangelist'. The Los Angeles Times. California, Los Angeles. December 4, 1988. p. 43. Retrieved June 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
4. ^ ^ab'Ordination Services'. The Tennessean. Tennessee, Nashville. June 18, 1933. p. 8. Retrieved June 22, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
5. ^'J. Vernon McGee: Preacher to the Common Man by Chris White'.
6. ^'McGee Will Speak at Brotherhood'. The Daily News-Journal. Tennessee, Murfreesboro. March 31, 1936. p. 4. Retrieved June 22, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
7. ^'J. Sprole Lyons Heads Decatur School Body'. The Atlanta Constitution. Georgia, Atlanta. May 11, 1933. p. 15. Retrieved June 22, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
8. ^'Christ for Greater Los Angeles Campaign'.
9. ^'Rev. J. Vernon McGee, 84; Pioneer Radio Evangelist'.
10. ^'Family Night to Be Rally Feature'. The San Bernardino County Sun. California, San Bernardino. September 4, 1948. p. 11. Retrieved June 22, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
11. ^'Bible Series Services to Run for Year'. The Los Angeles Times. California, Los Angeles. September 16, 1950. p. 15. Retrieved June 22, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
12. ^McIver, Thomas Allen. (1989). Creationism: Intellectual Origins, Cultural Context, and Theoretical Diversity. University of California, Los Angeles.
13. ^'J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation'.
14. ^'Is it Possible for a Saved Person Ever to be Lost?'(PDF).
15. ^'The Amazing, Alarming, and Awful Apostasy'.
16. ^'Dallas Morning News (2007)'.
17. ^'Thru the Bible Q&A with McGee'.
18. ^'Through the Bible:Genesis through Revleation'.
19. ^'McGee denounces Calvinism'.
20. ^'TTB_Briefing the Bible'(PDF).
21. ^'Thru the Bible' with Dr. J. Vernon McGee:Romans'.
22. ^'What is Doctrine'.
23. ^'Dr. J. Vernon McGee'. Thru the Bible.
24. ^'California evangelist J. Vernon McGee dies'. Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Hawaii, Honolulu. Associated Press. December 5, 1988. p. 26. Retrieved June 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
25. ^'A Marathon of Loss'.
26. ^'NRB Hall of Fame'. NRB. National Religious Broadcasters. Archived from the original on 6 November 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
27. ^'Midway Presbyterian'. The Atlanta Constitution. Georgia, Atlanta. March 5, 1932. p. 20. Retrieved June 22, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
28. ^'News of the Churches'. The Atlanta Constitution. Georgia, Atlanta. May 6, 1933. p. 11. Retrieved June 22, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
29. ^'Los Angeles Bible Training School about page'.

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BibliographyDelgado, Berta (2004). 'A voice from the heavens'. The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 2008-08-07.

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