David Pawson

David Pawson

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John David Pawson (1930–2020). Born on February 25, 1930, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, to a farming family, David Pawson was a British Bible teacher, author, and itinerant preacher known for his expository teaching. Raised Methodist—his father was a lay preacher and his mother led a women’s Bible class—he earned a BA in Agriculture from Durham University and served as a Royal Air Force chaplain in Aden and the Persian Gulf from 1956 to 1959. After studying theology at Cambridge University’s Wesley House, he was ordained in the Methodist Church, pastoring Gold Hill Chapel in Buckinghamshire (1961–1967) and Millmead Baptist Church in Guildford (1967–1979), where his sermons grew attendance significantly. Joining the Baptist Union, he later embraced charismatic renewal, leaving settled pastorates in 1979 for global itinerant ministry, teaching in 120 countries. Pawson authored over 80 books, including Unlocking the Bible (2003), The Normal Christian Birth (1989), When Jesus Returns (1995), and Leadership Is Male (1988), and hosted teaching series on Revelation TV and TBN. His “Cover to Cover” project provided verse-by-verse Bible commentary, preserved at davidpawson.org. Married to Enid since 1951, he had two sons, Jonathan and Jeremy, and a daughter, Joanna, and died on May 21, 2020, in Hampshire, from cancer and Parkinson’s. Pawson said, “The Bible is God’s autobiography, and we must take it as it stands.”
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