19 Facts About Dave Breese

David William Breese was an evangelical Christian pastor and theologian from the mid-20th century to the early 21st century.

Dave Breese was born in Chicago to David and Ruth Dave Breese.

Dave Breese was the youngest of four children, having three older sisters including, Betty, and twin sisters, Mary and Margaret.

Dave Breese had a foster brother, Bob Gaudio, whom Breese's parents took in as a child.

Dave Breese attended Lane Technical High School, an all-boys school with 8,000 students.

When he was in high school, all of Dave Breese's sisters were involved in a, "Hi-C Club," a Christian youth organization.

One week, when Dave Breese was 16 years old, the Hi-C meeting was held at his house.

Dave Breese completed his undergraduate studies at Judson University, in Elgin, Illinois, and then went on to Northern Baptist Seminary, in Lombard, Illinois.

Dave Breese was a member of Youth for Christ throughout the 1950s, and later became the Executive Director of the movement's Chicagoland chapter, giving a speech entitled "Global Struggle for Minds of Men" to a Chicago crowd in December 1963.

Dave Breese founded his own ministry named "Christian Destiny Ministries" in 1963, and later expanded his ministry to radio broadcasts with Dave Breese Reports beginning in 1978.

Dave Breese later added another program to his roster in 1987, entitled The King Is Coming, which he used to promote his own premillennialist beliefs.

Dave Breese's family has told stories of the labour he poured into his radio work, with Dave Breese sitting up late at night, making radio programs on a simple recorder with a blanket over his head.

Dave Breese was eventually succeeded as president of Christian Destiny Ministries, and later on he became a strong critic of progressive dispensationalism, which he believed had taken over many mainstream evangelical churches, but was not biblically sound.

Dave Breese was critical of what was known to him as the full-orbed gospel, more commonly known as the social gospel, which seeks to apply Christian ethics and evangelism to social justice issues such as poverty and substance abuse.

Dave Breese argued that the social gospel inverts the real relationship between the two, and that one must first be born-again before the lasting transformative power of the gospel can help bring about solutions to these issues.

Around the time of the Moral Majority's onset in the 1980's, Dave Breese told an audience at the National Association of Evangelicals that:.

Dave Breese married Carol Flaming, whom he met at a meeting in Winona Lake, Indiana.

Just after the year 2000 rang in, Dave Breese suffered a stroke.

Dave Breese had rarely turned down an invitation to preach.