24 Facts About David Pawson

John David Pawson was an English evangelical minister, writer and prominent Bible teacher.

From his childhood in the north of England David Pawson had wanted to be a farmer, but by the time he had completed his studies for a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture at Durham University, he felt God was calling him into full-time Christian ministry.

David Pawson then studied for a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in theology at Wesley House, a Methodist theological college in Cambridge.

David Pawson served in Aden, and relinquished his commission on 1 September 1959.

David Pawson left Millmead in 1979 and engaged in an itinerant worldwide Bible teaching ministry predominantly through seminars for church leaders in Asia, Australia, Africa, England, Europe, and the United States.

David Pawson was a writer and speaker with a reputation of urgency, clarity, and faithfulness to the Scriptures.

David Pawson proposed four principal steps: repentance towards God; believing in Jesus; baptism in water; and receiving the Holy Spirit.

This, according to David Pawson, is the biblical pattern for a "normal Christian birth".

David Pawson argues that modern men too often neglect their social obligations and should return to the Biblical model of manhood.

David Pawson teaches that people who go to hell experience eternal suffering.

The groundwork for this study was laid in the 1960s and 70s, when David Pawson took his congregation through nearly half of the Old Testament and all of the New Testament line by line.

David Pawson rejects postmillennialism in favour of a premillennial understanding of the Second Coming, so that Jesus will return bodily in power immediately before his reign over the world for a millennium from Jerusalem.

David Pawson asserts that the supernatural taking up of believers alive at this time, so as to join the returning Christ, fulfils the Rapture prophecies; he argues against a pre-tribulation timing of the rapture.

David Pawson further argues that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land is a fulfilment of scriptural prophecy, and that prophecies spoken about Israel relate specifically to Israel, so that the outstanding prophecies about Israel will be fulfilled before the end of the age.

In Jesus Baptises in One Holy Spirit, David Pawson discusses the evidence for the Baptism in the Holy Spirit as a separate event from believing, repentance and water baptism.

David Pawson explains what Islam is, arguing that its rejection of Jesus Christ's divinity mean the two faiths cannot be reconciled, and he proposes a Christian response, based on the church purifying itself.

In comparing the situation to that portrayed by the Hebrew prophet Habakkuk, David Pawson implies that the rise of Islam could be impending judgement for the immorality into which Western churches and secular humanist society has sunk.

In Word and Spirit Together: Uniting Charismatics and Evangelicals, David Pawson calls for an end to the division between charismatic and Evangelical Christians over the issue of Spiritual Baptism and charismatic gifts.

David Pawson argues that the charismatic gifts are for the church today but that their practice should be built on a solid scriptural basis.

David Pawson therefore argues that the two groups should learn from each other, to the benefit of both.

In Defending Christian Zionism, David Pawson puts the case that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land is a fulfilment of scriptural prophecy, and that Christians should support the existence of the Jewish State on theological grounds.

David Pawson argues that prophecies spoken about Israel relate specifically to Israel.

David Pawson wrote a number of Commentaries where he went through an entire book of the Bible in detail.

David Pawson was the author of more than 90 books, produced more than 300 teaching videos and more than 1600 audio recordings.