John Weir Murray (October 6, 1913 – March 20, 1996) also known as Jack Murray, was an American pastor, evangelist, and educator.

Personal life

Murray was born in

Laurium, Michigan Laurium (; or ) is a village in Calumet Township, Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan, in the center of the Keweenaw Peninsula. The population was 1,977 at the 2010 census. The village is mostly surrounded by Calumet Township, with ...

, and grew up in

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. He studied at the

Bible Institute of Los Angeles Biola University () is a private, nondenominational, evangelical Christian university in La Mirada, California. It was founded in 1908 as the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. It has over 150 programs of study in nine schools offering bachelor's ...

, Wheaton College in Illinois, and

Faith Theological Seminary Faith Theological Seminary is an unaccredited evangelical Christian seminary in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1937 in Wilmington, Delaware, moved to Philadelphia in 1952, and then moved to Maryland in 2004. History In response to the Pr ...

. Murray served as a pastor until 1955, when he became president of Shelton College. He led the establishment of the Harvey Cedars Bible Conference in 1941, with the purchase of the historic Harvey Cedars Hotel. In 1960, he left Shelton to start a radio evangelism ministry, Bible Evangelism Inc. Murray co-founded

Clearwater Christian College Clearwater Christian College (CCC) was a non-denominational Christian college in Clearwater, Florida on Tampa Bay from 1966 until 2015. Student life Clearwater Christian College students were composed of roughly 80% residence hall students an ...

during the early 1960s. In 1971, along with Allan MacRae, Murray founded Biblical Theological Seminary.

References

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