Most Bible teachers come out of a Bible college. Chuck Missler came out of guided missiles and computer networks.
That is why he teaches the way he does.
The Naval Academy and the missiles
Charles W. Missler was born on 28 May 1934. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1956, took a Master’s in Engineering at UCLA, and was commissioned into the US Air Force.
When his military obligation was up he became Branch Chief of the Department of Guided Missiles at Lowry Air Force Base.
Ford, and the first network of its kind
He joined the Ford Motor Company in 1963. In 1966 he built the first international industrial computer network in the world.
Think about the year. 1966. Most people had never seen a computer, and this man was joining them up across countries.
In 1977 he became chairman and chief executive of Western Digital, and its largest shareholder.
Founding Koinonia House
He had started Koinonia House in 1973, while all of that was still going on. Teaching the Bible was not his retirement hobby — he was doing both.
Eventually the teaching took over. He spent the rest of his life at it, and died on 1 May 2018.
Learn the Bible in 24 Hours
Published in 2002, and the reason most people know his name.
It is exactly what the title says. Twenty-four hour-long sessions that take you through the whole Bible — every book, how they fit together, what runs through the lot of it from Genesis to Revelation.
You watch one an hour at a time. Nobody sits through twenty-four hours in one go. One a week and you have done the entire Bible in under six months.
Then you go back and study properly, because now you know where everything sits.
Why we point people to him
Because he treats you as though you have a brain. There is no talking down, no watering it down, no assuming you cannot follow.
And because of how he handles the Bible itself. He came from engineering, where a thing either works or it does not, and he approached Scripture the same way — as one document, written across sixteen hundred years by forty men, that hangs together as a single design.
That is the argument he keeps making. Not a library of religious books. One book, with one Author, and a structure to it.
If you have ever felt the Bible was too big to get hold of, he is where to start.
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” — 2 Timothy 3:16
Sources: Koinonia House; chuckmissler.com; Wikipedia; Missions Box.
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