DAN BILLINGSLY has served for the past fifty-five years as evangelist with Churches of Christ. He was born on March 25, 1929 in Dallas, Texas. He began his full-time evangelistic work in 1953 with the church in Blue Ridge, Texas, and has served as local evangelist with Churches of Christ in Carrollton, Dallas, Odessa, Garland, Mesquite and Denton, TX and foreign mission work in Stockholm, Sweden.
He has studied at Abilene Christian University and the University of Sweden in Stockholm, Sweden. He was among the first modern evangelists of Churches of Christ to enter Scandinavia. He spent five years (1957-1962) helping to establish the Lord's church in Stockholm, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. He has preached in more than 300 gospel meetings and seminars in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alaska, Hawaii, New York, Canada and Europe. He is well-known in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex area for his evangelism and Bible teaching, and has spoken on numerous lectureships, training sessions and special evangelistic meetings.
In 1963, on his return from the European mission fields, at the Haun Freeway church he established a preacher-training school in Dallas for training evangelists among Churches of Christ. This preacher training school ultimately grew into the Preston Road School of Preaching of Dallas and over forty years graduated more than forty classes of gospel preachers. He has been involved in extensive radio and television evangelism emphasizing the differences in the Old and New Covenants. He recently completed twenty-five years of continuous radio broadcasting on his program UNDERSTANDING THE BIBLE with Dan Billingsly. He is currently producing a new video series.
For many years he was editor and publisher of two biblical studies, Doctrinal Bible Studies for gospel preachers, elders and Christians, and Fundamental Bible Studies for Christians and those who are not members of Churches of Christ.
He has authored numerous books and studies includingThe New Testament Of Jesus Christ, a 450 page scripturally and “rightly divided” new covenant according to the teaching of the New Testament, Understanding The Bible, God's Law Of Sin And Death And Christ's New Covenant Law, What About The Gentiles?, Christ And The Marriage Covenant, Understanding The Old Testament Age and Doctrine Of Matthew, Mark, Luke And John, Understanding Why Matthew 19 Is Not New Testament Doctrine, The Devil And Matthew 19, 25REASONS Why Matthew 19 Is Not New Testament Doctrine. He has several other books, studies and videos now in preparation.
Recently he began a new concept of Teleconference Bible Studies all across the country. He has conducted these weekly one-hour telephone studies with brethren in Florida, Pennsylvania, California, Nevada, Alaska, Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Wisconsin and other states and nations. He has other studies with other students world-wide planned.
He has been successfully engaged in teaching more than 1500 students and Churches of Christ about the covenants on the Internet each week. This computer teaching opportunity is unprecedented in being able to reach unlimited numbers of people with the New Testament gospel in all parts of the world.
He has established the Internet Church of Christ on www.Paltalkscene.com, and conducts worship services at 9:00am CST on Sunday mornings in TheNewTestamentChurchOfChrist room along with Bible studies on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:00pm. He studies why Matthew 19 is not New Testament doctrine and why second marriages are sinless on Mondays and Wednesdays in the Marriage Divorce Marriage room at 7:00pm.
Truly, Billingsly realizes that opportunities in the world of the computer and Internet are staggering. He has conducted 1000's of home Bible studies over the past fifty-five years. He taught, baptized and united hundreds of families in Christ and the New Testament church. During a study in Garland he baptized twenty-three members of one family.
Dan Billingsly - Bibliography
