Jeff Purswell is dean of our Pastors College and leads pastoral and theological training for Sovereign Grace Ministries.
Jeff is the editor of Bible Doctrine, an abridgment of Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology, and contributed a chapter to Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World. He serves on the advisory group of the Entrust Foundation.
Jeff is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in New Testament Studies from The Catholic University of America. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois (M.Div., 1998), where he taught Greek as a teaching fellow in the New Testament department and worked as a teaching assistant in systematic theology for Wayne Grudem. Jeff’s pre-ministry experience combines a degree in Economics and English Literature with a decade in the corporate banking world.
Jeff lives in the Gaithersburg area with his wife, Julie, and their two sons, Samuel and Benjamin.