Kay Arthur

Kay Lee Arthur (born November 11, 1933) is an international Bible teacher, four-time ECPA Christian Book Award winning author, and co-CEO of Precept Ministries International. Kay has systematized studying the Bible, developing a set of steps to follow so as to "mine" the details of the given book under study. Being systematized, it is accessible to lay persons, rather than scholars only. Her method has been used by thousands, being taught and utilized in small to medium-sized home study groups. This method does not teach anything as to what the book under study teaches, but guides the process of the student discovering what is within it. This method relies heavily on inductive study, the process of building the picture from the details. Her method of Bible study, as well as her Bible teaching, her championing of the Inductive Bible Study Method, and her national and international media broadcasts have inspired many others to study the Bible methodically.

Kay Lee Arthur was born on November 11, 1933, in Jackson, Michigan. She grew up in a home that honored God. Her family moved frequently, and in each new community they looked for a church home first, and then looked for a house to live in. Attending Tennessee Temple University, she began nursing school, and graduated in 1955 at age 21. She married her first husband, Frank Thomas Goetz, Jr., who suffered from a bipolar disorder and was manic depressive. She divorced him in 1961. He committed suicide several years later. Kay explained in 2008, "Sin will take you farther than you ever intended to go, it will cost you more than you ever expected to pay, and it will keep you longer than you ever intended to stay. Unfortunately, over the next few years, I sought comfort with several other men including a two-year relationship with a married man." One day she went down on her knees, a harlot, and she got up a saint. Afterwards, she moved on and met Jack Arthur, at the same university she had attended, a decade prior. She and her second husband, Jack Arthur, were serving as missionaries in Mexico in the late 1960s when medical problems forced them to leave the mission field. Jack graduated from Tennessee Temple with a Th.G. in 1956. He began an adventure that would eventually take him to 70 countries, serving with The Pocket Testament League for 10 years. Kay and Jack returned to their home base in Chattanooga, Tennessee, confident that the Lord had further plans for them. Jack became the station manager of a local Christian radio station, and Kay taught the Bible to teens in their living room.