Malcom Ollie "Mal" Couch, Jr. (July 12, 1938, Dallas, Texas, USA[1] – February 12, 2013[2]) was the founder and first president of the Tyndale Theological Seminary.
[3] While president of Tyndale Theological Seminary Couch recruited some very well known scholars and Bible teachers to teach the student body.
Dr. Norman Geisler, Dr. Paige Patterson, Dr. Robert Lightner, Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, and Paul Enns were used in the educational endeavors at Tyndale Seminary.
Mal's colleague Dr. Norman Geisler calls these two truths, inspiration and inerrancy, "epistemological fundamentals" which are "tests of evangelical veracity.
We cannot in one sentence claim to believe the Bible as truth and yet then interpret it in such a way that we undermine the very words used by God to convey his heart and mind to us.
Mal has shown not only God's work in the past with creation,[9] the present in salvation and sanctification, but he has also faithfully pointed us to the future restoration where Christ will return to rule and reign as King.
Throughout his numerous books he has edited or written, such as the "21st Century Biblical Commentary Series," "The New Covenant" and "My Eyes Shall See the King," along with "The Coming of the Holy Spirit" people can see the teachings about God's original creation, man's fall into sin, Christ's work of redemption, and the Holy Spirit's work in creating and empowering the body of Christ for the task of the Great Commission.
Additionally Couch wrote and edited "A Bible Handbook to the Acts of the Apostles" so people can go back to Scripture and actually see the first hand principles and patterns of the first disciples of Christ.
He warned others often about secular (anti-biblical) psychology, materialism, mysticism, hedonism, evolution, feminism, existentialism, relativism, and Gnosticism as "the philosophies destroying Evangelical Churches.
Lacy taught with Mal in the seminary and she instilled some of the greatest truths for a healthy spiritual life in her students through her counseling courses.
Her courses and lectures on family life, counseling, and other related biblical truths were refreshing and probably somewhat reminiscent of Priscilla in the NT era.
[8] In fact, together Mal and Lacy seemed to model well the life of a biblical familial patriarchy that opposed not only gender feminism but also male chauvinism.
Mal and Lacy avoided the extremes of male chauvinists who claim women have no place or role in the work of Christian ministry.