sentences:  GES was founded in June 1986 when dispensationalist Bob Wilkin sent out newsletters to likeminded associates regarding soteriology within conservative American churches.Wilkin had obtained a BS at the University of California at Irvine in 1973, a ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary in 1982, and a PhD at Dallas Theological Seminary in 1985.In 1988, the "Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society" (JOTGES) was founded; Arthur L. Farstad became its first editor.