Background
Gage was born in Beverly, Massachusetts to George V. Gage (1908-1994) and the former Elizabeth B. May (1910-2000).
Gage was born in Beverly, Massachusetts to George V. Gage (1908-1994) and the former Elizabeth B. May (1910-2000).
After high school, he first attended Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga from 1961 to 1962. From 1966-1967, he attended Palmer Seminary in Philadelphia (then known as Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary).
He resigned from the position effective September 9, 2007. As a teenager, Gage surrendered to Jesus Christ to accept the call of ministry. He transferred to the Philadelphia Biblical University (then Philadelphia College of the Bible) in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.
There he received the bachelor of science degree in Bible in 1964.
He thereafter received his doctorate in religion from Newport University in Newport Beach, California. He also studied psychology at The New School in Greenwich Village in New York from 1975-1976.
He died at his home February 11, 2015. He has held various pastorates, including First Baptist Church of Hackensack, New Jersey, and the Wealthy Street Baptist Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he served from 1979-1988.
From 1988 to 1991, Gage was staff evangelist for Highland Park Baptist Church and Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
In 1991, Gage accepted the pastorate of the Haven Baptist Church in Winter Haven, Florida. He also became the administrator of the Haven Christian Academy in 1996. In Hackensack, he had been the founding superintendent of the Hackensack Christian School.
He left Florida after nine years to become pastor of the New York City congregation.