Chapel highlights for Spring ‘08 include Page, Hunt
Posted by jhallsebts on February 8, 2008
Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, will lead the list of prominent speakers to address the Southeastern family during chapel at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary this spring.
Chapel services at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary begin on January 29, with seminary president Daniel Akin speaking. The schedule continues with other notable leaders, including Page, pastors of First Baptist Church of Taylors, S.C., who is currently serving in his second term as SBC president.
“Dr. Akin is committed to lead Southeastern to produce Bible expositors — preachers and teachers who know how to study and expound God’s Word,” said Allan Moseley, Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students. “In chapel, our students have the opportunity to see Bible exposition modeled in worship. Such observation augments what the students read in books and hear in lectures concerning how to preach.”
Though Page and Akin will be leading the semester’s line-up of well-known Southern Baptists, others will also be preaching expositionally during chapel services. The schedule includes Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.; Thom Rainer, President of LifeWay Christian Resources; and Geoff Hammond, President of the North American Mission Board.
During Southeastern’s annual Commissioning Service, when students who are participating in missions programs are commissioned by the school, beloved Southern Baptist pastor Johnny Hunt will be speaking. Hunt has been the pastor of First Baptist Church in Woodstock, Ga., since 1986.
John Lennox, world-renowned mathematician and philosopher, chaplain at Green College Oxford, member of the Trinity Forum and Senior Fellow of the Whitefield Institute in Oxford, will be speaking in March during two chapel services as part of the Carver-Barnes Lecture Series, which is annually sponsored by Southeastern’s L. Rush Buss Center for Faith and Culture.
“We want our students to grow in the likeness of Christ. Corporate worship is an essential part of spiritual growth. The local church is most important here, but there is also a special place for a seminary community to worship as part of preparation for ministry,” Moseley said. “Also, in chapel worship our students are exposed to wonderful men of God who preach, so the students can grow by following such examples.”
Chapel services are held at 10 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday and on certain Wednesdays of each semester. The entire chapel schedule is viewable online at www.sebts.edu/chapel/chapelSchedule.cfm.To listen to messages online you can subscribe to Southeastern’s free podcasts at www.sebts.edu/chapel/podcast.cfm.
