Volume 69, Number 6
Campus Newspaper of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary • Fort Worth, Texas
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
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Professor revives Patterson inerrancy debates from Conservative Resurgence pg 4 »
the scroll Huckabee urges scholarship support for the College at Southwestern By Keith Collier | SWBTS
Billy Graham’s “My Hope America” reaches football team By Alex Sibley | SWBTS Having won only one game in three years, the Thomas Jefferson Patriots needed hope. Luis Lama, a Southwestern alumnus who now serves as associate minister of Prestonwood En Español, spent 10 weeks this season as this Dallas high school football team’s chaplain. For the first nine chapel services, Lama went through the book of John to teach the team about Jesus in the context of athletics and what a real man looks like. Knowing that he wanted to end the chapel series with an invitation, Lama attained permission from the team’s coaches to host an off-campus breakfast for the final chapel Graham pg 5 »
Former Arkansas Governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee spoke to a crowded banquet room at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Oct. 4, asking them to invest in the future of America by supporting the College at Southwestern’s Legacy Scholarship. “The reason that the College at Southwestern is an incredibly important part of America’s future is because there just aren’t too many places in all of this country that are truly equipping young people beyond the ‘what’ and deep into the
‘why,’” said Huckabee, host of the hit show “Huckabee” on Fox News. “One of the reasons I’m excited to be here tonight and so grateful for Dr. [Paige] Patterson’s vision for the College at Southwestern from the beginning is because he still believes that training students not in just what to think but how to think is the greatest kind of education that a student will ever have.” Huckabee, who received the distinguished alumnus award from Southwestern in 2012, explained Huckabee pg 2 »
Handel’s Messiah continues to draw members of community By Michelle Tyer | SWBTS With Christmas still more than a month away, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Master Chorale and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra proclaimed Christ’s birth through this year’s performance of Handel’s Messiah, Nov. 5. Under the direction of conductor David Thye, the chorale, orchestra, and performers Soo Hong Kim (soprano), Angela Cofer (alto), Leo Day (tenor), and J. David Robinson (baritone) performed the classic work, which the seminary has hosted for more than 90 years. Members of the community as well as those with connections to the seminary
filled Truett Auditorium to hear in music the story of Christ’s birth, death, and triumph over death through His resurrection. For about 30 years, Gary and Loreta Montgomery have annually driven from their home in Willow Park, west of Fort Worth, to hear Messiah. The couple’s son-in-law attended Southwestern, but Gary said their only other connection to the seminary is that they are Southern Baptists. “We can’t stand to miss it,” Loreta says of Handel’s most popular work. “It’s just always so good.” Over those 30 years, Gary says they
have seen the seminary and even the city change drastically, but Messiah has been consistent. “This never changes,” Gary says. “That’s the good thing about it.” Leo Day, dean of the School of Church Music, sang the tenor part of Messiah in this his first semester at Southwestern. The part was not new for Day, who has sung in many other performances of Messiah over the years. “It felt great,” Day says of being asked to sing. “And [I] felt also a certain sense of weight that came with that.” But despite Messiah pg 2 »
Businessmen Look to marketplace as mission field By Alex Sibley | SWBTS “Is it any wonder in this globalizing world that God would use the marketplace to move in a really new and fresh and dynamic way?” Posed by keynote speaker Neal Johnson, this question served as the overarching theme of the Kingdom Professionals Conference at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Nov. 1-2. Johnson, chair of the Business and Management department of Hope International University in Fullerton, Calif., addressed students, professors, missionaries and businessmen, encouraging them not to choose between missions and business but to do both, reaching people for Christ in the marketplace. “Our concept is that you can be called to business the same as a pastor is called to the pulpit or a traditional missionary is called to the mission field,” Johnson said at the conference’s opening session. “This is not something that is in addition to traditional missions; it's something that is augmenting it. “God has explicitly called [business people] and anointed them. They can bring transformation to their jobs, to their companies, to their cities, to their nations.” Marketplace pg 2 »