The Scroll - Feb. 13, 2014

Volume 69, Number 8

Campus Newspaper of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary • Fort Worth, Texas

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Spring Kickoff unites students with spirit of competition

By Alex Sibley | SWBTS

Conference educates church leaders to address urban issues

By Alex Sibley | SWBTS

The sounds of rattling chain-link fences, a cheering audience, and people being pummeled with dodgeballs characterized the 2014 Spring Kickoff, Jan. 24. New and current students, as well as Southwestern faculty, staff and families, gathered together in the Recreation Aerobics

Center (RAC) to enjoy pizza, bounce houses, information about upcoming campus events and local businesses, and the bi-annual dodgeball tournament, a tradition since fall 2010.

“Our goal for Kickoffs is fun and informational,” said Student Life Coordinator

Justin Benson. “We want to welcome new and current students to Southwestern while providing them with as much information about on-campus organizations, events and happenings as possible. We have also been cultivating some Kickoff pg 2 »

Patterson prepares students for spiritual war

By Alex Sibley | SWBTS “Welcome to the war.” Southwestern Seminary President Paige Patterson greeted new students with this startling statement during his spring 2014 convocation chapel message, Jan. 23.

“Unknown to you,” Patterson continued, “on the day that you registered for classes, there was, on your back, a target.

Satan determined from that point that he would disrupt your life, that he would cause you difficulty, sorrow and heartache. …

Around every corner, Satan will be watching. He will do everything he can to take you away. You are walking into danger.”

Patterson’s sermon served as the first in a 12-part series titled “Walking toward Danger: Why a person should use caution when entering the ministry.”

“I will, in the first five messages, introduce you to the officers in your unit,” Convocation pg 3 »

Abortion, fatherlessness, poverty and unemployment were among the issues discussed at the Urban Economics and Ministry Conference, Feb. 6-7, at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

As part of what keynote speaker Tony Beckham called “the urban milieu,” these issues were presented to attendees—mostly pastors and church leaders— so they could lead their churches in addressing them.

“You can't just sit as an ostrich with your head in the sand,” said Beckham, a business consultant and scholar. “You need to have an awareness and grapple with ‘how do you then respond to what’s in the urban milieu?’”

The conference’s theme was “The Urban Church as a Catalyst for Human Flourishing,” and speakers examined how churches can respond to issues common to the urban setting.

During the opening session, Beckham spoke on the creation of wealth, which he defined as “a condition of well-being.”

Beckham argued that wealth is not about dollars but rather a mindset.

Using Deuteronomy 8:18 as his text, Beckham said he derives three principles Economics & Ministry pg 5 »

Seminary women connect over coffee

By Michelle Tyer | SWBTS Welcome week continued well into the second week of class for the women on campus with the Coffee Connection held at the Horner Homemaking House on Jan. 31.

After the successful Chocolate Connection held in the fall semester, Pat Ennis, director of homemaking programs, said they made the decision to hold a similar event in the spring.

“We really felt we needed a second event to connect women in the spring,” Ennis says.

Female students as well as student and faculty wives were invited to the event, which provided a chance for them to get to know each other as well as see biblical hospitality demonstrated. The interns Coffee Connection pg 3 »

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Spring Kickoff » continued from page 1 competed primarily to help welcome and meet new students.

“What better way to forge friendships than to enter into battle together!” Robinson said.

Robinson said the admissions team plans to re-assemble at the Fall Kickoff in order to defend their title, meet new students and challenge familiar ones.

“For us,” Benson said on behalf of Student Life, “[the Spring Kickoff] is always a success if people come and enjoy themselves, if they come meet new people; if they come hang out with friends; if they learn more about Southwestern or Fort Worth. So, it was indeed a success according to the Student Life department.”

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Prior to the dodgeball tournament, attendees visited booths sponsored by Chick-fil-a, Sam’s Club, and Southwestern-related organizations including the Writing Center, the apologetics club and representatives for the upcoming Youth Ministry Lab. But the most popular feature of the Kickoff, as always, was the dodgeball tournament. Nine teams competed, with the team from the admissions office emerging victorious.

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Students help churches in Mexico over Christmas break

By Michelle Tyer | SWBTS

Patterson said. “These are the ones who walk point as you walk behind into the battles that you will fight throughout your ministry. And having introduced you to the five officers that are a part of your unit and that will be there as your guides, then we're going to actually walk into the woods of conflict and find out in the remaining seven messages what it is that we are facing and how we as born-again believers should respond to that.”

Preaching from Galatians 3, the first “officer” to which Patterson introduced students was the law.

“There are two kinds of law,” Patterson said. “There is law that is perfect— and that is God's law—and there is man's law, which is a study in convention and in bad law.”

From the text, Patterson derived three reasons the law exists. The first, from verse 19, is because of transgressions.

“Because it turned out that we were a lawless breed, God gave a law,” Patterson said. “The law that God has given in his Word is a reflection of His person. … The law is given to you so you can see the magnitude of the glorious righteousness of God and know that you can never live up to that status.”

Additionally, Patterson said, the law guards sinners as a restraint from evil as well as from personal destruction.

“God has hedged a safe pasture for you; it’s called the law,” Patterson explained. “And as long as you live within the law, you will enjoy the blessings of God. But tunnel through the fence and get on the outside and, inevitably, you will encounter the sorrows of life that follow in lawlessness.”

Verse 24 reveals the final reason for the law’s existence—the law serves as, in Patterson’s words, “a schoolmaster.”

“It brings us,” Patterson elaborated, “taking us by the hand, showing us our own inadequacy, revealing to us the greatness of God, and says, ‘Come and follow me.’”

In addition to Patterson’s sermon, the convocation also included the welcoming of two newly-elected faculty members, Scott Aniol and Dean Sieberhagen, as well as two new presidential faculty appointees, Paul Gould and Stephen Mizell.

To download, watch, or listen to sermons from Patterson’s “Walking Toward Danger” series, visit swbts.edu/chapelseries. For a complete schedule of chapel speakers, visit swbts.edu/chapelschedule.

While some students used the winter break to relax with family or take winter courses, 27 Southwestern students had an opportunity to go to Mexico to assist churches.

Originally, the mission trip was to be led by College at Southwestern associate professor Chuck Carpenter, but an emergency surgery prevented him from going.

Instead, the day before the trip, associate professor Travis Dickinson found out that he would lead the group.

“It all of a sudden went from tagging along to leading,” Dickinson said.

But despite the last second change, the team still departed on Jan. 8 for the weeklong trip south of the border.

The team stayed at a local orphanage in the small town of Tekax in the Yucatan Peninsula, but they spent much of their time traveling to communities as far as two hours away to assist churches.

The group split into two teams, each having students participate in craft, drama, or sports teams. At each location, the teams led programs for the area’s children during the day and often delivered an evangelistic message for the community during the evening.

Members of the team also came prepared with sermons for these services.

One student got to preach for the first time, using a translator.

Dickinson, who has led mission trips before, said he thinks the trip was “great in every way,” adding that one of the key impacts of the trip on the students was getting away from some of the affluence in the United States and seeing the joy of believers in that part of Mexico who had so little.

Photo by Elsa Wilson

by their letting him use their markers to color with.

The students experienced the culture change themselves when they traveled to places where families lived in huts with dirt floors or when they visited a church that consisted of just four walls and a roof. Each night the students even slept in hammocks.

“I just think that makes for a good trip,” Dickinson says. “You see another world and the way people live, and you get to really just minister to them the whole time.”

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That’s one of the biggest things about short-term mission trips. You not only get to encourage believers who are there, but you get to expand the ministry they’re already starting and help them to reach further out than they maybe can by themselves.

–Laura Baskin

“It’s a good reminder for all of us,” Dickinson said. “It’s a good challenge for all of us. But for some of them that have never seen it before, it’s life-changing.”

Music education student Laura Baskin said young Juanito was a perfect example of this—the young boy amazed just

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Although only a week long, Dickinson said the trip was still beneficial both to the students, the lost they came in contact with, and especially the churches they helped.

“It really creates a boost for the church and pastors,” Dickinson said, “especially

the fact that [we] were Americans was enough to draw people.”

Baskin said she enjoyed getting to help the ministries in Mexico.

“That’s one of the biggest things about short-term mission trips,” Baskin says.

“You not only get to encourage believers who are there, but you get to expand the ministry they’re already starting and help them to reach further out than they maybe can by themselves.”

Dickinson says the trip encouraged students to become sympathetic to and supportive of missionaries, whether they plan to become missionaries themselves or not. Already, Dickinson has heard of students planning to return to Mexico over the summer or support the missionaries there with their church.

Baskin, who has been a children’s minister for three years, said she is not sure whether she is called to overseas missions or not, but she saw the trip as a great opportunity and a way to help her own ministry, which includes reaching out to a Hispanic community surrounding her church.

“I just want people to know Jesus,” Baskin says. “So I’m trying to start somewhere.”

Over the course of the week, the team saw more than 20 people accept the Gospel and the gift of salvation.

Coffee Connection » continued from page 1 staying at the Horner House took part in planning and organizing the event, which provided refreshments as well as low-budget ideas for decorations and snacks the women could use in their own homes.

A schedule detailing the planning and organization of the event was left on display as a model of how to plan such an event efficiently, even when other circumstances might interrupt.

First-semester music student Courtney Johnson from Mississippi said she decided to come not just for the free food and coffee but for the chance to meet other students.

“I think it will definitely help me to meet new people and make new friends,” Johnson said.

Before the event even started, Ennis said they covered every aspect of the

event with prayer, saying their goal was for each woman attending the fellowship to leave feeling nurtured, encouraged, and ministered to.

After a good turnout for the Coffee Connection, Ennis said the event was a success.

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Land Center luncheon provides principles for political engagement

By Alex Sibley | SWBTS

Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, an organization that examines and challenges the political witness of America’s churches, spoke at Southwestern’s Land Center luncheon, Jan. 29, communicating principles regarding how Christians should engage the world politically.

Issues facing Christian political witness today, Tooley said, include the ongoing collapse of denominational loyalty in America.

“It used to be that if you wanted to affect how Christians or how churches speak politically,” Tooley said, “it was a matter of going through these denominational structures— go to a church convention to get resolutions passed. But with the collapse of the denominational loyalties, that is less and less possible.”

Other issues Tooley noted include despair over political culture and the fact that more and more Christians are privatizing their faith and focusing on their own spirituality. In response to these issues, Tooley provided principles that could guide Christians and churches as they seek to apply their faith politically and socially in America.

Tooley’s first principle was that “we should be Augustinian in our understanding of the limitations of fallen humanity. … We always have to assume even the very

best of people in the best of times would be imperfect and simple.”

Second, Tooley encouraged confidence in the Holy Spirit’s power to redeem not just individual persons but also whole communities and nations.

“No matter how dark the situation,” Tooley said, “the Holy Spirit can provide the means for redeeming and reclaiming society.”

In addition, Tooley also stressed the centrality of God’s Word for guidance, explaining that Christians need to prioritize issues about which the Scriptures speak directly and be more modest about the other issues.

Other principles included appreciating the church’s universality and avoiding strictly private judgment.

“And that’s hard for Americans, especially for Protestants, especially for evangelicals,” Tooley said. “[We’re] very tempted just to take the Bible on our own and think that we can figure it out unilaterally.

“But of course, we’re not alone. We’re part of the universal body of Christ that’s been around for 2,000 years and has accumulated a wonderful body of moral guidance and ethics and teachings, and so we really need to think through these issues

together as a community, as the body of Christ. And that’ll spare us from a lot of the fads and trends that so much of the Christian world often succumbs to.”

Tooley’s final principle was maintaining an appreciation for providence working mysteriously through many actors on different sides of the same issue, “even some issues [about which] we know there should be absolute clarity and we know where God has placed us and what we need to say and do.”

“We also have to understand,” Tooley said, “that God’s purposes are so wide and so mysterious that He may be using the people on the other sides for some purpose that we don’t yet understand.”

Tooley concluded by asking the question, “Who will pick up the torch of leadership for constructive, redemptive, Christian social political witness in the future years?”

“The answer,” Tooley said, “is known only by God himself, but I think the answer also likely includes many of us here in this room, many who are being called to change politics and cultures of our nation today, to apply our faith in an effective way.”

Church planter’s wife continues education

By Michelle Tyer | SWBTS For more than two decades, Nancy Turner has served alongside her husband, Terry Turner, at Mesquite Friendship Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist plant in Mesquite.

In the fall of 2013, she made the decision to continue her education at Southwestern Seminary by pursuing her Ph.D. in family ministries with a minor in women’s studies.

“I just think it will better prepare me,” Nancy said, especially as she helps her husband, senior pastor at MFBC and recent Southern Baptists of Texas Convention president.

Originally from Oklahoma, the couple moved to the Dallas area in 1989, believing Turner would complete his training at Dallas Theological Seminary and then return to their home state. Instead, Nancy says they felt called to remain and planted the church in 1992.

Beginning with just five families, the church now has more than 2,000 members and has planted several other churches even as far away as Tampa, Fla.

Following her husband’s lead, in 2012 Nancy completed her coursework at Dallas Theological Seminary and then decided to seek her Ph.D. at Southwestern, saying that its values fit closely with her theological views.

She says she believes the further education will train her for ministry but will also one day allow her to teach, which is one of her passions.

After completing her first semester, Nancy said she has already learned a great deal from her classes and their readings.

“It’s going great. I’m enjoying it so much,” Nancy said of the degree program so far. “I’ve been exposed to new ideas I’d never thought of before.”

Nancy says those ideas will equip her as she continues to serve as the Mesquite church’s administrator and as she ministers to families and women of the church.

Turner expects to finish the degree in about three years and says for now she is praying that God will keep her mentally, spiritually, and physically along the way.

“I’m enjoying the journey,” Turner said.

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Economics & Ministry » continued from page 1

The Urban Church As a Catalyst for Human Flourishing featuring

topics • Poverty • Wealth creation • Education

Dr. Tony BEckham Business consultant and scholar

mr. ryan BomBErgEr Founder and chief creative officer of the radiance Foundation

about wealth creation from this verse: (1) God is the one who empowers us to be able to attain wealth; (2) there is a process for obtaining it; and (3) there is a purpose for obtaining wealth, which is so that God can establish something within us, that He would be at the center of all we do.

In addressing the issue of wealth in an urban community, Beckham argued for an asset-based assessment rather than a need-based assessment. The difference, he said, is that a need-based assessment looks at all the problems within a community while an assetbased assessment looks at a community’s potential for sustainability.

An example of this dichotomy is graffiti.

A need-based assessment would view this as a problem that needs to be solved. An assetbased assessment, however, would view this as representing artists who are void of proper space in which to work. The response to this latter view, then, is to redirect the artists’ talents to more legitimate means, such as painting, which could potentially lead to profit and self-sustainability.

Beckham stressed the importance of empowerment, which he defined as “the process of increasing the capacity of individuals to make choices and transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes.”

During a Q&A session, for example, Recalling the Chinese proverb, “Give a man a fish …,” Beckham explained that speakers clarified that it is not the pastor's job to implement all the principles being empowerment is neither giving a man a fish taught at the conference. The pastor’s job nor teaching him to fish but rather allowing is, instead, to raise awareness about these him to own the river that produces the fish. issues and help people within the church to Beckham encouraged asking the right recognize their own gifts so that they can questions of those in need of wealth: “What then implement these principles and bring is it you really want, and what is it you really about change. In this way, the church truly need? Then, how do we journey together to get out of where you are? Suspending my can serve as a catalyst for human flourishing.

Elaborating on this concept, Beckham judgment of who you are and not comparing myself to you, how do we walk together? said, “As the local church pastor, am I a facilitator? What is your church's call given How do I be incarnational and empower you to see, to think, to dream, to have hope?

“I have to, as a facilitator We can provide some coach of that process, be general information. Fitting it able to hear the person, to your precise situation, that's hear God, and hopefully connect those two together where following the Lord, for the empowerment of the praying, and seeking His will development of wealth.” come in.

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Prestonwood pastor Jack Graham recalls seminary days, invests in new generation

By Keith Collier | SWBTS Although Prestonwood Baptist Church pastor Jack Graham leads one of the largest churches in America, he credits his years in seminary as some of the best years of his life.

“Seminary training was vital to my life, and I wouldn’t want to think about ministry without it,” Graham says.

From humble beginnings as a minister at Sagamore Hill Baptist Church in Fort Worth while he attended Southwestern Seminary, Graham went on to pastor rural churches in Oklahoma and then First Baptist Church of West Palm Beach, Fla. prior to becoming pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, in 1999.

Prestonwood has experienced explosive growth under his leadership, with more than 33,000 attending weekly services.

“I never set out to build a ‘big church,’” Graham says. “What I did set out to do was to fulfill the Great Commission and be the pastor of a local church. I’ve never desired to do anything but be a pastor of a local church and to lead that church to fulfill its mission locally and then ultimately to the world globally.

“All of this massive growth that God has given us as a church, that’s just all glory to Him. And I’m just grateful for the privilege.”

Graham looks back on his days as a Master of Divinity student as formational for his life and ministry.

“I had this incredible opportunity to learn how to lead and pastor a church,” Graham says. “[Sagamore Hill Baptist Church] was a very evangelistic church.

And at the same time, [I was] able to develop my studies and my mind and grow in my ministry skills. That balance really launched me and really put me ahead in many ways, I feel, in the ministry as far as the practical application.”

Graham credits the mentorship of pastor Fred Swank at Sagamore Hill Baptist as well as the investment of professors and friends as instrumental in rounding out his seminary experience.

“Seminar y education is important because it helps you advance a well-rounded ministry,” Graham says. “By that, I mean at the intellectual level; at the personal, relational level; at the physical level, just the sheer hours and devotion that it takes to discipline yourself, grow your mind, and grow your ministry in your own heart; [and] the spiritual side, obviously.

“For me, as I look back, seminary training was a time of personal renewal and revival. I’m not saying every day sitting in a Hebrew class was revival, but those years in my life were great years. I look back on those years in seminary as some of the best years of our lives because there was so much hope and promise, and [we] had people who cared about [us] … and came along in our lives to bless us and to help us.”

Graham says the seminary experience does not have to be a period of spiritual dryness, as some claim.

“You know, everybody gets concerned that if you go to seminary you get all academically inclined and you lose your spirit and heart—that’s not true,” Graham says. “If you come in with a heart’s desire

to know and love and follow Christ and fulfill your calling, the seminary experience can be a time of personal renewal and spiritual devotion in your life.

“It’s not just an intellectual att a inment , and it’s not just a program or a certificate on your wall. It is developing you body, mind, soul, and spirit so you can be the best minister possible.

Had I missed that piece in my own life, I would be missing a big part of how God prepared me for the ministry He’s given.”

In addition to completing his Master of Divinity in 1976, Graham also became one of the first Doctor of Ministry students at Southwestern, graduating with his doctorate in 1980.

“The legacy of Southwestern is its commitment to preaching, to evangelism, to global witness in missions, and to the personal development of the soul in the minister,” Graham says.

While his studies were crucial for ministry preparation, Graham also encourages seminary students to forge lifelong friendships that will serve them throughout their ministry.

“Lifelong friends that I made in seminary are still important to me this very day,” Graham says.

“We committed together as young students that we weren’t just going to start ministry, we were going to finish ministry. There was a real uniting of our hearts

when we were in seminary to be in this for a lifetime and to give ourselves unconditionally. Some of us have held each other accountable on that all these years. So there are many friends here in ministry that I enjoyed their company in seminary days, and I still do today.”

Throughout his ministry, Graham never forgot the investment made in his life by friends, professors and pastors. Because of this, Graham says, “I just determined that if I was ever given that opportunity going forward that I would reach back and help younger men. So, right now, that’s one of the top three goals of my life, to transition a new generation of leaders.”

One of the chief ways he invests in the next generation is through Prestonwood’s pastoral intern program. Presently, more than 30 interns are also Southwestern Seminary students. As he equips these young men, he sees a great future ahead.

“I have an incredible amount of confidence in the burgeoning, growing, developing generation of young leaders,” Graham says. “God always sees to it that He raises up a new generation of people who are faithful to the Word of God, the testimony of Jesus, and love the church and will serve the church in their own lifetime and in their own generation.

“I’m extremely encouraged about that.

I get fired up when I see what God is doing in young lives. It is very, very important.

I always encourage people who are young in their faith or young in the ministry to get the practical side of ministry, but at the same time the formal side of education that you can get at Southwestern Seminary is important to their discipline and their personal devotion to Christ and their walk in ministry.”

Watch a video interview with Jack Graham at swbts.edu/JackGraham.

Seminar removes stigma of stereotypical poor college student

By Michelle Tyer | SWBTS The stereotypical poor college student is a term that can also sometimes be applied to students studying at Southwestern, many of them having even left or passed over jobs so they can attend seminary.

But Certified Financial Planner Christian Messemer said at a recent financial aid seminar that students can escape that stereotype with careful budgeting and knowledge of available scholarships.

“This is doable,” Messemer said of a debt-free seminary degree, “because the money is out there.”

Messemer, who has been at Southwestern since 2007 working toward his master’s degree and now Ph.D., left behind his career to attend seminary but said he promised his wife they would not go into debt to do so.

At the seminar, Messemer first directed students through a financial checkup before giving advice on how to find scholarships even from outside the institution.

Messemer compared a financial checkup to a yearly physical—before establishing a goal or a budget, a student first needs to

determine his current situation, whether good or bad.

Messemer demonstrated how students can determine their net worth or whether they have a surplus or deficit in funds by creating balance sheets and income statements calculating income, expenses, liabilities and assets. Using that information, students can then budget their available finances.

After determining their financial state, students should search diligently for aid if needed—a search that takes work.

“Sometimes you go through the work for just one little nugget,” Messemer says, but often that nugget is worth it when it allows a student not to go into debt.

Just last year, Messemer said he applied for 100 scholarships, receiving 89 declination letters. But he said those 11 scholarships he received made the other disappointments worthwhile.

Messemer advised students to start with the seminary’s financial aid office and website for the institution’s scholarships such as general, impact, missionary, and new student scholarships. But

the website also provides a list of external scholarships students have received from other sources.

Other theological schools and even private or state universities often have similar lists that can be used to search for scholarships, Messemer says, mentioning that he has even received scholarships from other denominations and an African American sorority.

A former salesman, Messemer said once that scholarship is found, students should not just apply with the usual application, recommendations, and good grades. They should also carefully craft their sales pitch that will set them apart from other applicants by including items such as a cover letter and even photos. These can create a bond between the applicant and the scholarship board and may place the applicant high on the list.

“You’ve got to do something different,” Messemer says. “You have to do something that makes you stand out.”

Students should also set a timeline for themselves when applying so they

have time to gather the information and resources needed for the application and not miss the deadline. After applying, students then need to wait graciously, not demanding a speedy reply, and also respond to a positive or negative outcome with gratitude. Even when rejected, a courteous response could put a student high on the list for the next scholarship an organization awards.

“Every rejection letter puts you one step closer to an acceptance letter,” Messemer said. “Your job is to apply; God’s job is to allocate.”

First-semester graduate student Ashley Anderson said she found the seminar very helpful as she continues her education at Southwestern and searches for financial aid to do so.

“I can always improve my ways of budgeting,” Anderson said. “I want to find ways to be faithful with my time and money while I’m here at seminary.”

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Dean of the School of Theology Southwestern Seminary

Accredited bachelor's or master’s degree, preferably in a writing-related field, and proven writing skills. Teaching experience in composition and grammar and/or tutoring experience preferred.

Physical Requirements 1.

Ability to sit or stand for prolonged periods of time.

2.

Visual acuity to operate a computer.

For more job details regarding this position and many others, please visit swbts.edu/ humanresources or contact Heather Welborn at ext. 6200 or hwelborn@swbts.edu.

*All services are closed during chapel, Tues., Wed. and Thurs.

FEB 28MAR 2

Metochai Valentine Banquet 6:30 p.m. | SBR. Guest Speakers: Malcolm and Karen Yarnell. Dress: Sunday dress or as formal as you want to go.

Free childcare available with reservation for children 6 months through 6th grade. Tickets on sale in the Women's Programs Office (P109) until Feb. 17.

Price: $7.50 per person. Open to all married seminary students.

MAR 3-4

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SPRING 2014

6:30 – 8:30 p.m. | SBR. Spring Finale is a time for the entire college to come together to celebrate our seniors.

Madagascar Mission Trip Up to 6 credit hours available. For more information, contact Daeyoung Lee at wmc@swbts.edu or ext. 7500.

Afterschool Fun 3:30 – 5:00 p.m., Mondays or Wednesdays | NCC. Contact: Cheryl Bell at ext.

2970 or cbell@swbts.edu.

Kindermusik • Family Time | Mondays, 5:30 – 6:15 p.m. Birth–7 Years with parent. Sing, dance, play and make music with the whole family while building listening skills, self-control, turn-taking, cooperation and more!

Land Center/Women’s Programs Dinner

More info: swbts.edu/musicacademy, email musicacademy@swbts.edu or call ext. 3241.

Marriage and Family Conference

SPRING 2014

Chiang Mai, Thailand Mission Trip

Contact Dr. Matt Sanders at MSanders@swbts.edu for information.

Haiti Mission Trip

Representatives of the ABSC will be visiting the campus on Thurs., March 27, to speak with any students interested in potential places of Southern Baptist ministry within the state of Arkansas.

Representatives will be available in the student center throughout the day.

APR 11

The College Spring Finale

• Cuddle and Bounce | Mondays, 6:30 – 7:15 p.m. Birth–1 Year with parent. Play, dance, sing and bond with baby while helping baby develop and grow! Classes begin Feb. 3.

Arkansas Baptist State Convention Spring Visit

SPRING 2014

Up to 6 credit hours available. For more information, contact Daeyoung Lee at wmc@swbts.edu or ext. 7500.

Expository Preaching Workshop: Preaching 1 John

SBR. Guest speaker: Jennifer Morse.

For female students, student wives, female faculty, and faculty wives.

Free child care and free dinner for the first 75 registrants. To register, email mbullens@swbts.edu or call ext. 3600.

MAR 27

Southwestern Singers and Chamber Chorale Concert 7:30 p.m. | RA.

Speakers: Robby Gallaty, Jerry Vines, Paige Patterson, David Allen, Steven Smith and more. For more information, visit swbts.edu/epw.

MAR 7-17

February 19, 2014

Dr. Paige Patterson President Southwestern Seminary February 20, 2014

Rev. Mack Roller Senior Pastor Glen Meadows Baptist Church San Angelo, TX

Dr. Matt Queen

21st Annual Southwestern Photojournalism Conference RC. This event is for those who see Photojournalism as a calling and the act of bearing witness of the Gospel to be important. Award-winning photojournalists will share values and purposes of visual storytelling. Practical techniques will be shared and skills taught. The Student Practicum, limited to 25 college level students who are registered for the regular conference, is Thursday-Friday. The regular conference is Friday evening through Sunday morning. More info: swpjc.org.

Dr. David Allen

February 25, 2014

Announcements FEB 24

Chapel Schedule

SPRING 2014

Southwestern Music Academy

SPRING 2014

RAC Childcare T/Th 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. | NCC. Childcare is available for parents wishing to work out on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Rates for 1.5 hour sessions: Walk-in: $3.50/ child. Monthly: $16/child with $40/ month cap per family. Contact the NCC at ext. 2970 for more information.

Mother's Day Out 8 a.m. – 1 p.m., Tuesdays & Thursdays | NCC. Now enrolling children 2 months to 5 years. One- and two-day programs available as well as dropins on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Extended hours: 1-4 p.m. Information on prices and days at www.swbts.edu/ childrenscenter. Contact: Cheryl Bell at ext. 2970 or cbell@swbts.edu.

Assistant Professor of Evangelism Associate Dean for Doctoral Programs Southwestern Seminary February 26, 2014

Dr. Paige Patterson President Southwestern Seminary February 27, 2014

Dr. David Wilson Senior Pastor Southcrest Baptist Church Lubbock, TX

RAC Programming Hours of Operation: Mon.-Fri. 6 a.m. – 10 p.m., Sat. 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. Closed for chapel Tues.-Thurs, Sun. Swim Lessons (for kids) | Personal Training | Cross Training Fitness | Zumba | Spring 2014 Intramurals – 5-on-5 Basketball, Ultimate Frisbee, Ping Pong Tournaments.

For information about these programs, contact 817-923-1920, ext. 3900.

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Lessons begin Jan. 21. Private lessons for ages 5-adult in piano, voice, strings, organ, flute and guitar. Reduced rate introductory lessons for beginning piano and string students through age 12. Registration is open to voice, piano, organ and violin students. Ten percent discount for siblings and seminary spouses. Laugh & Learn (2-4 yrs.), Move & Groove (4-6 yrs.).

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Blog series a perfect complement to Nye-Ham debate on universe origins

By Keith Collier | SWBTS With the media attention stirred up over the Feb. 4 debate between Bill Nye “The Science Guy” and Answers in Genesis founder Ken Ham over the viability of Creationism as an explanation of universe origins, Christians are bound to find ample opportunities to start conversations and answer questions from friends, families and co-workers about the Bible’s explanation of origins.

A recent, four-part blog series on TheologicalMatters.com by Southwestern Seminary Old Testament professor John Yeo provides a helpful complement to the debate and could prove helpful in these conversations. Yeo’s series, titled “The Inerrancy and Historicity of Genesis 1-3,” examines four questions related to the topic: • What is biblical inerrancy?

• What is the literary genre of Genesis 1-3?

• How should I interpret Genesis 1-3?

• Is Genesis 1-3 historically true?

In Yeo’s first article, he sets the stage by briefly explaining the foundational doctrine of

inerrancy as outlined in the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. Because many objections to a literal, historical account in Genesis 1-3 boil down to a question of the nature of Scripture, Yeo begins the series with an affirmation of inerrancy.

In his second article, Yeo addresses the five most popular opinions on the literary genre of Genesis 1-3: epic myth, exalted prose, semipoetic, polemical theology, and historical narrative. In particular, Yeo counters the view advocated by scholars like Eastern University professor Peter Enns, who say Genesis 1-3 is merely an example of ancient Near Eastern (ANE) myths similar to those found among Israel’s Mesopotamian neighbors.

Because of the Bible’s similarities with ANE myths, Yeo says, “Enns believes that the Bible should be interpreted like any other book.”

However, Yeo argues that the Bible is a unique book of divine revelation. Through textual analysis, he demonstrates that Genesis 1-3 is actually historical narrative rather than myth.

In the series’ third article, Yeo examines the various interpretations of the Creation account in Genesis from evangelicals who

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consider themselves biblical inerrantists. After reviewing the two most common non-literal interpretations, including the day/age view and the framework view, Yeo explains the literal six-day, 24-hour view of creation, to which he holds. In particular, he examines the meaning of the word “day” in the Creation narrative as a lynchpin in the discussion.

In the final article, Yeo zeroes in on the debate regarding the historicity of Adam and Eve. He outlines the views of Enns and University of Alberta professor of science and religion Denis Lamoureux, who say Adam was a metaphorical and poetic device rather than a literal, historical human being. Yeo counters their claims, addressing the text’s literary structure and surveying both Old and New Testament passages to demonstrate the Bible’s own claims that Genesis 1-3 is, in fact, a historical reality and Adam was a historical person.

This series on “The Inerrancy and Historicity of Genesis 1-3” can be accessed at swbts. us/1khd8fT.

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