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advance at the Southern Baptist Convention’s THE NEW International Mission Board, June 1. YORK TIMES In addition to his role as dean, Pratt will serve as associate professor of missions. QUOTES “Zane Pratt is one of the world’s premier MOHLER missiologists and most effective missionaries. By Josh Hayes His missions leadership has been stellar, and his experience leading a missionary movement in one of the world’s most challenging regions In an article in The is invaluable,” said R. Albert Mohler Jr., New York Times president of Southern Seminary. highlighting the Pratt earned his bachelor’s degree from Duke Southern Baptist University in Durham, N.C., and his master Convention’s of divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological appointment of Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass. Fred Luter Jr. to the At both Duke and Gordon-Conwell, Pratt of!ce of !rst vice was a fellow student with Mark Dever, senior president, R. Albert pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Mohler Jr., president Washington, D.C., and a Southern alumnus of Southern and former chairman of the school’s board Seminary, states his of trustees. thoughts concerning “Zane is a great combination of biblical multiethnic re!ection and personal action. He’s lived it leadership. out. I’m thankful for the opportunity [for “It’s a historic him] to continue to work to ful"ll the Great development for the Commission, only for this next chapter, as Southern Baptist a stateside teacher,” Dever said. Convention and a SBTS NAMES PRATT Prior to moving overseas, Pratt was a sign of its future, if church planter in Massachusetts as well as it’s going to re"ect NEW DEAN OF BILLY an of"cer in the U.S. Army Reserve. America,” Mohler GRAHAM SCHOOL “Pratt is a renowned leader who will stated. fit well with the kind of energy that is By Josh Hayes “Leadership has to present now in the Billy Graham School,” emerge naturally, said Russell D. Moore, dean of the School but we bear a moral Southern Seminary announced Zane Pratt’s of Theology and senior vice president for responsibility placement as the new dean of the Billy academic administration at Southern to encourage Graham School of Missions and Evangelism, Seminary. “He understands that theology development of August 2011. is not an academic discipline that ought to multiethnic leaders,” he said.
“[Pratt] understands that theology is not an academic discipline that The New York Times Web site carries the ought to be separated from the Great Commission, but the Great full article online at Commission is fueled by theology and theology is informed by the www.nytimes.com Great Commission.”
Pratt comes to the deanship at Southern be separated from the Great Commission, from serving overseas as a missionary from but the Great Commission is fueled by 1991 to 2011. He oversaw missions work theology and theology is informed by the across Central Asia from 2001 to 2011. Pratt Great Commission.” will replace former dean Chuck Lawless who Pratt is married to Catherine with whom he became vice president for global theological has two teenage children, Charlotte and Greg.
4 SOUTHERN SEMINARY | FALL 2011 FORMER BGS DEAN foundation for mission work. “Chuck Lawless is a great man of God, LAWLESS TAKES a man of deep gospel passion and a POSITION WITH IMB wonderful teacher,” said R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Seminary. “He By Aaron Cline Hanbury will devote all these great gifts through the International Mission Board into the lives MOORE Chuck Lawless, former dean of Southern of missionaries around the world.” APPEARS Seminary’s Billy Graham School of In his new role, Lawless will provide Missions and Evangelism, became vice theological leadership and guidance to ON CNN TO president for global theological advance the IMB and its personnel, while helping DISCUSS at the International Mission Board, June 1. strengthen relationships with Southern The IMB Board of Trustees unanimously Baptist churches, seminaries and other ROBERTSON’S elected Lawless in an effort to emphasize partners. Since 2008, he consulted the COMMENTS the importance of sound theology as the IMB about theological education while By Josh Hayes continuing in his work at Southern Seminary. Now Lawless will dedicate his Southern Seminary’s “[Lawless] will devote all full attention to that work. Russell D. Moore ap- Lawless served SBTS as dean of the these great gifts through the peared live on CNN’s Billy Graham School and vice president of “Newsroom”, Sept. International Mission Board academic programming since September 16. Moore, dean of the 2005. Prior to his deanship, Lawless taught into the lives of missionaries School of Theology and as a professor of church and community in senior vice president around the world.” the Graham School, beginning July 1996. for academic adminis- tration at SBTS, spoke about “700 Club” host Pat Robertson’s ad- vice that a man should divorce his Alzheimer- ridden wife, saying that Robertson’s coun- sel does not agree with a Christian per- spective of marriage. “It is a grievous thing to hear a Christian leader speak in this way,” Moore said in the CNN interview. “Ac- cording to the Christian Scriptures, marriage is a picture of the gospel of Jesus Christ.” The CNN appearance follows Moore’s article, “Christ, the Church, and Pat Robertson,” posted Sept. 15 at his blog, www.russellmoore.com CNN’s Web site carries the video of Moore’s appearance, “Christian outlash over Robertson advice,” at www.cnn. com/search
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“The moment you say ‘We have to abandon this theology in order to have the respect of the world,’ you end up FORMER SBTS PROF Chitwood earned his master of divinity and doctor of philosophy degrees from with neither CHITWOOD ELECTED Southern Seminary. biblical TO LEAD KENTUCKY “Paul Chitwood is one of the most respected young leaders in the Southern orthodoxy nor BAPTISTS Baptist Convention and in Kentucky Baptist the respect of By Josh Hayes life,” said Russell D. Moore, dean of the School of Theology and vice president for academic the world.” The Kentucky Baptist Convention (KBC) administration at SBTS. “He understands _____ announced the election of Paul Chitwood Kentucky Baptists and he understands the as executive director-treasurer of the urgency of the Great Commission. I could R. A"#$%& convention, May 2011. not be more thrilled with his selection as M'("$% J%., Chitwood served as associate professor of executive director-treasurer of the Kentucky P%$)*+$,& '- evangelism and church growth at Southern Baptist Convention.” S'.&($%, Seminary from 2007 until 2011. He began Chitwood served as senior pastor of First S$/*,0%1 his position as KBC executive director, July Baptist Church in Mt. Washington, Ky., from ', N0&*',0" 1. He replaces former director-treasurer Bill 2003 until taking on his new administrative P.#"*2 R0+*' Mackey who retired May 31. role. Prior to that, he served pastorates in T($ 0%&*2"$ “Kentucky Baptists will be celebrating the other Kentucky Baptist churches. 0,+ 0.+*', nomination of Dr. Paul Chitwood as executive Chitwood was KBC president in 2005-06, “E30,4$"*20") director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. following his term as !rst vice president Q.$)&*', &($ I have known Paul for many years, and he is in 2003-04. In 2002, he was president of E5*)&$,2$ '- a man of deep conviction, Great Commission the KBC Pastors’ Conference. Additionally, A+0/ 0,+ E3$,” passion, pastoral vision, tremendous from 2008 to 2010, Chitwood was chairman 0%$ 030*"0#"$ 0& personal skills and leadership ability. He will for the International Mission Board of the 666.,7%.'%4 provide outstanding leadership for Kentucky Southern Baptist Convention. Baptists across the generations - of that, I am A native of Tennessee, Chitwood and his certain,” said R. Albert Mohler Jr., president wife, Michelle, have three children, Daniel, of Southern Seminary. Anna and Cai.
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Missions and Evangelism at Southern, existing to facilitate research and provide resources, opportunities and training related to Great Commission work in urban settings. Dehoney was a long-time pastor of Walnut Street Baptist Church in downtown Louisville. While there, Dehoney led the church to develop multiple ministries to reach the city for Christ. The goal of the Journal of Urban Ministry is to serve as a resource for academics and practitioners who desire to reach cities in the same fashion as Dehoney. “This journal makes a signi!cant contribution to the !eld of urban ministry. While many evangelicals are beginning to talk about the importance of reaching the world’s urban contexts, few helpful resources exist. I am delighted that we now have a journal that attempts to wed the academic and the practical aspects of urban ministry,” said J.D. Payne, associate professor of church planting and evangelism and director of the Center for North American Missions and Church Planting at Southern Seminary. JOURNAL SPEAKS TO at the Southern Baptist Convention’s The Summer 2011 issue carries the International Mission Board. Lawless theme, “Islam and the City.” It features URBAN ISLAM served as the original editor-in-chief articles from J.D. Greear, George H. By Josh Hayes of the Journal of Urban Ministry. Martin and a host of missionary A publication of the Dehoney practitioners on the !eld in Muslim Anyone who paid attention to Center for Urban Ministry Training cities. The next issue, scheduled for late Southern Seminary recently has at Southern Seminary, the Journal fall, will discuss urban church planting. likely heard the institution’s phrase “We are serious about the gospel.” In accord with this mindset is “While many evangelicals are beginning to talk about the the Journal of Urban Ministry. The journal exempli!es the seminary’s importance of reaching the world’s urban contexts, few commitment to scholarship and helpful resources exist. I am delighted that we now have a evangelism by giving readers a combination of perspectives about journal that attempts to wed the academic and the practical pertinent missions issues with aspects of urban ministry.” articles from both academic scholars and experienced practitioners. “Our goal with the journal was to of Urban Ministry offers two issues Those interested in learning more create an online, accessible resource each year, available both in print about the Journal of Urban Ministry that is both academically credible and online. Named after the late and the Dehoney Center can visit and practically relevant for urban Louisville pastor, Wayne Dehoney, www.urbanministrytraining.org, practitioners,” said Chuck Lawless, vice the Dehoney Center is the newest where they can also !nd subscription president for global theological advance entity of the Billy Graham School of information for the journal.
8 SOUTHERN SEMINARY | FALL 2011 BOYCE CERTIFICATE BUILDS WORLDVIEW FOUNDATIONS By Emily Gri!n MOHLER Boyce College, the undergraduate arm of Southern Seminary, announced the DISCUSSES development of its Worldview Studies THE MORAL Certi!cate, Summer 2011. The aim of the program is to help !rst- REVOLUTION year collegiate students strengthen their OF HOMO- biblical foundations. The Worldview Studies Certificate is a 33 credit-hour program SEXUALITY, designed to be completed in one academic IN WSJ year. Coursework will challenge students By Josh Hayes SEMINARY CREATES spiritually as they participate in Boyce College student life events and in campus In the July 1 edition CENTER FOR STUDENT programs. The certi!cate will culminate of The Wall Street SUCCESS with the capstone course, “Christianity on Journal, R. Albert By Emily Gri!n the Secular Campus,” taught on the grounds Mohler Jr., president of Harvard University by Southern Seminary of Southern Semi- The road to graduation is not always smooth graduate and Boston Red Sox baseball team nary, offers com- for seminarians. Realizing this, Southern chaplain Bland Mason. mentary related to Seminary created the Center for Student Suc- Dan DeWitt, dean of Boyce College and the moral revolution cess during Summer 2011 to help students founder of the Worldview Studies Certi!cate, of homosexuality. as they progress toward graduation. said: “A house built on a poor foundation Make no mistake, “Academic success is relative to each cannot stand for long. After reading study Mohler says, a moral student – but graduation is every student’s after study, I quickly recognized that a revolution has taken end goal,” said Matt Minier, director of growing number of students quit attending place. One does not student success. church after they graduate from high school. need to take a poll to Minier, who joined Southern from While numerous factors contribute to this learn this. Rather, he Cedarville University, sees the Center for problem, at Boyce College we believe it is writes, “All we need Student Success as a place to !nd answers primarily an issue of foundations. to do is to talk to our and receive academic support. “Whether our students decide to pursue a neighbors or listen to “As a student, if you have questions and degree at Boyce College or any other institution the cultural chatter” don’t know where to go, we want to be your they will leave our program and campus in order to realize !rst stop,” Minier said. “We are here to be con!dent, prepared and with a !rm grasp of that acceptance of the fully responsive to students’ needs.” what constitutes a Christian worldview.” homosexual lifestyle The Center for Student Success is housed More information about the Worldview has become norma- in Norton Hall, suite 154, along with Studies Certi!cate is available at www. tive in today’s society. Financial Aid and the Dean of Students. It boycecollege.com. Boyce College Because of bibli- provides services for academic advising and admissions information is available at www. cal authority, Mohler academic achievement as well as support boycecollege.com/admissions contends that the for international students and students with church cannot com- disabilities. promise concerning Along with Minier, the center’s staff this issue despite the includes: Mike Withers, manager for cultural pressure. international students and students with disabilities; Garnetta Smith, academic The Wall Street counselor; Amy Crider, writing coordinator Journal Web site for Boyce College; and Bethany Breland, carries the entire administrative assistant. article, “Evangelicals “Our mission is to assist students on their and the Gay Moral journey,” Minier said. “From orientation to Revolution,” at graduation, we’re here to see you through.” www.wsj.com
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2011 HERITAGE GOLF this way, the purpose of the scramble- and president of Axletree Media.. “The style tournament is the furtherance of event creates leverage for the school to CLASSIC DOUBLES the gospel of Jesus Christ. raise money. I’ve long appreciated the PLAYERS, GROSS Several factors contributed to the work of Southern Seminary.” success of the Heritage Golf Classic Among Axletree’s resources is AND PROFIT FROM from prize giveaways to free food. E-zekiel, a Web hosting service geared PREVIOUS YEARS Prizes included name brand golf specifically for ministry, enabling By SBTS Communications clubs, golf bags, Sky Caddies and an users to publish blogs, Web pages and iPad. Chick-!l-A and Mark’s Feed Store photo albums in addition to audio, The Southern Baptist Theological provided food and refreshments while video and other content. Seminary hosted the eighth annual professional bluegrass musicians Lying at the intersection of ministry Heritage Golf Classic, Aug. 22. entertained participants. and the Internet, Axletree Media The event doubled the number hopes who the future pastors and of participants from last year’s leaders who pass through Southern tournament. And those double- Seminary’s halls will consider the vast participants helped the contest raise opportunities the Internet offers. more than $115,000, nearly triple last “We are passionate that the church year’s amount. does not utilize the Internet and we “In every way, the golf tournament want to in"uence students to know surpassed our expectations this its possibilities for kingdom purposes,” year,” said Jason Allen, vice president Nix said. of institutional advancement and AXLETREE MEDIA With a global focus upon building executive director of the SBTS up Christian ministries, Axletree Foundation Board. “I am deeply SPONSORS HERITAGE Media offers its Internet-based tools grateful to Charles Smith, Josh GOLF CLASSIC and services in 25 countries, utilizing Thomas and the Southern Seminary software, services, education and By SBTS Communications ambassadors and the many customer service to assist clients to volunteers who served. Most of all, communicate their message most I am grateful for our players and Axletree Media served as the Naming clearly and effectively. Further, corporate sponsors. The big winners Sponsor for Southern Seminary’s the company helps churches and are Southern Seminary students who recent Heritage Golf Classic, a ministries manage their Web presence bene!t from all of the money raised.” scramble-style golf tournament that and social media The Heritage Golf Classic raises raises funds to affect tuition costs for money for the seminary’s annual fund, SBTS students. Axletree Media is based in which helps keep seminary tuition costs “The Heritage Classic seemed like a Birmingham, Ala. More information as low as possible in order to maintain focal point for the development of the about the company is available at an accessible theological education. In activities of the school,” said Bill Nix, CEO www.axletreemedia.com.
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SBTS HOSTS CONNECTING CHURCH AND HOME By Alli Hill
Southern Seminary hosted the Connecting Church and Home conference, Aug. 26-27. The event exists to equip pastors, church leaders and parents with practical ministry strategies for shepherding families in the church. This year’s conference drew 330 attendees for a weekend focused on the challenges of parenting within the church. Jimmy Scroggins, Randy Stinson, Bill Farley and Russell D. Moore provided biblical insight and personal testimonies during the general sessions. “Every human is hard-wired to have a longing for fatherhood, and when it is disturbed, it changes their lives,” said Moore, dean of the School of Theology and senior vice president for academic administration at Southern Seminary. Moore pointed to the fatherhood of God, encouraging church leaders to display a type of spiritual fatherhood to members. He said discipleship is incredibly diminish in our society,” Farley, senior pastor of Grace often the “dumping of information,” Stinson said. Christian Fellowship in Spokane, referring to the popularity of Christians Scroggins, pastor of First Baptist Church Wash., addressed “How the Gospel relying on podcasts rather than real West Palm Beach, Fla., spoke about Impacts Parenting.” He said all relationships within churches. “Parenting and the Gospel.” Scroggins effective Christian parenting begins Stinson, dean of the School of said God has a design for marriage and and ends by increasingly seeing all of life through the lens of the gospel. Because God elected believers before the foundation of the world, “You have to recover and pursue God’s design from where Farley said a child’s salvation is you are. The only hope for messed up parents and kids is outside of the parent’s control, but God uses effective parenting to point the gospel, and the only context they can get this design is them to the gospel. in the church.” Breakout sessions were led by Steve Wright, Brian Haynes, David Prince, Ryan Rush, Candice and Steve Watters, Church Ministries at Southern parenting, and the two must go together, Timothy Paul Jones and Jay Strother. Seminary, addressed the issue of but sin broke the design. Next year’s Connecting Church God’s assignment of fatherhood to “You have to recover and pursue and Home conference is scheduled men. He said the assignment is not God’s design from where you are,” for Aug. 24-25, 2012. being accomplished. Scroggins said. “The only hope for “The number of ills in our families messed-up parents and kids is the Audio and video from the 2011 that would be eliminated if just dad gospel, and the only context they can conference are available at www. would keep his assignment, would get this design is in the church.” sbts.edu/resources
12 SOUTHERN SEMINARY | FALL 2011 SOUTHERN SEMINARY “From the beginning, we have HOUND DOG WELCOMES D3 YOUTH told youth pastors that this CONFERENCE event is targeted at the leaders By Andrew Walker in their group who want to go
Things became louder than usual at deeper.” - Dan DeWitt, dean of Southern Seminary during the second Boyce College. annual D3 Youth Conference, June 27 - 30. Converging upon the campus were 250 students from states including Illinois, Bancroft and Southern alum and Black Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Hawk Down veteran Major Jeff Struecker. Tennessee, South Carolina and Wisconsin. Nashville, Tenn., music group The Hoffmans “D3” stands for three important aspects led worship along with a special concert “If we are going of discipleship: worldview, leadership and given by hip-hop artist FLAME. to be disciples of missions. Dan Dumas, senior vice president A group from the missions track traveled for institutional administration at SBTS, to Uganda with Suf!ciency of Scripture Christ and known taught the track on leadership while Ministries immediately following the for being his Boyce College Dean Dan DeWitt instructed conference, from June 30 to July 18. There, students about how to develop a Christian they helped take the gospel into schools, people, we have worldview. Shannon Hurley, a missionary with hospitals and orphanages. By the end of to chase after Suf!ciency of Scripture Ministries, focused his the trip, they shared the gospel with more talks on bringing the gospel to the nations. than 6,000 people. Christ followers, Nightly speakers included Southern not walk behind, Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr., D3 2012 will be June 25-28. More information Castleview Baptist Church Pastor Eric is available at www.sbts.edu/events not get to know, not follow, not walk in the path of them. Chase [them] as a relentless hound dog. It is an unbelievable, insatiable pursuit. It says, ‘I cannot get enough.’ Why? Because godly imitation will produce godly sancti!cation.” E"#$ B%&$"'(), pastor of Castleview Baptist Church
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SBTS CELEBRATES old, Sept. 1. These two milestones shaped both Southern Seminary and 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF offered the seminary the opportunity to the convention in ways that continue highlight the life and legacy of McCall, to de#ne them today. M!CALL PRESIDENCY one of the most in"uential #gures in “Dr. Duke McCall is representative of By Aaron Cline Hanbury Southern Baptist history. a generation of Southern Baptists who “Moments of grace are often rare. served and built this denomination, The Southern Baptist Theological And this was an incredible moment its churches and institutions,” Mohler Seminary honored former president of God’s grace and mercy to be able said. “To have Dr. McCall come back, Duke K. McCall, Sept. 6, on the to welcome back a patriarch, Dr. Duke given his own lifespan and role in the 60th anniversary of his election as K. McCall, whose involvement with Southern Baptist Convention and see president of the seminary. Southern Seminary spans more than him received with honor by a chapel In an unprecedented service afforded half of its 152-year history,” Mohler filled with people, most of whom only few institutions, current Southern said. “It was a very rare and singularly were not alive when he was elected Seminary president R. Albert Mohler important occasion for Southern as president, and many of whom were Jr. led a filled-to-capacity Alumni Seminary to honor Dr. McCall for the not alive when he retired as president Memorial Chapel in celebrating McCall’s 60th anniversary of his election as of Southern Seminary was something more than 32 years as president of the president of this institution. that was really, really important.” school. McCall, who served at Southern McCall, whose contributions to the Russell D. Moore, senior vice president from 1951 to 1982 as the institution’s Southern Baptist Convention cover for academic administration and dean seventh president, also turned 97 years most of the 20th century, massively of the School of Theology at SBTS, said
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14 SOUTHERN SEMINARY | FALL 2011 of the opportunity to honor McCall: “I will remember this day as long as “His I live. This was a healing, hopeful day identi!cation for Southern Seminary, a tie between Southern Seminary’s heritage and future.” with us and our Present at the event were not only identi!cation Dr. and Mrs. McCall, but also their four sons and daughters-in-law and with him in members of their extended family, the context of along with several !gures from the McCall era. the year 2011 is “Dr. McCall has made clear his love and priceless.” support for his alma mater, the institution he so tenaciously served,” Mohler said. “His identification with us and our identi!cation with him in the context of the year 2011 is priceless, something Southern Baptists could not have foreseen years ago, but something made possible by God’s mercy and grace to us.”
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SLOAN DELIVERS The distinguishing aspect of a interpreted it so perfectly as to justify FIRST LECTURE OF Christian view of leadership, Sloan my pursuing it at the cost of violating explained, is more than adopting the the commandments of God. The end MCCALL CHRISTIAN label “servant leadership.” never justi!es the means.” LEADERSHIP SERIES “I think it’s the way in which you Sloan noted Jesus’ attitude toward pursue leadership,” he said. “Leadership possessions, particularly food, drink By Josh Hayes is not something in the end that you and clothing - good things that can can obtain, but something that can become idols if focused upon wrongly. Leadership is not obtained but given, only be given.” “If you aim at these things - good Robert B. Sloan Jr. told his audience at the Basing his message on 2 Corinthians things but nonetheless second things inaugural address of the Duke K. McCall 6:1-10, Sloan framed the latter part of - you miss the !rst thing, which is ‘seek Lectures on Christian Leadership series his lecture around three characteristics !rst the kingdom of God, and these at The Southern Baptist Theological of godly leadership: doing the will things will be added to you’,” Sloan Seminary, Sept. 6, 2011. of God no matter the cost; doing it said, expounding upon Jesus’ teaching Taking place on the 60th anniversary without compromise; and doing it no in the Sermon on the Mount. of McCall’s election as Southern’s matter what others say. Other sayings of Jesus, he explained, seventh president, Sloan’s lecture is the “There are people who say at times elucidate this pattern as well: !rst in a series endowed by the McCall that ‘I will do whatever it takes to do “Whoever will lose his life for my sake Family Foundation, an endowment the will of God,’ and Paul has certainly will !nd it” (Matt 10:39); and “whoever that includes the establishment of said that in these opening phrases,” he would be great among you must be the Duke K. McCall Chair of Christian said. “But there is a quali!er, and the your servant” (Mark 10:43). The things Leadership. Sloan is the president of quali!er is this - that the cause is never at which someone aims are precisely Houston Baptist University. so right or so noble and neither have I the things he or she does not obtain, Sloan explained. Rather than seeking leadership, Sloan explained, a person should seek the will of God, and the opportunity for leadership will !nd him or her. The peculiar, counter-intuitive pattern of receiving things without aiming for them is seen in Jesus’ teaching throughout the Gospels, he explained. “I think there are some things in life - and I can certainly say things in Scripture - that are best gained not by aiming at them,” he said. “There are some things we are told that if you aim at them, you don’t really get them. And even if you get them, you end up really distorting them.” The same day as the lecture, the seminary hosted a forum about Christian leadership with Sloan. Led by R. Albert Mohler Jr., SBTS president, the forum consisted of Sloan discussing his leadership experiences throughout his career in academia.
Audio and video of Sloan’s lecture, “Servant Leadership: The Cliché Versus the Reality,” are available at www.sbts.edu/resources
16 SOUTHERN SEMINARY | FALL 2011 WHERE IS YOUR FAMILY PLUGGING IN?
Of all the powerful influences in your family’s life, there’s only one that has Christ as its source and foundation. The Church, grounded in God’s Word and empowered by the Spirit, has no substitute. The Connecting Church & Home conference is designed to equip pastors, church leaders, and parents with practical ministry strategies for shepherding families within the church. This year’s conference is focused on the challenges of parenting in the church. Breakout sessions will be divided into groups of pastors and groups of parents so that each will get specialized training. You connecting won’t want to miss this unique opportunity; CHURCH & HOME register with a group from your church today!
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TRAINED IN THE FEAR OF GOD: FAMILY MINISTRY IN THEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, AND PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE Randy Stinson and Timothy Paul Jones, eds. (Kregel 2011, $26.99) Review by Aaron Cline Hanbury
Trained in the Fear of God seeks to a local church is important because demonstrate that family discipleship the Bible establishes the family as the is a theologically signi!cant and primary unit of discipleship; church historically important component in history provides a rich story of people the life of a local congregation. The who sought to implement the Bible’s book is edited by Randy Stinson, dean teachings about the family in a local of the School of Church Ministries church context; and the church today at SBTS, and Timothy Paul Jones, should seek to follow the Bible’s teaching, associate professor of leadership and learning from the history of Christianity. church ministry at SBTS. Stinson and Jones structure the book Trained in the Fear of God offers essays in three sections; biblical-theological, written by established scholars about historical and practical perspectives. the biblical-theological, historical and The book shows how the importance practical foundations of local church of family ministry organically arises in family ministry and discipleship. The Christian thought. book argues that family ministry in
Contributors write: earliest Christians practiced in the embracing biblical equal to the one perceived home- congregation. This womanhood, and who holds ultimate “To be trained in based discipleship includes considering children embracing authority in their the fear of God was, _____ how local their biblical roles relationships.” at least in part, to “The gospel is what congregations teach under their dads - Bruce Ware, in be disciplined to changes people on the subjects and moms — this his chapter, “The live with reverence — not programs of marriage and is what the family- Father, the Son, for an order or practices; not parenting and how equipping church and the Holy that transcends models or methods; they encourage seeks to foster and Spirit: The Trinity immediate but solely and only and minister to to advance. In each as Theological experience or the gospel of Jesus families.” - Nelson of these roles, the Foundation for comprehension.” Christ. Every local and Jones model of the Trinity Family Ministry” - Bryan Nelson church should be (emphasis original) provides invaluable and Timothy Paul concerned !rst _____ guidance, for we Jones, in their about how the “Men embracing see in the Trinity introduction gospel is portrayed, biblical manhood, that the ones who about how the presented, and women submit are fully
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WHAT IS THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH? MAKING SENSE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE, SHALOM, AND THE GREAT COMMISSION Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert (Crossway 2011, $15.99) Review by Josh Hayes
In their new book, What Is the Mission Christians should indeed be about good of the Church?, authors Kevin DeYoung works and passion for changing society’s and Greg Gilbert call their readers to problems. Nevertheless, not everything prioritize rightly the church’s primary Christians can do as individuals should responsibility of disciple-making. necessarily fall on the church to do as DeYoung is senior pastor at University an institution. Reformed Church in East Lansing, Mich. What Is the Mission of the Church? Gilbert, a Southern Seminary graduate, assesses a complicated issue with !rm, is senior pastor of Third Avenue Baptist enlightening conviction and without Church in Louisville, Ky. resorting to reductionistic treatment In its 288 pages, the book covers the most of alternate viewpoints. DeYoung and pertinent issues related to the church’s Gilbert set a !ne scholarly and pastoral role in the world: mission, social justice, example of loving their differing- kingdom, gospel, shalom and scriptural viewpoint neighbors as themselves. exposition and application. Those who love the church as they DeYoung and Gilbert contend that love themselves should read this book.
DeYoung and re-embody Christ’s world, this does only a means to !rst in theological Gilbert write: incarnational not mean we are some other end causality, and !rst ministry any more against cultural (evangelism), but in missions priority. “We are concerned than we can repeat engagement. Our neither do we want God will make that in all our his atonement. point is simply to exaggerate our all things new, passion for renewing Our role is to bear that we must responsibility by but our job in the the city or tackling witness to what understand these thinking it is our world is to help all social problems, Christ has already endeavors in the duty to build the peoples !nd a new we run the risk of done.” right theological kingdom through relationship with marginalizing the _____ categories and our good deeds.” God. We are not one thing that makes “Though we do embrace them _____ called to bring a Christian mission not believe that without sacri!cing “Universal broken planet back Christian: namely, the mission of the more explicit shalom will come, to its created glory. making disciples of church is to build priorities. We but personal But we are to call Jesus Christ.” the kingdom or to should not cheapen redemption comes broken people back _____ partner with God good deeds by !rst – !rst in to their Creator.” “We cannot in remaking the making them temporal sequence,
20 SOUTHERN SEMINARY | FALL 2011 IS HELL FOR REAL OR DOES EVERYONE GO TO HEAVEN? Christopher W. Morgan and Robert A. Peterson, eds. (Zondervan 2011, $9.99) Review by Josh Hayes
To contemporary culture, the idea implications of discarding the doctrine. of human beings suffering eternal Featured in the book are chapters torment is met with not only from Southern Seminary President intellectual skepticism but moral R. Albert Mohler Jr., editors Morgan revulsion. Beyond that, for one to and Peterson, emeritus theologian J. I. suggest that a deceased individual’s Packer and New Testament professor fate may be that of never-ceasing !re Robert W. Yarbrough. Furthermore, and brimstone is absolutely taboo. Manhattan pastor Tim Keller offers an For this reason, editors Christopher appendix discussing how Christians W. Morgan and Robert A. Peterson should talk about hell in a tolerance- put together the book, Is Hell for Real obsessed, pluralism-friendly society. or Does Everyone Go to Heaven? In At less than 90 pages, Is Hell for Real answering the question posed in the or Does Everyone Go to Heaven? offers a title, the book’s contributors consider robust, accessible perspective about a the church’s historic stance about the discussion that will likely not dissolve nature of God’s eternal justice, the any time soon. biblical teaching about hell and the
Contributors write: the horizon. For sin. Leaving compared to God’s God’s grace and as the church Scripture behind, love in the Bible.” love, and of human “How did such a has often been they second-guess – J. I. Packer, in dignity and our central doctrine reminded, no God’s plan by his chapter, “Does value to him. To come to suffer doctrine stands contending that Everyone Go to preach the good widespread alone. Take away he uses hell to get Heaven?” news, we abandonment hell, and the entire sinners back on _____ must also preach among some shape of Christian track at last. In “In the end, the loss the bad.” – Tim Christians? The theology may be so doing they fail of the doctrines of Keller, in his chapter, answer lies in altered.” – R. Albert to take the full hell, judgment, and “Preaching Hell in a the history of Mohler Jr., in his measure of the the holiness of God Tolerant Age” Christianity in the chapter, “Is Hell for tragic twisting and does irreparable modern world, Real?” shattering brought damage to our and it warns of _____ about by sin. Their deepest comforts further possible “Universalists seem account of God’s – particularly our compromises on not to understand love seems shallow understanding of
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president are positive steps. The new movement among young leaders. Organized networks such as 9Marks and Baptist 21 are intentionally connecting and mobilizing young Southern Baptists. The church planting surge among Southern Baptists is being spearheaded by guys in their 20s and 30s. And don’t forget that the Conservative Resurgence was led by pastors in their 30s and 40s – Vines, Patterson, Hawkins, Stanley, Rogers and Pressler were young when they made their mark. An explicitly competitive posture. The SBC and its agencies are repositioning themselves to compete in a world where other attractive opportunities for church cooperation abound. We are going to have to continually persuade new generations that the CP is the most effective place to invest missions dollars. The rising cohort of Southern Baptist churches and leaders will not cooperate out of loyalty or guilt. They will respond to AN EXCERPT: SBC Commission and our shared strategy compelling vision for pushing back lostness in cities and Smaller doesn’t have to equal MAY BE SMALLER – among peoples around the world decline in effectiveness. A leaner, AND BETTER is why the CP is the best place for younger, more agile, more focused, By Jimmy Scroggins churches to invest missions dollars. more diverse denomination will Outstanding new leadership. continue to make a huge impact for We may have to admit it – the Southern New leadership at the Executive Christ. And I still believe that the Baptist Convention is getting smaller. Committee, the North American whole is greater than the sum of its We just finished gathering in Mission Board and the International parts. We can do more for King Jesus Phoenix for our smallest annual Mission Board are breathing new life together than any of us could do meeting since World War II. Not and vision into our cooperative efforts. on our own. That is why I am more only that, but almost all of our denominational statistics are headed downhill, from our cumulative “Smaller doesn’t have to equal decline in effectiveness. A baptisms to the number of regular leaner, younger, more agile, more focused, more diverse attenders in our churches. And we have lower amounts being given to denomination will continue to make a huge impact for the Cooperative Program (CP). Annie Christ. ... We can do more for King Jesus together than any and Lottie are struggling. In spite of our challenges, our mini- of us could do on our own.” meeting in Phoenix actually served to advance my growing optimism about the SBC. Here are some reasons why: Our commitment to expand beyond motivated than ever to participate in Church planting and unevangelized, our “whiteness.” The af!rmation of the the Great Commission work of the unreached people groups are on the front Executive Committee report on ethnic Southern Baptist Convention. burner in a fresh way. This is why I diversity, passage of the resolution “On The previous article originally want my church to give to the CP. Our Immigration and the Gospel,” and appeared in full in the Florida common commitment to the Great the election of our !rst black vice Baptist Witness.
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.0)-&346((&454 11 FOR ‘11 By Aaron Cline Hanbury
Southern Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. offered 11 books he thinks every pastor should read in 2011. Mohler’s suggestions include collected essays, books about biblical studies and theology, biographies and more. Mohler published 1. 2. 3. his list in Preaching Magazine and then on SermonCentral.com, June 27.
1. Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church, Kenda Creasy Dean
2. American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell
3. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Eric Metaxas 4. 5. 6. 4. Collected Writings on Scripture, D.A. Carson
5. God’s Glory in Salvation Through Judgment: A Biblical Theology, James M. Hamilton Jr.
6. Heresy: A History of Defending the Truth, Alister McGrath
7. Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God, Paul Copan 7. 8. 9. 8. Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults, Christian Smith with Patricia Snell
9. The Doctrine of the Word of God, John M. Frame
10. To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, James Davison Hunter
11. The Letter to the Hebrews (Pillar New Testament Commentary), Peter T. O’Brien 10. 11.
24 SOUTHERN SEMINARY | FALL 2011 AN EXCERPT: IMMIGRATION AND THE GOSPEL
By Russell D. Moore
The Christian response to immigrant communities in the United States cannot be “You kids get off of my lawn” in Spanish. While evangelicals, like other Americans, might disagree on the political speci!cs of achieving a just and compassionate immigration policy, our rhetoric must be informed by more than politics, but instead by gospel and mission. I’m amazed when I hear evangelical Christians speak of undocumented immigrants in this country with disdain as “those people” PIPER TO SOUTHERN which they pursue missions and evangelism. who are “draining BAPTIST PASTORS: Now, he didn’t come out say it, but he our health care and might as well have. Southern Baptists rightly welfare resources.” BE RADICALLY prioritize evangelism and missions, but often It’s horrifying to GOD-CENTERED do not understand or at least articulate the hear those identi!ed reason the church should pursue these tasks By Aaron Cline Hanbury with the gospel in the !rst place. In the Lord’s Prayer, Piper speak, whatever claimed, Jesus provides the impetus for their position on the He’s not Southern Baptist. But he claims a missions, evangelism and everything else issues, with mean- great respect for what Southern Baptist care the church does. spirited disdain about most: seeing the lost come to Christ. According to the Lord’s Prayer, pastors for the immigrants John Piper, pastor of preaching and vision at should ground their missions and themselves. Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, evangelism efforts in hallowing God’s name, This is a gospel Minn., asked however, “Why?” Piper said. To pursue planting churches issue. Anyone familiar with Piper’s ministry across the world so that all people hear should not be surprised to hear this. the gospel of Christ is to honor God’s name The entire article is Edwardsiophile Piper, after all, wrote a book as the One whose love available at www. calling the church to consider The End for extends to the nations. russellmoore.com Which God Created the World. And his sermon These all-important at the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) tasks only function Pastors’ Conference was no exception. Piper when they’re intensely called SBC pastors to consider the end for God-centered.
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A YEAR OF “THINKING IN PUBLIC” David Skeel looking back: a r Soft patriarchy, conversation with !rm realities: a historian Martin After ending “The Albert Mohler Program,” a daily conversation with E. Marty national radio program last summer, R. Albert Mohler 2. Bradford Wilcox r Media ecology Jr. returned to public conversation in September 2010. r A religious test for and the His podcast, “Thinking in Public,” features conversations public of!ce? a modern mind: a about frontline theological and cultural issues with conversation with conversation with leading thinkers from across the socio-political spectrum. Damon Linker T. David Gordon “The very best conversations happen with people with r Seeking wisdom r Where have the whom you differ. The greatest opportunity for learning for a modern men gone? a is having a conversation with a person who comes from world: a conversation with a very different place. We got to talk to people who were conversation with 4. Kay Hymowitz very serious men and women of ideas. We were able to Leon Kass r What must we have honest, engaging conversations which were cordial r The meaning of learn from the but clear,” said Mohler about the !rst year of the podcast. Handel’s Messiah: bloodlands? a “I thought the !rst season really demonstrated that this a conversation conversation with kind of conversation can happen. I enjoyed thinking with Calvin historian Timothy through the interviews as they happened, I enjoyed Stapert Snyder thinking about them subsequently and, interestingly, r The fate of r Original sin in there are ongoing conversations that came from those ideas in the the twentieth initial talks, which is also fun. I was very excited by the modern age: a century: a !rst season of ‘Thinking in Public.’” conversation with conversation Below are those personalities with whom Mohler 3. Stanley Fish with Andrew S. dialogued during his !rst year of “Thinking in Public”: r The age wave and Finstuen its consequences: r Evangelical fervor a conversation and the crisis of with Ted Fishman the Civil War: a r Moral argument conversation with in modern times: historian David r The spiritual state responsibility in a conversation Gold!eld of the emerging the city of man: a with Robert P. r The moral crisis generation: a conversation with George of secular culture: conversation with Peter Wehner r Four centuries a conversation Christian Smith r Rethinking of the King with Mary r Evangelical secularization: a James Bible: a Eberstadt identity revisited: conversation with conversation with r Moral reasoning a conversation 1. Peter Berger Leland Ryken in a secular age: a with historians r American grace: r What does conversation with David Bebbington a conversation philosophy say 5. Professor Alan and Gregory Wills on religion in to our times? a Dershowitz r The meaning America with conversation with r The fate of of yoga: a Robert Putnam Roger Scruton reading in a conversation r The anguish of r The persistence digital age: a with Stephanie Abraham Lincoln: of place: a conversation with Syman and Doug a conversation conversation with Sven Birkerts Groothius with historian John Shelton Reed r Is demography r A missing front in Eric Foner r Are we really just really destiny? a the culture war? r The morality a blank slate? a conversation with a conversation of bankruptcy: conversation with Joel Kotkin about divorce a conversation Steven Pinker r Christian with legal scholar r Looking forward,
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Nick Nye On non-pro!ts, Doritos and church planting: Nick Nye reaches the nations from Columbus, Ohio
Having no known re- lation to the Bill Nye “The Science Guy,” Nick Nye positively impacts the world with the gospel on several fronts. A father of three and predictably a husband of one, Nye is the visionary and founding pastor of Veritas Community Church in Columbus, Ohio. Earning his master of divinity from Southern Semi- nary’s Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism, he participated in three successful church Twitter: @nicknye Most in!uential authors: Jonathan plants, one of which Web site: www.veritascolumbus.com Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, Richard is international. Hometown: Newark, Ohio Lovelace, C.S. Lewis, Bruce Ware, Fran- He also serves Current Residence: Columbus, Ohio cis Schaeffer and many more. the body of Christ Family: Married to Brittany, with What I want my tombstone by coaching and three daughters: Viola, Charlotte and to read: “With Jesus” assessing church Simone Interesting factoid: I earned planters around Degrees: B.A., Wright State Univer- Eagle Scout at age 15. the world. Beyond sity (world religion); M.Div., Southern Hardest aspect of pastoring: church planting, Nye began three non- Seminary (church planting) The hardest aspect of pastoring is profit organizations Experience: I have had many ex- not giving in to everyone’s demand including the group, periences from touring musician to for your attention. It is also hard to “She Has a Name” someone who picks up trash. I have take criticism from those you love. (www.shehasaname. also served on several church staffs The gospel in 140 characters or com), which stands throughout my Christian life ranging less: Jesus came, died & rose to life against the practice from rural churches to churches for to save a sinful humanity & give us of sex-tra!cking. homeless people. I have been a wor- new life. ship leader, youth director, prayer co- Noted Scripture: 1 Corinthians ordinator, Connect director and more. 2:2, “For I decided to know nothing Favorite music: Elbow among you except Jesus Christ and Favorite food: Doritos him cruci!ed.”
28 SOUTHERN SEMINARY | FALL 2011 Kenny Twitter: @kennytomlin ous student) who showed us around town. Web site: www.rock!shinteractive.com The guy was full-blown crazy and my wife Tomlin Hometown: Pineville, Mo. and I still laugh about that experience. The why and the Current Residence: Rogers, Ark. I had many good teachers and learning what: Entrepre- Family: Married to Dana with two experiences with Southern. I look back on neur and semi- daughters, Hannah and Emma the entire education as one great memory. nary grad leads Degrees: B.S., Southwest Baptist Univer- Most in!uential authors: Steve Blank fast-growing sity (communications and political sci- and Tim Keller digital company ence); M.Div., Southern Seminary (concen- What I want my tombstone to read: tration in church planting) 1972 - TBD Southern Seminary Profession: Serial entrepreneur Interesting factoid: I earned part of my grad Kenny Tomlin Company: Rock!sh, one of the fastest degree online, part of it at extension cen- launched the compa- growing digital agencies in the world ters and part of it at the main campus. ny, Rockfish, in 2006 Professional awards: Advertising Age’s Favorite place in the world: I still and since then it has Agency A-List, OMMA’s Agency of the Year have a lot of places to visit before I can become an award- fairly answer that question. I am a big winning success. and one of the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing No, it’s not a cheesy Companies fan of northern California and southern name for a Christian Favorite music: Every month it’s some- France to date. metal band. Rockfish one different. From Coldplay to Rascal Favorite place for a date: NYC is one of the most Flatts, it just depends on my mood and The gospel in 140 characters or less: recognized and fast- what’s new. Jesus Christ is Lord est growing digital Favorite food: Mexican Noted Scripture: 2 Corinthians 8:9, innovation companies Experience at Southern Seminary: “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus in the industry. So, I never ended up moving to Louisville, Christ, that though he was rich, yet for what’s the connec- but at one point, I thought I would. The your sake he became poor, so that you by tion between theol- seminary recommended a realtor (a previ- his poverty might become rich.” ogy and business entrepreneurship? In a Jan. 2, 2011, Arkan- sas Democrat-Ga- zette article, Tomlin stated, “People ask, ‘Why theology?’ But I think what you do and why you do it are equally important questions.” Far from embracing a form of pragmatism, Tomlin takes seriously the foundation and im- plications the gospel brings to his work as CEO of Rockfish. Ad- ditionally, Tomlin is a mentor and investor for numerous start-up companies and a fre- quent speaker about marketing, technol- ogy and entrepre- neurialism.
SBTS.EDU 29 Leadership and Conviction: Recovering the Vision By R. Albert Mohler Jr.
he secular world thinks of leadership as a soci- ological necessity. Given human nature and the complexity of human society, we need leaders in order to organize human effort into productive channels. History reveals the role of leadership for Tgreat good, and for great evil – but there is no way to remove leaders from the center of the action. In more recent years, leadership has become a secular preoc- cupation. An entire industry has grown up around leadership, with literally thousands of book titles, countless seminars and personal leadership coaches for hire. Colleges and universities offer leadership degrees and just about every major corpora- tion offers leadership training. As is often the case, the church has been deeply in!uenced by this secular conversation. Leadership has become a major focus of evangelical concern, even as it seems that many evan- gelicals are uncertain about how Christians should think about leadership as a calling and as an art. Throughout the last century and more, American Christian- ity has been deeply in!uenced by the business culture. Early in the 20th century, this was re!ected in the emergence of a concern for “ef"ciency” in ministry, adopting the term that was then at the center of business concern. Later, churches adopted models of organization and management that seemed, oddly enough, to make many churches look like American corpora- tions in terms of structure, culture and even vocabulary. More recently, the concern about leadership has been linked to the large business culture, along with its pragmatism. In too many cases, Christians have just imported models and concepts of leadership from the secular world. Much of the sup- posedly “Christian” literature about leadership is just secular thought with a few Bible verses printed alongside. This can lead to the importing of unbiblical models of leadership into the church, and it has produced an evangelical culture of pragmatism that is subversive of both the gospel and of the church itself. Thankfully, the coming generation of young pastors has gen- erally rejected that model of ministry and leadership. They want nothing to do with the doctrinal minimalism and pragmatism of the secular models and their evangelical counterparts. They
30 SOUTHERN SEMINARY | FALL 2011 SBTS.EDU 31 have rejected the absence of theology leadership that is based on biblical Leadership Reading and the marginalization of biblical convictions and driven by a passion ecclesiology that has marked so much to see Christ’s people follow in faith- The Fall 2011 Ministry of Leader- of the mainstream church culture in ful obedience. ship course, taught by R. Albert the United States. Thus, authentic Christian leadership is Mohler, Jr., president of Southern And yet, as much as I am encouraged deeply doctrinal, inescapably theological, Seminary, features a broad range by this rising generation’s diagnosis of unrelentingly biblical and, by virtue of the of leadership texts chosen to chal- the problem they see, they still have Bible’s authority, unavoidably practical. lenge future ministry leaders. The to lead. If the secular world knows The Christian pastor does not lead by following are selected titles from that leadership is necessary because title, or by his own inherent authority. He the required reading list: of sociological realities, the Christian leads by the preaching and teaching of knows that leadership is necessary God’s Word. His leadership credibility is Good to Great because of biblical categories. We are established by his exposition of the Bible Jim Collins taught in Scripture that God’s people and by his presentation of biblical truth. require leadership – and urgently so. He is able to move believers to action, The Leadership Challenge In the Old Testament, we read honest not because he holds an office, but Kouzes and Posner accounts of the patriarchs, judges, kings because he ful"lls that teaching of"ce and prophets who led Israel. In the New with both skill and deep conviction. Testament, we "nd the church led by Authentic Christian leadership Leadership apostles and teachers, who both served becomes evident when God’s people James MacGregor Burns and led as the church followed Christ. are led to know and to obey deep truths The tasks of ministry today require from God’s Word when their intuitions Classic Drucker: From the Pages leadership skills that would humble a For- and patterns of thought are brought of Harvard Business Review tune 500 chief executive of"cer. But, even into conformity with the truth, and Peter Drucker as some of the skills and competencies when believers then go out into the of leadership are common to all contexts world in faithful obedience to Christ. The Effective Executive of leadership, the minister of the gospel And, we must never forget that Peter Drucker is called to a very speci"c form of visible true Christian discipleship is always leadership – leadership by conviction. practical, but never merely pragmatic. On Becoming a Leader Conviction – the knowledge of truth Thus, the Christian pastor must learn Warren Bennis that transforms – is the bedrock of Chris- the skills and competencies of effective tian leadership. The Christian leader is leadership as an extension of his pulpit driven by gospel convictions and a pas- ministry, not as a substitute. Why Should Anyone Be Led by sionate love for the church of the Lord The biblical formula is simple to under- You? Jesus Christ. The art and science of bibli- stand, and impossible to refute. We live Rob Goffee, Gareth Jones cal leadership !ow out of the minister’s and operate out of our genuine convic- "rst and foremost arena of leading – and tions. We do live as we believe. Christians The Leaders We Need: And What that is the role of teaching. are faithful only when our convictions Makes Us Follow The minister leads, most importantly, lead to the right actions, and leadership Michael Maccoby by the faithful teaching and preaching that rises up from authentic biblical con- of the Word of God. The New Testa- victions will produce a church that will Transforming Leadership ment reveals a model of ministerial be taught to live out those convictions in Leighton Ford every dimension of life. In other words, if the church is Getting Things Done Thus, authentic underled, it is because the church is David Allen Christian leadership underfed. Leadership by conviction is the only model of leadership that is wor- is deeply doctrinal, Executive Presence thy of the Christian ministry, and what inescapably theological, the church desperately needs in this Harrison Monarth unrelentingly biblical age is a generation of preachers who and, by virtue of the are driven by the conviction to lead. Leadership: Essential Selec- tions on Power, Authority, and Bible’s authority, R. Albert Mohler Jr. is president of In!uence unavoidably practical. Southern Seminary. Barbara Kellerman
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CHRISTIAN VOICES FROM PAST AND PRESENT
The first aspect is that I am a Christian; the sec- “As sinfully and cultur- ond, that I am a leader. I am a Christian for my ally defined, pursuing own sake, whereas I am a LEADER for your greatness looks like this: sake; the fact that I am a Christian is to my own Individuals motivated by advantage, but I am a leader for your advantage. self-interest, self-indul- St. Aurelius Augustine gence, and a false sense of self-suf"ciency pursue “If a rhinoceros were “If you read history you selfish ambition for the to enter this res- will "nd that the Christians purpose of self-glori"ca- taurant now, there who did most for the pres- tion. Contrast that with is no denying he ent world were precisely the pursuit of true great- would have great those who thought most of ness and biblically de"ned: power here. But I the next. It is since Chris- Serving others for the glory should be the first tians have largely ceased of God. This is the genuine to rise and assure to think of the other world expression of HUMILITY; him that he had that they have become this is true greatness as no AUTHORI T Y. ” so ineffective in this.” the Savior defined it.” G.K Chesterton C.S. Lewis C.J. Mahaney
“Without ambition, nothing happens. “Jesus everywhere notes that he is Churches don’t get planted, the lost freely offering his life in OBEDIENCE aren’t reached, the church has no impact. to the Father’s mission. Moreover, Jesus And beyond the church, businesses in his love for the church refuses to don’t start, social problems go unad- submit to the foundation stones of dressed and exploration doesn’t happen. his church, when they demand that Without ambition people become lazy. he will never be delivered over to the If you undermine AMBITION, you Romans. Instead, he sets his face like rob people of their desire and will to flint toward Jerusalem. That is ser- do something great with their lives” vant leadership, and that is headship.” Dave Harvey Russell D. Moore
SBTS.EDU 35 Life as a Shepherd Leader __
By Michael S. Wilder and Timothy Paul Jones
couple of years ago, skills – though, frankly, he could have being fattened in pens (Amos 4:1; an individual who used that too. What he needed was to 6:4); either way, their tending did not thought he might understand the difference between require their keepers to live among be called to pastoral cattle and sheep. them. Sheep, on the other hand, need ministry informed me Throughout Scripture, sheep provide a shepherd, and shepherds live among (Jones),A “I love to teach, and I want to a primary metaphor for God’s people their sheep. When the shepherd fails preach – but I can’t stand people.” He (1 Kgs 22:17; Ps 77:20) and God him- to guide his sheep, the !ock becomes went on to describe his dream posi- self is the great shepherd (Gen 49:24; fragmented and vulnerable (1 Kgs tion: to provide a polished exposition Ps 23:1). Yet the imagery doesn’t end 22:17; 2 Chr 18:16; Zech 10:2). of Scripture every Sunday morning, to there. Divinely designated leaders are The young man who declared he decide the church’s vision and direc- seen as shepherds too (Num 27:15- wanted to be a pastor but didn’t want tion, but never to deal directly with 18; 2 Sam 5:2). In the New Testament, to deal with people was contradicting the people in the congregation. It was “shepherds” (or “pastors”) becomes a himself. You can’t be a shepherd with- a pleasant-sounding dream with one term to describe the church’s God- out living among the sheep. fatal !aw: no such position exists in ordained overseers (Eph 4:11). The struggle to live as a shepherd is the very Scriptures that he claimed So what does all this have to do with not new, of course. Leaders who failed he wanted to proclaim. differentiating cattle and sheep? to care for their !ocks were, in fact, What this young man needed wasn’t Cattle might meander among the part of the problem that the prophet merely an improvement in his people oaks of Bashan or "nd themselves Ezekiel saw in the sixth century B.C.
36 SOUTHERN SEMINARY | FALL 2011 tending the !ock of a higher lord, the kings were responsible to live among their subjects, to guide them and to guard them for God’s glory. But the kings of Israel and Judah failed. In the decades after David, they began to treat God’s people as their own property. According to Eze- kiel, they failed to feed God’s !ock (Ezek 34:2). Instead of serving among the people of God’s !ock, these kings “ruled them” with “force and harsh- ness” like Pharaoh in the days of Moses (Ezek 34:4; cf. Exod 1:13-14). The pro- tectors became predators. The people became like sheep without a shepherd, scattered and slaughtered for the sake of their rulers (34:3, 6). Fixing this failure would require something far more radical than a tweak in the shepherding habits of human kings. The sole solution would be the arrival of God himself. The Lord of the !ock would live among his peo- ple as their shepherd (Ezek 34:12). God himself would show up to seek out his scattered sheep, to separate the sleek from the weak and to "ll the feed-troughs of the oppressors with judgment (34:11, 16-22). Once again, it would be clear that these people were the property of God alone. God did not, however, give up on when he looked at the rulers of Israel. working through the offspring of Eve. Ezekiel’s inspired pronouncement He predicted through Ezekiel that he did not point his people toward some CATTLE HERDERS would raise up a human ruler as well: new leadership technique; instead, are not required to one like David, who would live not as the prophet pointed them toward the live among their herd. a sovereign but as a servant, a prince, sacri"cial life of a leader yet to come. and an under-shepherd (34:23-24). This ruler would also live “among” his !ock, Shepherds or sovereigns? and God himself would remain “with EVEN IN THE NATIONS THAT them” forever (34:24, 28-30). surrounded Israel, “shepherd” func- SHEPHERDS All of this was partly ful"lled in the tioned as a metaphor for rulers and need to live among post-exile period – but only partly. On gods – but Israel’s kings were called to their sheep or else this side of the cross and empty tomb, shepherd God’s people in a very differ- the sheep become it’s clear that Jesus provided the ulti- ent way. The kings of Israel were never fragmented, in mate ful"llment of both predictions. to present themselves as royal own- constant need of As God en!eshed, he was the rightful ers of the !ock. God alone was the guidance. Lord and King of his people. Yet he will- Lord of Israel, and the people were ingly became not only the servant and his property. The kings were under- the shepherd but also the sacri"cial shepherds. Like shepherds in the "eld lamb. The shepherd was stricken by
SBTS.EDU 37 God for sins that were not his own and feed his sheep, the resurrected Jesus then rose to life to gather his own from also called Peter to follow him to the every nation (Zech 13:9; Matt 26:31-32; point of death (John 21:18-19). 28:19; John 10:14-18; Rev 7:9-17). The difficulty is that there are As he gathers his own, Jesus the pastors who choose to live as self- exalted Shepherd King has chosen centered shepherds, much like the once again to work through human rulers described in Ezekiel. But there shepherds. In the Gospels, the apostles “Pastoral leadership is another category of shepherds in the began as sheep (Matt 10:16) but wound church – those who are !ock-centered. up as shepherds (John 21:15-18) who is rooted in the This descriptor sounds positive, but it then recognized other God-appointed responsibility of too falls short of authentic imitation men as shepherds of this !ock (Eph of the Chief Shepherd. These leaders 4:11; 1 Pet 5:1-2). Yet, now as in the living as an under- encourage their sheep and may even days of Ezekiel, God himself remains shepherd with eyes know their sheep, but they are marked the Chief Shepherd, the true owner of by a desire to keep the !ock happy and the sheep (Heb 13:20; 1 Pet 2:25; 5:4). fixed on the Chief satis"ed. They keep peace in the fold Pastors are not lords of the sheep but Shepherd.” at any price. This well intended desire servants of the King, called to imitate can lead to unwillingness to deal with the chief Shepherd. sin or false teachings. The result is con- serve Christ by being a servant who tentment to gather with the 99 – and to Imitating the Chief Shepherd feeds the !ock. It was through feeding gather more “99s”— without seeking or SO WHAT DOES ALL OF THIS MEAN God’s people he was to demonstrate correcting the one who wanders (Ezek for pastoral leaders in the church of authentic love for the Chief Shepherd. 34:4-5, 8; Matt 18:12-14). This approach Jesus Christ? Pastoral leadership is rooted in the to shepherding ultimately produces 1. Shepherd leadership calls for feeding responsibility of living as an under- weakened churches and a diminished the !ock. The primary responsibility shepherd with eyes "xed on the Chief display of God’s holiness and glory. of the shepherd is to provide nour- Shepherd. True compassion for people Leaders who understand their role ishment for the !ock (Ezek 34:2). So and love for God compels the pastoral as shepherds do not peer down at their it is in church life, the pastor must leader to make Christ known through people from a holy hayloft and drop an consider that his leadership is most the teaching of God’s Word. occasional bale of sustenance in the strikingly demonstrated through his 2. Shepherd leadership calls for guarding form of a "nely crafted homily. Neither teaching and preaching ministry. The the !ock. In God’s rebuke against Israel’s do they allow their !ocks to live in false Chief Shepherd was known as one who leaders, he indicted them as preda- peace. Shepherd leaders live among taught with great authority (John 1:29; tors rather than protectors. The rulers their people and pay “careful attention Matt 7:28-29). Remember when Jesus of Israel were devouring the !ock for ... to all the !ock” (Acts 20:28). They see invited his disciples to retreat to a their own gain so that God’s sheep themselves neither as sovereigns over deserted place? When they arrived, the were scattered and became “food for their churches nor as hirelings of their spot was no longer deserted because all the wild beasts” (Ezek 34:3, 5, 8). churches but as under-shepherds of the people had anticipated where Jesus God, who who would reverse the evils the living God. might be headed. Compassion welled of the leaders, declared that he would ___ up within Jesus when he saw the rescue his sheep and give them rest Adapted and abridged from the forthcom- people because “they were like sheep so that they would no longer be prey ing The God Who Goes Before You: A without a shepherd.” His immediate (Ezek 34:12, 14, 15, 22). A mark of divine Biblical Theology of Leadership, by response is telling: “he began to teach leadership is protection. So it is with Michael S. Wilder and Timothy Paul Jones them many things” (Mark 6:34). shepherd leaders in Christ’s church. (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2012). Later, along the shores of Galilee, 3. Shepherd leadership leads to sacri"- Wilder and Jones serve as associate pro- Jesus prepared breakfast for the disci- cial service among the people. Jesus, the fessors of leadership and church ministry ples. This post-resurrection appearance model shepherd, makes this clear in his at Southern Seminary. concluded with Jesus asking Simon words to the Pharisees: “the good shep- ___ Peter three times, “Do you love me?” herd lays down his life for the sheep” Interested in biblically grounded The response to Peter’s af"rmations (John 10:11). This is exactly what Christ doctoral-level training in of love were “Feed my lambs. ... Tend did on our behalf through his "nished servant leadership? Take a my sheep. ... Feed my sheep.” Peter was work on the cross. It is no wonder then look at the new Southern reminded that he had been called to that, immediately after calling Peter to Seminary Ed.D. degree.
38 SOUTHERN SEMINARY | FALL 2011 SBTS.EDU 39 and one implication of the imago Dei is an expectation to be intentionally engaged in creating. That means taking the raw materials from the world around us as well as the ideas in our head and creat- ing stuff. It also means taking the broken and unformed things of our fallen world and animating them for the glory of God. Creation, however, is not a one-time thing. Things created by humans often have to be improved or re-created as new needs, challenges and opportuni- ties emerge. And that’s where innovation is needed. The term innovation comes from the Latin word innovare that means “to renew or change.” Innovation is about creating or substantially improving objects, ideas or processes. Peter Drucker, renowned expert on leadership, observed that innovation grows out of changes in markets, tech- nologies and demographics among other contexts. As changes occur, leaders have both the opportunity and the responsibil- ity to innovate in order to serve well the cause they are guiding. From this perspective, you can see how Christian leaders such as the apostle Paul, Martin Luther, Jonathan Edwards, William Tyndale, Charles Spurgeon, C.S. Lewis and more were not only faithful in their lead- ership, but also innovative as they faced changes in culture, markets, technologies and demographics in their day. So, how are you doing as a creator and as an innovator? How are you responding to the changes confronting your leader- Leadership: ship calling? In whatever capacity God calls you to lead (however large or small), you will Innovate or Stagnate have a responsibility to innovate. Lead- by Dan Dumas ers who fail to innovate don’t just miss opportunities to move forward, they are vulnerable to losing ground, to growing stagnant and ineffective. ecently I was asked how I In light of this stewardship respon- was doing as a “creator.” I’ve sibility you bear, the next question is been asked similar ques- critical. How can you become an effec- tions before, but this time tive innovator as you strive to be a fully it startled me because it engaged, kingdom-focused leader? In the Rwas tethered to Genesis 1:26 and what churches and Christian institutions where it means to be made in the image of God. I’ve served, I’ve observed seven commit- As spiritual beings, our creativity comes ments common to innovative leaders that from being fashioned in the image of God I would commend to you:
40 SOUTHERN SEMINARY | FALL 2011 Seven ways to excel as an innovative leader: Raising an innovator
1. Carve out intentional time to exploit your creativity. Haste is the silent killer of Early innovators make for creativity. Being a strategic and innovative leader requires solitude coupled with a the strongest leaders. If serious work ethic. You need to "nd a place to be intensely creative while the noise you’re a parent, you can of life is muted. I recommend carving out a minimum of one hour each day, one create a culture of innova- day each month and one weekend each year. Get out of your normal setting and tion in your home prior to off to a place that gets your creative juices !owing. A familiar routine of dedicated your children’s ever getting creative time, passionate devotion, and a clear mind are all prerequisites for inno- to the marketplace or min- vative leaders. Remember that if you don’t control your schedule, someone else will. istry. Take the raw material around you and foster cre- 2. Be half-crazy 100 percent of the time. Most leaders have to make a conscious ative disciplines. choice either to blaze the trail or resign themselves to simply chasing the innovations of others. The personal reward for being creative far outweighs constant adoption H!"! #"! $%"!! &#'( and editing of other people’s ideas. Leaders by nature are not followers – they lead. ')* +#, ($#"$ !#"-': The best innovators are incessantly thinking about being game changers in their genre. They ask a thousand crazy questions and "nd answers that surprise people. Allow your children to be adventurous and take risks. 3. Think big thoughts. Small thoughts are rarely found in the mind of an innova- Over-protective parents tive leader. As a discipline you should think big. “Ideas, both when they are right sti!e children’s creativity and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood,” says without realizing it. Small John Maynard Keynes. “Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.” wins build con"dence. (I’ve found The Dangerous Book for 4. Disrupt benevolently. With the recent resignation of Steve Jobs from Apple came Boys to be a good primer for an onslaught of reminders about his brilliant ability to disrupt markets. “Jobs gave cultivating adventure and people products they didn’t know they wanted,” wrote Nick Schulz of the Ameri- risk taking with my boys.) can Enterprise Institute, “and then made those products indispensable to their lives.” Nobody embodied disruptive technology better than the imitable Steve Jobs, Encourage ceaseless curios- but Christian leaders are called to be even more disruptive than Jobs. We follow ity. Teach them to "gure out Jesus – a man who disrupted history, traditions, institutions and human nature in stuff. Give them a challenge a benevolent way as he came from heaven to redeem the world. Consider where that is beyond their age and your leadership might require “benevolent disruption” – intentional upsetting of beyond what’s printed on a the status quo in order to proclaim faithfully the good news of Christ’s disruptive box. kingdom inaguration in our world. Appreciate the tenacity of 5. Consider the Scriptures. As a Christian leader, your creativity and ability to inno- a “wild child,” knowing that vate has to be Scripture-soaked. The word of God provides the necessary guardrails to this is the necessary material avoid a brilliant idea that is outside of orthodoxy or just plain foolish. I’m con"dent to be a future game-changer. the Tower of Babel seemed like a brilliant idea at the time! You can’t let big ideas An unrelenting child is drive you beyond Scripture. Don’t fall in love with your ideas; fall in love with Christ. not a nuisance; he or she, if trained, will be a future 6. Surround yourself with capable leadership. Innovative leaders need brutally hon- leader. Take the raw material est people in their lives who are not afraid to challenge their ideas for the sake of and point them toward pro- validity and not because of competition. Since we all have blind spots and often ductivity and creativity. miss the whole for the parts, it is crucial to have a team of candid and competent, ___ transformational architects shaping your leadership. Dan Dumas is senior vice president for institutional 7. Possess unrelenting tenacity. Innovation has to be matched with tenacity to over- administration at South- come small and unwilling thinking. “We’ve never done that before.” “We tried that ern Seminary. He is a church in the past.” “What will people think?” “It can’t be done,” and the list goes on and planter and pastor-teacher at on. Pushing beyond the nay-sayers is often a daunting challenge. Innovative lead- Eastside Community Church in ers make things happen and push through the "rst “no.” If you’re going to overcome Louisville, Ky. your critics, you have to undergird your innovation with unrelenting tenacity.
SBTS.EDU 41 1938 and his doctor of philosophy in Old Testament in 1942. Through most of his Life and Legacy: student years he served also as a pastor.
Pastor A Biography of IN 1940, MCCALL ACCEPTED THE CALL of Louisville’s prestigious Broadway Baptist Church, his third pastorate. Many members were quite wealthy Duke K. McCall and some arrived in chauffeur-driven By Gregory A. Wills limousines. The church neverthe- less was in "nancial trouble. He was young, only 25 years old, yet he had remarkable pastoral vision and was McCall and the seminary determined that he would lead the have a long history congregation forward. Offerings were hen Duke K. weak and money was tight, but McCall McCall, the sev- insisted that they needed to repaint the enth president sanctuary walls, which appeared faded ofW The Southern Baptist Theological and dirty. A group of deacons paid him Seminary, became president in 1951 a visit to explain why it would bank- at the age of 36, he already had a rupt the church if he persuaded the remarkable record of denominational members to vote in favor of the project. leadership. By the time he retired in McCall replied: “Gentlemen, you know 1982, he had become the longest serv- this old church is dead, and I know ing president in the history of Southern it’s dead. I think we ought to clean Seminary. Throughout his extraordi- it up so we will have a decent place nary career his purpose was to serve 1951 Duke K. McCall beginning h! for the funeral.” As his words sank in, presidency of Southern Seminary faithfully the people of God as they fol- they began to see the matter differ- lowed Christ in advancing his kingdom. ently. And they began to see McCall’s heart. The next Sunday those deacons Compelled and called raised the money needed to pay for SHORTLY AFTER MCCALL GRADUATED the repainting. Members responded from Furman University in 1935, he to McCall’s preaching and leader- entered the of"ce of Southern Semi- ship, attendance rebounded and the nary President John R. Sampey to apply church began to revive. Throughout his for admission. But he had no intention three-year ministry there, McCall led of becoming a minister of the gospel. the church to serve the needs of the His soul was uneasy. Two days before, community and to "nd ways to take 1947 Duke K. McCall at SBC annual he recommitted his life to Christ. But the gospel to the lost there. m"ting. (photo #om Southern Bapt!t he had some questions about the H!torical Library and Archives) Christian faith itself. The faculty of Leader Southern Seminary would help him IN 1943, MCCALL EMBARKED ON one of "nd answers. the most unusual careers in Southern McCall’s fellow students felt that Baptist history. He served as president he was running from a divine call to three different Southern Baptist enti- the ministry of the gospel. They began ties: New Orleans Baptist Theological praying for him. When McCall preached Seminary (1943-1946), the Executive his "rst sermon, a search committee Committee of the Southern Baptist wanted him as their pastor. McCall was Convention (1946-1951) and Southern horri"ed, but began to pray earnestly Seminary (1951-1982). He exercised and was soon convinced that God was denominational leadership for 40 years 1981 Duke K. McCall at SBC annual indeed calling him. across "ve decades of the 20th century. m"ting, immediately following the He received his master of theology in announcement of h! retirement McCall led the institution to improve
42 SOUTHERN SEMINARY | FALL 2011 its curriculum and faculty and to change its name from the Baptist Bible Institute to New Orleans Baptist Theo- logical Seminary. He and local trustees chose a location in the city on which to build a new campus. New Orleans Sem- inary moved forward at a rapid pace. In 1946, McCall accepted election as president of the Executive Committee in part so that he could establish a way for denominational agencies to obtain funds needed for capital expenditures, to lead Southern Baptists to take a daring leap forward in their missionary giving in order to support aggressive advance- ment of missions work around the globe.
Seminary president WHEN MCCALL BECAME PRESIDENT of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1951, con!ict between the faculty and president had been growing for more than a decade. The trustees invested the president with the authority to act decisively, espe- cially in matters of faculty election and dismissal. The faculty, however, did not of historical criticism, including the he profoundly shaped The Southern share the trustees’ point of view and view that God inspired the Bible only Baptist Theological Seminary. He set- some violently opposed it on principle. with regard to its religious teachings. tled the vexing questions of whether The con!ict over presidential author- They concluded that various historical the president had executive author- ity involved the very character and aim teachings of the Bible were incorrect, ity and whether the school would be of the seminary. Many of the faculty including many of its miracle accounts. controlled by the faculty or by the held that the seminary should aspire The seminary was increasingly identi- churches. The seminary’s growing to the values and purposes of univer- "ed with liberal theology. reputation for liberalism, however, sity-af"liated divinity schools. McCall When Paige Patterson and Paul resulted "nally in the churches tak- believed that it should aspire to the Pressler devised a plan to replace ing over the school and replacing the values and purposes that the churches liberal seminary professors with tra- president and the faculty in the 1990s. of the Southern Baptist Convention ditionalists, Southern Seminary’s Throughout his career, McCall assigned it. reputation for liberalism gave the sought to follow Christian princi- In 1958, half of the faculty of the cause credibility. ples derived from the Scriptures. School of Theology rebelled. Thir- McCall opposed them. He acknowl- These principles sometimes led him teen professors signed a document edged the right of the convention to into con!ict with conservatives, and expressing their deep and abiding dis- control the seminary – a principle sometimes led him into con!ict with satisfaction with McCall’s leadership. that he long sustained. He disagreed liberals and moderates. Through it all After a series of arduous and painful that belief in inerrancy should be a he remained committed to serving meetings, the trustees decided to dis- condition of service. The majority God’s people, con"dent that God was miss the 13 professors. of Southern Baptists ultimately fol- accomplishing his purposes in Christ lowed Patterson and Pressler rather Jesus through his church. Denominational change than McCall. ___ SINCE THE 1940S, THE FACULTY grew Gregory A. Wills is professor church history increasingly liberal in its theology while Legacy and vice president for research and assess- the churches remained stalwartly MCCALL MADE DEEP AND VARIED ment at Southern Seminary. He is also the committed to traditional orthodoxy. contributions to Baptist life through- director of the Center for the Study of the The faculty accepted the premises out his remarkable career. Above all Southern Baptist Convention.
SBTS.EDU 43 the ministry complexities and gospel The calculation of opportunities we see in 2011, so we cannot see what the next century and a half may hold. What course of theological training leadership should we anticipate throughout the 21st century? We look to the future and see only dimly. Whether the next century and a half "nds a handful of students gathered in hidden quarters enduring unthinkable persecution or thousands upon thousands of students graduated and engaging in public ministries time will tell. Ultimately, the answers to such questions are posi- tioned within the purposes of God, but if the Lord tarries, the need for serious and confessional theological training that will not diminish. Our principle stewardship is a present one – to equip this generation of kingdom servants for most effective leadership in the church. The statistical trends in Western Christianity appear to forecast a season of winter, a time of cultural decay and theological compromise. Yet, South- ern Seminary is committed to bucking this trend and challenging the prevailing wis- dom of this age. Our students expect such training, the church needs such training In 1859 a handful of students gathered “Boyce could not and our gospel stewardship demands we in the small quarters of a Greenville, S.C., give such training. have foreseen the classroom as James P. Boyce initiated Southern Seminary’s impact on eter- formal theological education for Baptists kingdom impact nity throughout her storied history is in the South. Boyce recognized the need Southern Seminary impossible to rightly estimate, but we of his !edgling denomination and led are behooved to ponder all that God has would have in the Baptist churches throughout the South to entrusted to us and all that he can accom- meet that need. Under Boyce’s leadership, generations after his plish through our faithfulness to him. One Southern Seminary was established and passing. He could small way that each of us can help equip became the !agship seminary of the leaders for the church in this generation is not have quanti"ed Southern Baptist Convention. During the to make a sacri"cial gift. The need is great ensuing 152 years, Southern Seminary the global gospel and I ask you to stand with us. graduated thousands of gospel ministers reach Southern Thank you for your friendship and who have served many thousands partnership in this great gospel work at Seminary would of congregations, introduced untold Southern Seminary. May the grace and numbers to Christ and started countless come to know.” mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you national and international churches. in abundance. The math is too tremendous to calcu- late. Boyce could not have foreseen the kingdom impact Southern Seminary would have in the generations after his Sincerely, passing. He could not have quanti"ed the R. Albert Mohler Jr. global gospel reach Southern Seminary would come to know. Indeed, Boyce’s full leadership impact will only be known in the courts of heaven. Just as Boyce could not have imagined
44 SOUTHERN SEMINARY | SPRINFALL 2011G 2011 Evelyn and Glynn Clark By Emily Gri!n
ears of attendance and ser- vice within Southern Baptist churches made Evelyn and Glynn Clark familiar with Southern Seminary, but it was a good friend who encouraged them take a closer look at Southern’s mission. Hortense Downard, a long time Southern Seminary supporter and member of the Foundation Board, introduced her friends, the Clarks, to the seminary and encouraged them to pray about "nancially supporting the institution. Downard recommended Glynn’s appointment to the Founda- tion Board, which began the Clark’s history of giving and service to South- ern. Glynn served on the Foundation Board from 1990 to 1995 and the cou- University of Texas and spent his pro- Christ-centered education. They con- ple’s "nancial support continues today. fessional career with the Marathon Oil tinue supporting Carson-Newman “We met some very interesting peo- Company, where he climbed the exec- and in the past they have supported ple while we were involved with the utive ladder ultimately becoming vice Belmont University, where Glynn pre- Foundation Board,” Glynn said. “We president of research. viously served on the board of trustees. were able to attend several meetings Marathon Oil transferred the Clarks “We’ve always tried to support in Florida, and that was enjoyable.” to Texas, Louisiana, Ohio, Colorado and Southern Baptist colleges and univer- The Clarks have held a fondness for Oklahoma. In every location they lived sities; we like for our money to go in Southern Baptist institutions throughout they made investing themselves in the that direction,” said the Clarks. their marriage. The couple met during local church a priority, Glynn often Southern Seminary covets the World War II, just after Evelyn graduated serving as a deacon. prayers of her students, alumni, faculty from Carson-Newman, a Southern Bap- The couple settled in Nashville, Eve- and supporters. Likewise, the seminary tist college located in Jefferson City, Tenn. lyn Clark’s hometown, for retirement. bene"ts greatly and is encouraged by The military stationed Glynn, a ser- They are members of the First Baptist those individuals who tell others, their geant, in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where he Church of Nashville, where they are friends and family about the semi- worked on the Manhattan Project, the active in Sunday School and Wednes- nary’s legacy of kingdom service. research and development program day evening prayer meetings. Individuals, like Hortense Down- that produced the "rst atomic bomb. “We’re 88- and 89-years-old, so we’re ard, ensure the legacy of Southern After graduation, Evelyn Clark found not too involved anymore,” Evelyn said, reaches future generations through employment in the Oak Ridge military “But Glynn served as a deacon in most sharing with others the mission of plant where Glynn worked. of the churches we’ve been members of.” Southern Seminary and boldly ask- Glynn earned a master’s degree Through the years the Clarks have ing others to join them in prayer and in petroleum engineering from the maintained their appreciation for "nancial support.
SBTS.EDU 45 sufferings to his disciples a third time The Last Shall Be First: and after receiving a repeated petition by James and John to occupy a position of Jesus, Servant-Leadership and authority at his right hand, Jesus rebukes these two with kingdom realities about the Way of the Kingdom leadership. Jesus says, “Whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant; and whoever wishes to be "rst among you shall be slave of all.” Jesus’ prescribed model of leadership is counter-intuitive indeed. Jesus presents an inverted correlation in the kingdom between leadership and servanthood. In Jesus’ kingdom he who would be "rst shall be last. The path to exaltation is humili- ation. To lead is to serve and to serve is to lead. Most poignantly of all, Jesus summa- rizes his own ministry ambition stating, “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many.” Mystery of all mys- teries, the king of the cosmos humbled himself to death – death on a cross – in order to ransom a people for his own glory. A greater act of sacri"ce and service the world has not known. Servant-leadership may sound cliché to some, but in the New Testament, and we “Not only did “The history of the world is but the pray at Southern Seminary, it is a model biography of great men,” argued Thomas Jesus exhibit for faithful Christian ministry. Those who Carlyle, the proponent of what has would most faithfully serve Jesus must divine leadership, come to be known as the “great man couple aspirations for kingdom impact but he also theory of history.” The great man theory with the attitude of sel!ess service Jesus suggests that the broader movements instructed his conveyed in Mark 10. and contours of history all go back to Thomas Carlyle was right. Individuals disciples in the the leadership of great individuals whose under the providence of God do in!uence same. ...” lives exerted inordinate in!uence on history, and at Southern Seminary God is their times. equipping a generation of servant-leaders If Carlyle is right that the stature of eager to impact history for Jesus’ sake. May one’s leadership is proportionate to the God be pleased to "nd in us a generation impact one’s life has made on history, of servant-leaders faithful to change the then Jesus Christ is the greatest leader world with the message that Jesus “came the world has ever known. Not only did not be served but to serve and give his life Jesus exhibit divine leadership, but he also a ransom for many.” instructed his disciples in the same. In Mark 10:32-45 Jesus confronts his overly ambitious disciples, James and John, with a counter-intuitive picture of Jason K. Allen, leadership. And Jesus, as he often does, Vice President for turns much of the "rst century, and 21st Institutional Advancement century conventional wisdom about lead- ership on its head. After revealing his soon-coming
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