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Paschal Bible Lectures
October 9 and 11
The
thirty-seventh-annual William N. Paschal Memorial Bible
Lectures were held October
11, 2007 in the
Dorman Memorial Chapel on the campus of Baptist Missionary Association
Theological Seminary in Jacksonville.
The
speaker was Dr.
Paige Patterson, who is currently
President of Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary. He led two sessions on
“Speech Gifts of
the New Testament.” Lecture sessions will be held at 9:30 a.m.
and 3:00
p.m. on Tuesday and at 9:30 a.m. on
Thursday. Tuesday’s lectures were “The
Intangible World of the Spirit” and “A Football for
My Wife.”
Thursday’s
lecture was “The Tongues of Men and Angels.” Dr. Craig
Blaising, Executive Vice President & Provost at
SWBTS delevered the lecture in Dr. Patterson's place due to an
unforseen situation.
Dr. Patterson’s educational background includes a B.A. degree
from Hardin-Simmons
University,
Th.M, and
Ph.D. degrees in Theology from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He
served as president of Criswell College
for 17 years, and he served 11 years as president of Southeastern
Baptist
Theological Seminary. He is currently in his fourth year serving as
president
of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
He was twice elected president of the Southern Baptist
Convention, serving Southern Baptists in that role from 1998-2000.
During those
years he appointed a committee to revise the Baptist Faith and Message,
the
confession most widely employed by Southern Baptist, and also presided
over the
historic session of the convention in which this revised confession was
adopted.
William N. Paschal, a successful
businessman and pastor, passed away in 1978. In 1984,
Dessarine
(Paschal) McNeill of Waldo, Arkansas,
and
Kathleen (Paschal) Fullenwider of Magnolia, Arkansas,
established an endowment to fund
the William N. Paschal Bible Lectures in honor of their father. Among his grandchildren are the late Dr. Harold McNeill, Jr.,
he was mental health
chaplain at Rusk State Hospital and Professor of Christian Education at
BMA
Seminary and Norita (McNeill) Higgs, whose husband, Grady Higgs, is
Executive
Director of the Department of Missions for the BMA of America, Little
Rock,
Arkansas.
The
public is invited to attend
these lectures.
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