Donald E. Cook was Professor of New Testament. The service begins with organ music (00:00-05:39). President Randall Lolley gives a word of prayer (05:40-07:50). The audience is led in the first song of worship, and the choir sings the second song of worship (07:51-13:27). Lolley welcomes the guests and new students (13:28-14:30). Dean Morris Ashcraft presents the Middler Award in Systematic Theology to second year student Philip B. Belcher (14:31-16:29). Lolley reads the list of visiting and adjunctive faculty, and Donald E. Cook is introduced as the Convocation speaker (16:30-18:36). Cook’s presents a paper called “Jesus Call of his Discipleship: A Marcan View,” and he says the centrality of being a disciple of Jesus Christ is for one to take up their cross and follow him (18:37-42:37). The audience is led in a song of worship (42:38-46:51). The service ends with a benediction (46:52-47:23).
