Edwin Luther Copeland was Professor of Missions. The service begins with a prayer from 0:00-3:08. Music is played from 3:16-6:54. Dr. Copeland preaches on how Christianity has the best news in the world. Copeland focuses on how Christianity is rooted in history. Copeland closes that the world needs us to preach the message of the gospel. Dr. Copeland speaks from 7:07-22:03.
Thomas Albert Bland, Associate Professor of Christian Sociology and Ethics, talks about family as it relates to the student covenant. This includes one's parental family, their current family, and the seminary family.
The service begins with a reading (00:00-00:53) and a prayer (00:54-05:04). Another short prayer follows by John E. Davis (05:05-05:22). No introduction was given for the speaker, John E. Davis, but he was a student at SEBTS. He outlines two presuppositions of seminary education (05:23-06:02). First, the questions we are raising at SEBTS are but hollow and intellectual gymnastics if they are foreign to the common man’s questions (06:03-13:49). Second, the gospel is a totally consuming dynamic and not a moral philosophy nor a legal code (13:50-23:53). He quotes Philippians 3:12-16 (23:54-24:46), and he ends his time in prayer (24:47-25:24).
Samuel S. Hill, Jr. was the Chairman of the Department of Religion at the University of Carolina Chapel Hill. The service begins with a short story and prayer from 0:00-1:40. An introduction is given from 1:41-4:58. Dr. Hill speaks from 8:09-27:48. His source text was Ephesians 4:4-6, 11-16. Hill preached on the Christian minister and how effectively they should serve their community.
H. Eugene McLeod was the Librarian. The service opens in a word of prayer from 0:00-0:48. An introduction to the speaker is given from 0:58-3:20. Dr. McLeod speaks from 3:30-43:10. McLeod gives a detailed history of the campus library as well as shares the stated purpose and vision of the library.
H. Max Smith was Associate Professor of Music and Artist in Residence. Dr. Binkley opens the service with a word of prayer from 0:00-1:33. An award is handed out from 1:55-4:30. Dr. Binkley welcomes all those in attendance and introduces the speaker from 4:47-7:00. Smith speaks from 7:04-40:11. Dr. Smith’s message is titled “Separation of the Church and the Arts.” Dr. Binkley closes the service in prayer from 40:29-41:31.
Edwin Luther Copeland was Professor of Missions. In this chapel service, Copeland speaks on the irreplaceable value of intellectual courage, open-mindedness, and love when addressing an increasingly relativistic culture.
This service was organized by the Student Coordinating Council. The service begins with an introduction and prayer, followed by scripture reading beginning at 1:10. At 3:39, a speaker gives instructions for a time of meditation. At 4:31, another speaker reads letters of gratitude to the Southeastern community. A brief message begins at 6:43 on the subject of Southeastern as a Christian academic community.
James A. Forbes, Jr. was pastor of Holy Trinity Baptist Church in Wilmington, NC. The chapel begins with a scripture reading from 0:23-0:43. Music plays from 0:50-3:40. An introduction to the speaker is given from 3:53-4:58. Forbes speaks from 5:10-27:08. He teaches on the subject “The Negro and White Communities and their Pastors.”
Dr. Sydnor Lorenzo Stealey, the first President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, says a few words about 1 Corinthians 10:31 and then updates students about upcoming chapel speakers and events and other general announcements.
