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news & features a generation ago now require an academic response in the public sphere, Anderson argued. Anderson is founding editor of Public Discourse and president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. He is author of five books, including When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment and Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom. Anderson identified four creational truths found in nature and the opening chapters of Genesis that Christians must defend to promote a flourishing society. God made humans in his image and likeness. Christians should fight for legal and cultural change to protect the infants while also aiding and supporting women harmed by the abortion industry. God created human beings male and female. Anderson urged that work must be done to recover a sound understanding of the sexual differences. The answer is not the harmful transforming of the body, but a return to God’s good design revealed through the natural law and Scripture. God created males and females for each other. “It’s not that God created two random sexes,” said Anderson. “God created male and female precisely with the design for us to unite as one flesh.” God created us for himself. “We’re not just created in the image of God, but we are made for God,” Anderson said. “Which is simply to say that religion should have a role in our public life. Not only have we secularized our public square, but now we are using the law to punish people who have not gone along with secularization.” union with christ is the christian doctrine of salvation, noted theologian says in annual norton lectures — By Travis Hearne and Jeff Robinson Union with Christ is central to the doctrine of salvation, theologian Fred Sanders told the Southern Seminary community at this year’s Norton Lectures Series, held February 9-10 in Heritage Hall. Sanders gave three lectures on “Union with Christ, Systematically Considered.” Sanders is professor of theology at Biola University and the author of numerous books, including The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything and The Triune God. In the first lecture, Sanders argued that union with Christ is a unifying theme of soteriology, even though it is sometimes underplayed in contemporary theology. “While it makes sense to speak about the Christian doctrine of God or the Christian doctrine of the incarnation,” Sanders said, “it seems somehow less believable in the contemporary world to assert that there is such a thing as one single Christian doctrine of salvation. “It is the powerful, scriptural, and spiritual drive toward union with Christ that gave rise to the creeds.” Being prominently present in the early church councils and in the writings of reformer John Calvin, union with Christ is fundamental to any unified Christian teaching on salvation, he argued. In the other lectures, Sanders examined the doctrine biblically and theologically. Union with Christ is one of the key themes in the apostle Paul’s theology, particularly in Romans 5-6 and in the first two chapters of Ephesians—often summarized concisely in two words: in Christ. But the doctrine is also present in the four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, he said. 52 the southern baptist theological seminary
news & features Southern continues to fulfill its calling, not only as an academically rigorous institution, but as a training ground for those called to take the gospel to the nations. sbts trustees elect faculty and approve annual budget at Spring Meeting — By Jeff Robinson Graham School Dean Paul Akin interviews IMB President Paul Chitwood during Great Commission Week at SBTS. sbts encourages mission-centric work during great commission week — By Travis Hearne Southern Seminary encouraged students, faculty, and staff to get involved in missions both locally and globally during the school’s Great Commission Week April 12–14. Southern filled the week, themed “Send Me!”, with events designed to present options and information for the many students considering full-time missions after graduation. Paul Chitwood, president of the International Mission Board, kicked off the week with a chapel message on the need for the gospel in solving the world’s greatest problem. “Lostness is the world’s greatest problem.” Chitwood said, “We know the solution to the world’s greatest problem, the gospel of Jesus Christ, and we have been called to share it.” Paul Akin, Dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry, interviewed Chitwood in The Bookstore at Southern on the mission of SBTS and the IMB. Southern has proudly partnered with the IMB for 160 years and the seminary is more mission-centric than at any other time, Chitwood said. “Today’s SBTS is more focused on deploying a generation of missionaries to the nations than at any time I’ve witnessed over the past 30 years,” he said. Southern also hosted Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board, for Thursday’s chapel. Ezell called for churches to prioritize sending missionaries in a sermon on Acts 13:1–8. “In the end, success for churches will be determined, not by their seating capacity, but by their sending capacity,” Ezell said. All in all, the week provided resources and guidance to any student called to serve in local, regional, and international missions. The IMB, KBC, and NAMB each offered info fairs and active missionaries from each agency offered testimony and answered questions from prospective missionaries. Great Commission Week is no exception to Southern’s mission, Akin said. It’s just one of the ways In their spring meeting Monday evening, trustees of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary unanimously approved a $50.4 million operating budget for 2022- 2023, as enrollment and finances remain very strong. The new budget represents a $2.3 million increase (4.8 percent) from the budget trustees approved last year. Over the past two budget cycles, Southern’s budget has grown by more than $13 million despite challenges from the recent pandemic. “God continues to bless Southern Seminary and our churches continue to send us the most amazing students,” SBTS President Albert Mohler said. “This is a great era in the history of this seminary and college and we are pressing ahead. Our board of trustees and faculty and staff work together for the best theological education we can provide our students for a lifetime of faithful ministry. We pray to bear this great mission with faithfulness until Jesus comes.” The new budget is just right for the current economic circumstances, seminary leaders said. “We believe this is a conservative budget,” said Jon Austin, senior vice president for institutional summer 2022 53
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