Bible, Church Ministries and Missions Archives - 海角原创 /category/bible/ Go. Serve. Lead. Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:10:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Bible, Church Ministries and Missions Archives - 海角原创 /category/bible/ 32 32 Missional Leadership for the Next Generation /advantage/missional-leadership-for-the-next-generation-2/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:08:48 +0000 /?p=141775 Dr. David Anderson (鈥86,鈥22) was named the sixth president of 海角原创 in May of 2023 by the Board of Trustees. The Andersons are not strangers to the campus of 海角原创. Anderson鈥檚 father moved his family to Watertown to receive his theological training prior to going into the pastorate where he served for 42 years. Most recently, David and Abi (Potter) served in Roscoe, Illinois at Heritage Baptist Church. All their adult children graduated from 海角原创. Announcing the appointment, Dr. Doug Jackson, the chairman of the Board of Trustees, said: With unity, confidence, and great enthusiasm, the 海角原创 board of trustees voted unanimously to call Dr. David Anderson to serve as MBU鈥檚 new president. As president, we believe he will successfully carry out our mission, minister effectively to our students and staff, and serve as the public face of our university鈥攖he chief student recruiter and promoter of 海角原创. Introducing himself to the team, Dr. Anderson encouraged the faculty and staff saying; 鈥淚 have been a cheerleader for 海角原创 from Illinois. Now I will be your cheerleader on campus!鈥 The energy that filled the room that day was electric. Following that morning’s meeting, as I was talking with […]

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]]> Explaining Faith to a Believing World /higher-education/explaining-faith-to-a-believing-world/ Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:27:25 +0000 /?p=105890 David Saxon is a professor in the College of Bible and Church Ministries. As the teacher of Baptist Heritage and a number of Bible electives, he enjoys interaction with a significant percentage of the 海角原创 student body. Read his article, originally published in the 2019 Advantage Magazine. American Spirituality A Gallup poll published this year reveals that church attendance in the United States has dropped in the last 20 by about 20%, resulting in the lowest percentage of church attenders since Gallup began collecting data in the 1930s. A natural conclusion might be that faith is failing in America: nearly one in five respondents indicated no connection to organized religion of any kind, a significant increase from any previous poll. Interestingly, though, Pew Research Center published poll results in 2017 that showed that 27% of Americans reported that they are 鈥渟piritual鈥 but unaffiliated with any religion, a substantial increase over previous results. It seems that many Americans are redefining spirituality as a purely personal, existential experience that has no need of religious or ecclesiastical underpinnings. In fact, one wonders if this spirituality even needs God. This trend is evident in the contemporary use of the concept of 鈥渇aith.鈥 Oddly enough, […]

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