Lectureship... Lectures help to edify fellow Christians n keeping I with Harding's tradition to constantly edify one another in Christ, the 63rd annual Bible lectureship was held as yet another encouragement. This year, the lectureship was given the theme, 'What's Right With the Church:' On October 5-8, students, faculty, guests, and . residents of Searcy gathered together to absorb the rays of euphoria exuberated from speakers who hailed from all over the country. During the days, there were lectures going on in almost every empty room on campus. Many students were allowed to skip classes to hear such speakers as Mike Cope, minister of the College Church of Searcy, and Barby Smith, who along with her husband, served as a campus minister. Audiences who attended these daytime speeches heard lectures on such varied topics as how to handle guilt, the oneness of the church, how to teach teenagers, how a Christian woman serves in the church, instrumental music during worship, and how to effectively study books such as Genesis and John. Open forums were also held for those people who had questions concerning the lectureship, or the church in general. On each night of Lectureship Week, singing rang through the Benson Auditorium. On Sunday, October 5, Dr. Kenneth Davis, Jr. lead congregational singing, while on the following three nights, the Harding Academy Chorus, the Harding Chorale, and the Harding A Cappella Chorus sang a few religious selections. Each night after singing took place, a key-note speaker spoke on various subjects relating to the theme, "What's Right With the Church:' Key-note speakers included Jim Bill Mclnteer, of Nashville, Tennessee, Jeff Walling, El Toro, California, and one of Harding's revered faculty members, Dr. Neale Pryor. Choral cuties. Lisa Thompson, a junior from Marion, Illinois, and June Beeson, a senior from Sherwood, Arkansas, sing a few selections with the rest of the Harding Chorale. The chorale sang before Dr. Neale Pryor's keynote speech during Lectureship Week. - photo by Jerry Traughber. There was also a bit of bad news during Lectureship Week. Landon Saunders, renowned speaker and radio show host, who was scheduled to be a key-note speaker, was unable to attend the lectureship due to health reasons. Saunders was replaced by Jimmy Allen, a Harding Bible professor. Lectureship director Eddie Cloer commented, '1t was our intention in this lectureship to remind us of the beauty and correctness of the restoration plea:' Indeed, the lectureship accomplished this through the classes, congregational singing, choral group performances, and evening lectures that were held. Due to much prayer and supplication, the effects of the lectureship continued to be felt by the pervading sense of optimism that flowed through our lives.• - Heidi Smith Key-note speaker. Jimmy Allen, one of Harding's most revered Bible professors, gives a sermon on the nondenominational Christian faith. Allen also directed a series of daily lectures on the topic of instrumental music in the church. - photo by Brad Watson. Lectureship 35
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