The Bible Lectureship e1ics was hosted at Harding cYery year. An array of different speakers from all over the world and the .S., spoke on different topics relating to faith and living out the word of God. Along with doctors, biblical scholars and preacher , multiple Harding students were selected to speak. The students were nominated by their peers for the position and were e)(pected to prepare a 45-minute speech on a subject of their choo ing. Some of the student speakers from the 20 l6 Lectureship were senior M adison Burks and juniors Locke Adair and Caitlyn Spears. Each student had a unique me sage they felt needed to be shared with anyone who would listen, which contained experiences the tudent had gained from previous summer or pa t mem01ic . Burks spent time at amp Tahkodah the prc,1ous ummcr discovering truth that she wanted to share with everyone present at her pcech. "td y topic wa. 'Li,1ng a Genuine Lifi , " Burk said. "The book [I u cd was] called 'You arc Special,' by Max Lucado. I think the obvious implication of the story is that you find y ur onfidence in God, but I talked a lot about how we should be like Lucia, the girl in the book who is different from everyone else, but he points tl1e glory to 'the maker' or God." Burks was not the only one who used an experience from life to fuel her message. Spears drew from her mother's battle with mu cular dystrophy to speak on the theme of "Beauty in the Broken." "I came up with [my topic] in the summer through different experience that I had and [reflected] on that," Spears said. "[I talked] about how there's different brokenness in the world. It' all ha;d and it's all valuable in God's eye . I was nervous up until fl] started talking, [but] it was really cool to e>..-.perience that - to let the Spirit take over and use me a his ves el." Adair aid he was more used to speaking and already had material in the works before he was nominated to peak at Lecture hip. "[My] topic was "Extraordina1y Claims Require Extraordinary Evidences," whi h i a quote attributed to David Hume, atheist and philo opher, [who worked] to debunk Christianity and the amazing claims that [came] along with that," Adair said. "The gist of it was that our lives need to be the extraordinary proof that there is a God and that we arc all made in Hi image. That image is love - perfect l vc." Although lair wa prepared and had great material, he aid he still had ner\'es before hi pecch. "It was a really neat pp rtunity," Adair said. "It wa ve1y intimidating to take U[ 45 minutes of time, but it' neat to be in [that community] of so many people [ who J have spoken at Lectureship. [It wa ] humbling for someone to recommend me for [that]. I wouldn't ha\'e had that opportunity otherwise." Clll lKII HF.I..\TIO\"> ~ 201
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