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560															<td><strong><small></small>1<small>GOAL</small></strong></td>
561								<th scope="row" colspan="2">To train ministers of the gospel to proclaim the name of Christ all over the world</th>
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641								&ldquo;The Lord used my time at SBTS as a divinity and doctoral student to shape my thinking and my life in preparation for ministry in the local church and now in a missions organization that exists to serve the local church. The impact of my years on Southern&#8217;s campus upon my character, ministry, and walk with the Lord could not be overstated, nor could my gratitude for those years.&rdquo;
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645									Paul Chitwood																			<br />
646										<em>President, International Mission Board</em>
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658								&ldquo;This is the best place in the world you can be to prepare yourself for God&#8217;s calling on your life.&rdquo;
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662									H.B. Charles																			<br />
663										<em>Pastor-Teacher at the Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church</em>
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675								&ldquo;My time at Southern was deeply formative in preparing me for future ministry both as a mom and ministry leader in the church. It prepared me to study the text for myself and gave me the tools I needed to teach the Bible in whatever context God provided for me. I&#8217;ve been able to use my training at Southern around the dinner table in answering hard Bible questions from my boys. I&#8217;ve also been able to use the research strategies I learned in my classes to write books and resources for the broader church. Not an ounce of it was wasted. I&#8217;m forever grateful for my time here!&rdquo;
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679									Courtney Reissig																			<br />
680										<em>Author and Speaker</em>
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689								In their own words
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692								&ldquo;My time at Southern Seminary was formative when it comes to my ministry in the local church. Southern gave me a set of tools that helped me study and teach the Bible, and Southern gave me a set of relationships that continue to guide me as I pursue my God-given responsibilities.&rdquo;
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696									Jimmy Scroggins																			<br />
697										<em>Lead Pastor, Family Church </em>
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702													<div class="image"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://cf.sbts.edu/sbts2023/uploads/2023/10/Testimonial-Photos-13.jpg" alt="Zach Carter teaching" width="720" height="720" /></div>
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706								In their own words
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709								&ldquo;The faculty of Southern gave my wife  and I one of the greatest, joy-filled, and edifying experiences of our lives. We were certainly prepared by the faculty at Southern for the challenges and great joys of ministry. But, honestly, our memories focus on how the faculty modeled lives lived in light of the gospel. We loved our professors, and they loved us too.&rdquo;
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713									Zach Carter																			<br />
714										<em>Pastor, Redeemer Church Huntsville</em>
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770						<p>Under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, the mission of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is to be totally committed to the Bible as the Word of God, to the Great Commission as our mandate, and to be a servant of the churches of the Southern Baptist Convention by training, educating, and preparing ministers of the gospel for more faithful service.</p>
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Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.