Seeing the Invisible Church: Logsdon Seminary Chapel at SCS
God saw Hagar. Nobody else did. Her race, citizenship, socio-economic status and gender acted like a cloaking device to ward off detection by society's radar.
Sarah saw a slave to be exploited for her fertility and punished for her individuality.
Abraham saw an immigrant with rights defined by the whim of those within the community.
Sarah saw an indigent with insufficient resources to stand on her own.
Abraham saw a woman, an acceptable pinch-hitter for the gender’s only purpose.
But God saw Hagar and called her by name. God saw Hagar and offered her hope. In Scripture, the first woman to name God is a slave, homeless, and a foreigner. She names God El-Roi, "God who sees me."
This semester our Colloquium program will challenge God's highly-visible church to see God's often-invisible children, and invite God's invisible children to name for us the God who sees them. We will ask the Lord for what Philip Yancey calls "grace-healed eyes" to help us see people of color, the economically marginalized, immigrants both legal and illegal, and women. We will follow a three-step rhythm. Week 1 will feature a guest speaker who represents the model under consideration. In Week 2, we will hear from one of our own students who will respond to what has been shared. Week 3 will involve small-group discussion times where we will digest what we have ingested in the previous two gatherings.
Tentative Schedule for Spring 2008 Colloquium
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January 24 – President's Chapel
Seeing the Invisible Church: A Theological and Philosophical Foundation
Speaker:
Tony Celelli, President, SCS
First Cycle: Ivisible Places
January 31 – Speaker: Derrick Reaves, Pastor, St. John Baptist Church, (Corpus Christi, Texas)
February 7 – Student Response: Daryl Colvinl
Frebruary 14 – Small Groups
Second Cycle: Invisible Citizens
February 21 – Rosa Pizzi, CEO & Executive Director, Corpus Christi Metro Ministries
Febraury 28 – Student Response: Ryan Pflughaupt, Pastor, The Station (Corpus Christi, Texas)
March 6 – Small Groups
Third Cycle: Invisible Sojourners
March 13 – Suzii Paynter, Director, Christian Life Commission, BGCT
March 27 – Student Response: Cheyenne Solis
April 3 – Small Groups
Fourth Cycle: The Invisible Gender
April 10 – Dorisanne Cooper, Pastor, Lake Shore Baptist Church (Waco, Texas)
April 17 – Student Response: Jena Pair, Campus Missionary, Baptist Student Ministries
April 24 – Small Groups
May 1 – Final Chapel
Justice and the Invisible: A Historical Perspective
Speaker:
Dr. Rick McClatchy, Coordinator, CBF-Texas