By Jaci Schneider, Copy Editor
The Chapel Office will offer at least four forums for students to attend this semester to earn Chapel credits.
The first Chapel forum will be Feb. 14 and will be about the documentary Invisible Children. Dan McVeigh, missions coordinator, will lead the forum and will bring in guest speakers.
The second forum is scheduled for March 7 and will be about making healthy choices, especially about drinking, said Shane Hughes, Chapel coordinator. This forum was supposed to take place last semester, but the guest speaker couldn’t make it because of bad weather.
Chapel in Moody Coliseum will deal with the “Gravity of Grace” and will have an international feel to it because several of the speakers will come from countries around the world, Hughes said.
“I chose Romans because it has been a center of Christian New Testament theology for 2,000 years,” Hughes said, “and it’s important for us to focus on that.”
The Chapel speakers on Mondays and Tuesdays will speak on the theme, while Wednesday speakers will be people from the Abilene community and the Christian community.
“‘The Gravity of Grace’ has two sides of it,” Hughes said. “The weight of it and gravitas – since God has done this for us, what do we do?”
Guest speakers from Australia, the United Kingdom and China will be among the Wednesday speakers.
“These are people whose work exemplifies the gravitas of grace,” Hughes said. “This semester will have some very powerful speakers who want to affect students’ lives.”
On Thursdays, students can attend Chapel 1838 in Moody Coliseum or one of 40 Small Group Chapels or 32 Spring Break Campaign Chapels.
The Spiritual Life Core sponsors the 1838 Chapels and will follow the same format as last semester, said Mark Lewis, adviser of the core.
“We are addressing several topics based on student input,” Lewis said.
This Thursday’s topic will be holiness and purity; speakers will address identity, self-image, pornography, lust and sex outside of marriage, all in the context of what God says and why it matters.
Future topics on the schedule include dating relationships, happiness, body image and pop culture, and videos will occasionally be used to introduce a topic or illustrate a point.
