 Dr.
John W. Gregson, was the guest speaker at BMA Seminary Chapel
Services on August 29 (9:30am). This was
the first chapel service for the 2006 BMATS fall school year. Dr. Gregson served as president of the BMA
Theological Seminary from 1967-71, School Registrar from 1956-67 and Academic
Dean at Jacksonville
College from
1976-1988. Currently Dr. Gregson is a
prolific writer, historian and guest lecturer.
His writings include numerous volumes of sermons and lessons on all the
books of the New Testament. He has also
written Speaking for Christ and His Church, a history of Baptist Missionary
Association Theological Seminary and A Centennial History of Jacksonville
College, Volumes I and II, as well as a History of the Baptist Missionary
Association of America, 1986-2005. His
most current rendering is entitled Earnestly Contending For The Faith
(Pleasant Word, WinePress Publishing Co., 2006 ) and is a fifty-year history of
the Baptist Missionary Association Theological Seminary.
Immediately
following chapel services (~10:15am), Dr. Gregson was available to discuss
and sign his recently published book Earnestly
Contending FOR THE FAITH at a reception held in The Gregson Fellowship Hall (so named in his honor).
“Earnestly
Contending for the Faith is the biblical principle which has guided the
good men and women at BMATS throughout her history,” stated Dr. Philip Bryan,
B.D., Ph.D., President Emeritus of the Baptist Seminary. He continues, “No living person would be more
competent than Dr. John W. Gregson to research and record this vital
information.”
  
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