Professor Robert Jewett Our school specially invited the famous New Testament scholar Dr. Robert Jewett to be the morning lecturer on April 17, and invited Dr. Zhou Zhaozhen to be the response speaker. Dr. Zhu's message emphasizes that the elimination of distinction between superiority and inferiority is the keynote of Romans. This keynote is particularly relevant to this conflict-ridden era of the twenty-first century. This issue of "Academy News" has translated Dr. Zhu Weite's speech that day to share the information with readers. ...

Wu Guojie, Associate Professor of Christian Thought (Church History) From July 2006 to June 2007, the author published a series of articles in the "Tracing the Origin" series of "Times Forum" to trace the beliefs, doctrines, traditional rituals, and sectarian organizations of today's churches. and various reasons for the Chinese church. What received the most responses during the period was the introduction to the historical roots of each denomination; it showed that Chinese Christians were indeed troubled by the numerous denominations in Hong Kong and wanted to know more about them and clarify their relationship with each other. In order to meet the needs of the Hong Kong church in this regard, and as a publishing house happened to be requesting manuscripts, we decided to conduct in-depth research and write "A Tour of the Ten Major Denominations in Hong Kong" to comprehensively explore the origins and development, belief systems and current situation of the major denominations in Hong Kong. ...

May we start the new school year with prayer and break new ground. This is the first time that the college’s “Whole-School Prayer Meeting” was held in advance on the third day of the new school year. This year we are particularly "rushing forward" in prayer because we are especially eager for all the teachers, students, and co-workers of the school to start the new school year with prayer, praying that the benefactor will personally lead the way forward for the school when "Baptism" is facing changes, and also May the Lord use us, a group of humble and weak people, to work together to open up a new world in this land that will continue to glorify Him. ...

Tong Hon-sun (M.Div. 1) and his wife, Siu-lin, began with a prayer. From October to December 2007, I followed my church's Bible reading plan and read the books of the Minor Prophets, using them as a devotional. Under the theme of "God's Judgment," I encountered a recurring message: God wants to destroy those who refuse to repent and follow Him, but He truly is unwilling to do so. This message inspired me to pray frequently for one thing: that God would raise up more people to proclaim His gospel. ...

Liu Pui-yee (M.Div. 1) "…the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest" (Luke 10:2). "Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?' And I said, 'Here am I! Send me!'" (Isaiah 6:8)...

岑紹麟 新約客座助理教授 Clement Shum Visiting Assistant Professor in New Testament 　　在近期出版的一篇討論希臘化運動的文章中，著名新約學者斯坦頓（Graham Stanton）提到保羅的語文訓練時，作出了這樣的結論：「保羅的第一語言大概是希臘語〔/希臘文？〕，而他在巴勒斯坦受教育時，也學會了流利的亞蘭語和希伯來語。他自出生以來，便受到希臘文化的薰陶，並且對希臘詩歌有一定的認識，能在需要的時候引用當中的話（徒十七28；林前十五33；多一12）。」1...

郭珀培 （R. Alan Culpepper） 美國梅莎大學麥茄菲神學院院長 R. Alan Culpepper Dean of McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University 　　曹院長、各位院董、教授、同工、同學及來賓，本人恭逢香港浸信會神學院新院長就職盛會，並獲邀擔任講員，著實感到榮幸。本人在此謹代表梅莎大學（Mercer...

Yu Tat-sham, President of the China Theological Seminary. As the Chairman of the Hong Kong Theological Education Association, on behalf of my colleagues in the association, I would like to congratulate Professor Cao Wai-tung on his appointment as the sixth president of the Hong Kong Baptist Theological Seminary. I would also like to extend my best wishes to him on behalf of my colleagues at the China Theological Seminary. Warm congratulations, and the school board of directors is very happy to have such a great success. ...

Joshua Cho: It is my honor to stand before you today as the sixth President of Hong Kong Baptist Theological Seminary. It is unworthy of me, but it is God's grace. I thank God for His grace in choosing me, and I thank you for attending this inauguration. I believe you have come together not only to inaugurate the new President, but more importantly, to this seminary with a fifty-eight-year history—to bear witness together, to pray together, to praise together, and to proclaim together the wonders of God's power. ...

On the evening of January 19, our college held the inauguration ceremony of its sixth president, Professor Cao Wei-tung. Approximately 1,200 people attended that night. Guests included pastoral colleagues from Baptist churches and other denominations, friends from the theological and academic circles, and Christian institutions. leaders, members of the Dean’s Senate of our seminary, as well as previous alumni, guests from far and wide, and many members of the community who have always cared about and supported our seminary. ...