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Interview with Dr. Danny Akin, Links to Resources
Posted by Robin Foster | November 14, 2007
One of our aims at SBC Today is to be a resource for pastors, and this post is perhaps one of the best we’ve yet had at accomplishing that goal.
Monday, Wes Kenney and I had the opportunity to sit down with President Danny Akin of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. After the interview, Dr. Akin told us about his website, dannyakin.com, which is packed full of free resources, from sermon audio to complete publications. It is an outstanding source for pastors and anyone else interested in studying the Bible with the help of one of the leading theologians of our day.
During the interview, we talked about a variety of topics, from confessions of faith to expository preaching to the emerging church. Recently Dr. Akin led Southeastern in sponsoring a conference that focused on the emerging church. One of the main speakers was Mark Driscoll from Mars Hill Church in Seattle. Dr. Akin had the opportunity to talk about why he helped in sponsoring the conference and he gave some of his thoughts on Mark Driscoll and the ministry Driscoll has in Seattle.
Thanks to Micah Fries (pronounced “freeze”) for his blog that led me to a great site, sponsored by Driscoll’s Mars Hill Church in Seattle, for helping pastors, laypeople, and students with their New Testament Greek. Re: Greek is a site that will be a major help in studying your Greek Bible, especially for all you seminary students who don’t have major bucks to drop on a Greek parsing program. That’s because Re:Greek gives you the parsing. Of course, to keep us out of hot water with our former Greek professors, we add the disclaimer that all New Testament Greek students should strive to memorize and apply all those parsing charts and use programs like this only as a back up. I would like to thank those who put this program together.
The audio from the interview is available below. Enjoy the Greek tool, Dr. Akin’s resources, and the interview.
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November 14th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Another excellent interview! Thank you for posting these guys, this is encouraging and useful material.
You have good godly men in leadership of your institutions who are an example to the church throughout the world.
I deeply appreciate their fidelity to the Lord and His Word, and their fidelity to making the gospel known to the lost.
Keep it up.
Steve
November 14th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Steve
Allow me to state that with both men I was truly impressed. What I was even more impressed about was their willingness to sit down with Wes, Scott, and me in spite of their busy schedules. Dr. Mohler and Dr. Akin are men of grace. You are right, we are blessed to have them as leaders in our convention.
November 14th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
This was a great interview. I am very much more hopeful about the Building Bridges Conference after listening to it. I pray everyone has Dr. Akin’s humility, and openness to those who differ somewhat theologically. And he’s just flat honest in his assessments in this interview.
November 15th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Brother Robin,
You and Brother Wes did good. :>)
Seriously, this was an excellent interview. You did not fade from asking the hard questions. Dr. Akin did not back up from answering in his stand on why he issued invitations to do the conferences he is doing.
Blessings,
Tim