Judson University in Elgin to host worship arts lecture series

The Judson University Worship Arts Department, 1151 N. State St. in Elgin, will hold its semiannual Worship Arts Lecture Series on Monday, Oct. 10.

Gerald Borchert, a senior professor at Carson Newman College in Jefferson City, Tenn., and thesis director at the Robert Webber Institute for Worship Studies, will be the guest of honor for this year’s lecture series.

Borchert will begin with a message during the 10 a.m. chapel service in Herrick Chapel on “Authentic Worship: The Antidote to a Poisonous Faith.” He will then lecture in Mark Torgerson’s Speaking the Faith class at 11 a.m. Borchert will speak at 7 p.m. in the Eagle Lounge on “Selected Insights from the Gospels for Vibrant Worship.”

Borchert is one of the translators of the New Living Translation and has written more than 150 articles and a score of books including commentaries on the Gospel of John, Galatians, Revelation, the Thessalonian letters and “Worship in the New Testament: Divine Mystery and Human Response” in which he surveys the worship aspects in the entire New Testament. A new work on “Jesus of Nazareth: Background, Witnesses and Significance” is due out in October and has already been preselling copies.

The series is open to the public. For information, contact Warren Anderson at wanderson@judsonu.edu.