Orlando Chapel
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The RTS Orlando community corporately worships on Wednesdays from 10:00 - 10:55 a.m. in the Robert B. and Katherine Pamplin Chapel, and everyone is welcome.
This Year's Theme: "Seek the Lord"
This year’s chapel service will focus on nearness to God. Seminary students and graduates alike often describe how difficult it was to maintain and sense of close of communion with God while facing all of the demands of life, school and ministry. This challenge doesn’t disappear after graduation, but is often greater serving in ministry full time.
There is no way to overcome this challenge apart from a resolve to “seek the Lord” through all of the means He has given us.
The fall semester will draw from the deep well of the Psalms as a source of spiritual life. Dietrich Bonhoeffer describes the Psalms as “the great school of prayer.” He also said, "The child learns to speak because the parent speaks to the child. The child learns the language of the parent. So we learn to speak to God because God has spoken and speaks to us. In the language of the Father in heaven God’s children learn to speak with God. Repeating God’s own words, we begin to pray to God."
A full Christian life and a full Christian ministry are unimaginable apart from a deep knowledge of the Psalms and the learned practice of praying them. Praying the Psalms has great benefit for personal, family and corporate worship – a single spiritual discipline with multiple levels of benefit and use in life and ministry. In the fall chapel we will pray the Psalms corporately, individually and musically as well as hear the Gospel proclaimed through them.
The spring semester will focus upon loving God with all our being by exploring and practicing what Jesus called “the greatest commandment.” As we grow in our understanding and practice of Deuteronomy 6:4-5, we will experience and practice the many means God has given us to love Him with our whole being.
Chapel Messages On iTunesThe RTS Orlando chapel messages are available for download at RTS on iTunes U.
