Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It's time now for our community connection. Right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you trust, and right here in
Speaker 1: studio we have a doctor Jerome van Kikin and professor.
Speaker 1: We have got a big event coming up on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: What we have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, We'll have the Creed We Need, which is a
Speaker 2: community event about the seventeen hundredth anniversary of the Nicene
Speaker 2: Creed held at Oklahoma Westley University six thirty pm.
Speaker 1: Now I go to a church, we repeat the Nicene
Speaker 1: Creed ever we recited every time we have a worship service.
Speaker 1: But for those who don't know what the creed is,
Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about just a little bit.
Speaker 1: I know. We got to come to the event to
Speaker 1: fight the whole history and everything.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, yeah, So this is the most widely accepted
Speaker 2: creed across Christian denominations, across history. It binds Christians from
Speaker 2: all sorts of backgrounds together and started in the three
Speaker 2: hundreds AD and church council got together to put it together,
Speaker 2: and since then it's become incredibly influential.
Speaker 1: Now it is one thing that when I resigned, I
Speaker 1: think of how much there was things pulling each other
Speaker 1: apart prior to that, and how this came together to
Speaker 1: unify things. And I can't even imagine the world back then,
Speaker 1: let alone how people were thinking. But in a way,
Speaker 1: this is what they say, puts the bow on it
Speaker 1: and ties it all together. Oklahoma, Wesleyan University, of course,
Speaker 1: right here in Bartlesville. We've been having some very nice
Speaker 1: presentations and talks over the past year or so that
Speaker 1: I've been familiar with, and this is going to be
Speaker 1: another one. What's the cost to get in? Ah?
Speaker 3: It's free?
Speaker 1: Really? Okay? Well, then you go there, you go, there,
Speaker 1: you go, get you tickets. Now where are we going
Speaker 1: to hold this at Lion Hall?
Speaker 3: Yes, it'll be at Line Hall all right.
Speaker 1: Now, tell us a little bit about your background and
Speaker 1: what you teach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am Professor Christian Thought at the school, which
Speaker 2: basically means I teach some Bible survey classes to freshmen.
Speaker 2: I teach what's called Christian worldview to a lot of
Speaker 2: our non ministry majors, and then I teach ministry courses
Speaker 2: as well theology and philosophy.
Speaker 1: You come from a little bit. This kind of runs
Speaker 1: in the family, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: It does.
Speaker 2: My dad's a pastor in southern Indiana.
Speaker 1: You've been doing it for a little bit, imagine, and
Speaker 1: you went to Kentucky Bible College.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kentucky Mountain Bible College.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I forgot the mountain there. But you know, this
Speaker 1: is really kind of neat. We are talking about Oklahoma
Speaker 1: Wesleyan University before we came on the air and how
Speaker 1: this campus is so nicely position right out there in
Speaker 1: the woods and so to speak. And you've got a
Speaker 1: real good spirit of community out there from everything that
Speaker 1: I can tell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we've got a great administration and a lot
Speaker 2: of collegiality among my fellow professors and then students that
Speaker 2: we love to pour into.
Speaker 1: You know, something you're welcoming in more. I saw the
Speaker 1: apartments going up across the street, and that's going to
Speaker 1: make it a little bit easier for some students to
Speaker 1: make this their four year destination. And of course, with
Speaker 1: the creed we still need, We're going to get back
Speaker 1: to that a little bit here. That's coming up six
Speaker 1: thirty Tuesday at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. You really don't want
Speaker 1: to miss this, and you really don't have to be
Speaker 1: a person of any denomination to attend if you got
Speaker 1: that curiosity, and especially if you are a Christian and
Speaker 1: you're saying, what am I missing here? Did I miss something?
Speaker 1: This is a great way to do some exploration and
Speaker 1: really learn a few things and kind of get immersed
Speaker 1: in something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: I just my son just joined the Air Force and
Speaker 2: part of getting in the training that he has for that,
Speaker 2: as they have the Airman's Creed that captures the core
Speaker 2: values of the Air Force. And so if we think
Speaker 2: about the Nicene Creed, this creed that we're going to
Speaker 2: be talking about as being like that, it just captures
Speaker 2: the core values of Christianity.
Speaker 3: And it's good to know it is.
Speaker 1: And you know, once you know that, it stays with you.
Speaker 1: So you might have been somebody who learned this maybe
Speaker 1: in Sunday school or vacation Bible school, because not every
Speaker 1: church recites this every Sunday, Right, So if yours doesn't
Speaker 1: come on in, the door's open, we're going to learn
Speaker 1: a few things and we're going to share a few things.
Speaker 1: There's going to be any Q and A on this,
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, I knew it. If you got a professor involved,
Speaker 1: there will be a Q and A because professors like
Speaker 1: to answer questions, well most do, most do, and Professor
Speaker 1: Van Kaik and this is going to be a really
Speaker 1: pretty cool Is there going to be a panel or
Speaker 1: you're going to be flying solo?
Speaker 3: It'll just be me.
Speaker 1: Well, there you go. You can't you can't ask for
Speaker 1: more than that. You know you're gonna fly solo on
Speaker 1: this one. And it's gonna be a very like I said,
Speaker 1: very warm, very open, uh surrounding there. If you go
Speaker 1: to Lion Hall, there's not a bad seat in the house,
Speaker 1: not a pas seat, and they're all pretty comfortable. So
Speaker 1: how long is this gonna last? About an hour or so?
Speaker 1: An hour an hour and this is good. So maybe
Speaker 1: if you're heading to your Sunday school class or maybe
Speaker 1: meeting up with some of your church friends this weekend,
Speaker 1: come as a group. You know, everybody's got the invitation,
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna nobody's all good. But this is this is
Speaker 1: something that I think should really be celebrated. It's called
Speaker 1: the creed. We still need. Are we finding some parts
Speaker 1: of Christianity kind of getting away from this? I think
Speaker 1: we see this some splintering taking up, even further splintering
Speaker 1: taking place, and as a professor of Christian thought. Here,
Speaker 1: how did that? How does that feel? I mean, you
Speaker 1: see that it can't sit well with you.
Speaker 3: No, it's really sad.
Speaker 2: I mean because even church's nominations that may not recite
Speaker 2: the nice and crete every Sunday historically have had the
Speaker 2: same values, even if they haven't expressed in the same way.
Speaker 2: But unfortunately, nowadays there are a lot that are kind
Speaker 2: of drifting away from even those values.
Speaker 1: But there are some forms of proclaimed Christianity that have
Speaker 1: kind of fallen off the board so much. I don't
Speaker 1: recognize it. And I don't think I'm being a bad
Speaker 1: guy for saying it doesn't look the same to me.
Speaker 1: That's the observation.
Speaker 3: Huh yeah.
Speaker 1: Boy. Well, hopefully with this folks can make individual commitment
Speaker 1: once they hear about this, or reaffirm, and that's really
Speaker 1: a good thing to do, is to come in and
Speaker 1: reaffirm during this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I have a book that I've written, a
Speaker 2: little book called The Creed We Need that will also
Speaker 2: be made available at the end of the of this event.
Speaker 1: Do you have that out there on that Amazon thing?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Amazon?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, okay, The Creed we Need I have to
Speaker 2: go procure that with my grandit card here in a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 1: This is great and anything that folks need to bring,
Speaker 1: should they bring anything with them just themselves in an
Speaker 1: open mind, yeah and an open heart.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for coming in and once
Speaker 1: again that is the creed we still need. That'll be
Speaker 1: six thirty Tuesday at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. Admission is free
Speaker 1: and it'll be a Lion Hall. You can't miss. It's
Speaker 1: about the first thing you see when you pull in
Speaker 1: the parking lot. It's huge. Thank you, professor, sir. Folks
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