Asbury Theological Seminary

Alfred W. Gwinn is bishop of the North Carolina Annual Conference.

He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kentucky and received a M.Div. at Asbury Theological Seminary.  He has also received an honorary D.D. from Kentucky Wesleyan College, Union College and Asbury Seminary.

Rev. M. B. Cockrill wrote in “The Pentecost Herald” on Wednesday, August 11, 1897:

• When a camp-meeting ceases to save souls it ought to cease to exist.
• A white necktie and spotless shirt front don’t prove that the owner has a pure heart.
• There is a negative and a positive side to Christianity.  The positive is what we must do, the negative what we must not do.
• Someone has called attention to the fact that the word “blessed” begins both the Psalms and the Sermon on the Mount.
• If a man is not bearing a clear, ringing testimony to entire sanctification, it is because he is not clearly in the experience.
• A Christian has no right to stand in the way of sinners – no, not so much as by a look or word or act, much less by the whole trend of his life.
• Every Christian whose life is not strictly exemplary, is hindering some one from coming to Christ.  A blustering testimony and active work in church matters cannot atone for a slack life.
• Wailing in the counsel of the ungodly is positively forbidden in the Word of God.  We cannot take the world’s advice, nor can we observe its maxims in business, society or elsewhere, without sin.
• You only swear occasionally, or occasionally smoke a cigar, or occasionally break the Sabbath, or occasionally back-bite your neighbor – it is often the occasional deeds which show most surely the real life.

An Ingathering of the Movement to seek the Spirit of Holiness with the Global Church.  September 14-16, 2010

Holiness. . . our core longing. The mystery of the Gospel spreads like a contagion across the land as the foolishness of the Cross gets unleashed in the World. For 87 years Asbury Theological Seminary has sought to participate in this eternal movement of Scriptural Holiness. 

The Alumni Office will be hosting a special picnic with President Dr. Timothy C. Tennent and his wife, Julie, during Ichthus.  All alumni who are participating in Ichthus are welcome to attend.  This will be a casual come-and-go barbeque picnic at Rose Hill.  Rose Hill is the Asbury president’s house and is not too far from the Ichthus grounds.