Page 72 CLASS OF 2024 LINCOLN DAILY NEWS.COM MAY / JUNE 2024 give a fig about your degree because we don’t know what we need to know.” In humility and in hope, Dr. Scott said the class of 2024 should crawl up in the lap of God when you don’t know what else to do. Speaking to the broader LCU family, Dr. Scott said, in humility and in hope, let’s just crawl up into the lap of God. For a couple of weeks after the news of LCU’s closing came, Dr. Scott said he wept. Though Dr. Scott thought it might be hard to get through the graduation ceremony, he decided to assume the posture of trust like a weaned child. Next, Dr. Scotte commended the courage of the LCU president and the trustees and God because it might have taken an equal amount of courage as it did in 1944 to start the place. Even as World War II was going on 1944, Dr. Earl Hargrove and others had a vision to open the school, which Dr. Scott said must have taken courage. Other schools have done what LCU is doing, but Dr. Scott said he has not seen any school with the integrity this school is doing [in working through the school’s transition]. What Dr. Scott sees the school do is pay the bills and pass the baton. He is proud to be a graduate of LCU. When Dr. Scott and his wife heard the news about the school [and the transition to Ozark Christian College, his wife told him we have to build a building. Though Dr. Scott does not know if or when that will happen, he is glad someday there is something that says Lincoln Seminary so the vision will continue. The Scotts went to Ukraine in 2012 and visited Taviriski Christian Institute, one of the schools LCU sent books to. He later saw the pictures of how the Russians trashed the campus. Dr. Scott said TCU is inheriting one of the finest libraries of our tribe. Through Lincoln Christian Institute, the work of LCU will continue and Dr. Scott mentioned several who will be teaching. He said it is not really about credit or non-credit [classes], it is about equipping the saints and serving the church. Though Dr. Scott is not sure what the right path but feels when we don’t know we should crawl into the lap of God just trusting the vision to live on in God’s ways. When Dr. Scott graduated from Lincoln Christian Seminary in 1983, he recalls receiving the “servant’s towel,” which he considers a prized possession. Started by Dr. Wayne Shaw, the tradition of giving a towel to seminary graduates lives on. Dr. Scott cares that the vision lives on. Pat Robinson, one of Dr. Scott’s teachers at Denver Seminary said that for God, sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a zig zag. Dr. Scott said Lincoln is zigging and zagging, but that is okay. Something else Robinson said is we live in perpetual hope and hope is the music of the future. Faith is the courage to dance to it now. In closing, Dr. Scott said he is ready to dance all the way into his mother’s arms and in humility and hope, crawl up into the lap of God. [Angela Reiners]
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