Chapel will enable a student to:

A. hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ proclaimed and have an opportunity to personally respond to the Holy Spirit's leading to experience a personal, vibrant relationship with Jesus Christ within a Christian community (Institutional Goals and Objectives 1, 7, 9) 

B. hear the foundational beliefs of the Christian faith explained, including the importance of God the Creator, as well as God the redeemer sustainer, i.e., significance of the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, salvation, and the role of the Holy Spirit (Institutional Goals and Objectives 1, 2, 9)

C. develop a better understanding of what it means to “love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength” (Institutional Goals and Objectives 2, 7, 8)

D. come to understand and appreciate the Christian community and its practices (Institutional Goals and Objectives 4, 5, 6)

E. appreciate the diversity within the body of Christ and begin to understand/demonstrate the importance of being actively involved in the “ministry of reconciliation” among God's people (Institutional Goals and Objectives 1, 4, 5, 6)

F. articulate his/her own “worldview,” as well as the ability to explain, expand, and refine it in light of Scripture, tradition, reason and experience (Institutional Goals and Objectives 1, 2, 5, 6)

G. identify and/or begin to develop the spiritual disciplines in his/her own Christian life (Institutional Goals and Objectives 2, 7, 9)

H. become more “Biblically-literate” through the periodic preaching and teaching of a particular book of the Bible or a Biblical theme each semester/year (Institutional Goals and Objectives 1, 2, 9)

I. understand and personally demonstrate worship as a lifestyle, rather than an event (Institutional Goals and Objectives 1, 2, 9)

J. learn to appreciate a variety of worship styles, from traditional, to contemporary, to international (Institutional Goals and Objectives 3, 6, 9)

K. learn to understand the heritage of the Wesleyan theological tradition and the distinctive history of Greenville College in particular.

L. learn forms of behavior appropriate to worship in our culture, including the value of respect for one another, and appropriate submission of individual rights to the good of the whole.

M. deepen in spiritual and aesthetic sensitivity through programming which attends to transitions and models such sensitivity.

N. become informed about current real-world issues and events which require Christian citizens to form opinions and take action.