Education
After graduating from Union University in 1979, Gaines began studies for a Master of Divinity degree at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. For seven years he served as Professor Roy Fish’s grader, longer than anyone else to ever hold that position. In the final year of his master’s program, the seminary preaching faculty awarded Steve with the H. C. Brown, Jr. Preaching Award for “Outstanding Achievement in the Study and Practice of Preaching.” At the same time, the evangelism faculty presented him with the W. Fred Swank Evangelism Award for best demonstrating the spirit of evangelism as a graduating student. Fred Swank was the legendary pastor or Sagamore Hill Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
He was the only Southwestern Seminary graduate to ever receive both awards. For Senior Preaching Week, Gaines was selected to preach in the seminary’s chapel services before his professors and peers. He graduated with his Master’s of Divinity on May 11, 1984.
He began doctoral seminars at Southwestern in the fall of 1985, majoring in preaching and minoring in evangelism. Dr. Fish’s course on The History of Spiritual Awakenings particularly inspired him to pray and seek genuine revival for America. His doctoral dissertation was entitled, “An Analysis of the Correlation between Representative Baptist Hour Sermons by Herschel H. Hobbs and Selected Articles of The Baptist Faith and Message.” He graduated from Southwestern Seminary with a Ph.D. on May 10, 1991.
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