Alabama Baptist 'treasure' Robert Smith retires as preaching professor at Beeson

The Alabama Baptist

Alabama Baptist 'treasure' Robert Smith retires as preaching professor at Beeson

Robert Smith Jr. said his mother was protective of him when he was growing up. People would tell him that they thought he was going to be a preacher, and she didn’t want them telling him that. “She said, ‘If Little Robert is to preach, the Lord will call him,’” Smith said. And the Lord did. At age 17, after years of serving as a junior deacon and reading the Scriptures in worship, he felt the call to preach. “I had no idea how it would feed into…