Dr. Harry V. Richardson president of the Interdenominational Theological Center introduces Dr. Ellison who delivers a lecture on the church and the modern world. In the lecture, he discusses shifting values in a changing society and their causes. He also identifies five common assumptions that characterize the times including moral relativism. Dr. Herman L. Turner, Dr. Harrison McMains, Dr. Harry Fyfield, Dr. Donald Kirkpatrick and Dr. Robert E. Lee explain and describe their association with Atlantas minster manifesto.