We interviewed Mark Sumpter, Regional Home Missionary for the Presbytery of the Southwest. Mark was a longtime OPC pastor before becoming a Regional Home Missionary 5 years ago. In this first part of our interview, Mark talks about ways in which he implements outreach efforts across a region of the country. He is specific about […]
Open My Lips – Part 2 With Eric Hausler
Continuing with highlights from Eric Hausler’s conference with the Presbytery of Ohio, this short video is very interesting. We started this series talking about how Eric has a view about people as “landscape” that has stuck with a number of people. In our last series on Outward, two of the writers–one from Ohio–mentioned Eric’s illustration. […]
Open My Lips – Part 1 With Eric Hausler
This week, we begin the final section of this series where we are highlighting parts of a conference Eric Hausler did for the Presbytery of Ohio. We are thankful for the Presbytery of Ohio having this conference and allowing and encouraging us to use these shorter clips for this series. Past installments can be found […]
A Remarkable Story of God’s Work in the OPC
21 years. Almost to the day. God answers the prayers of his people as they gather as a church to seek His favor. Recently, Jay Bennett, pastor of Neon Reformed Presbyterian Church in Neon, KY told us a story—a remarkable story of God’s faithfulness. Neon, KY is a rural region of Appalachia. It is very […]
Proclaiming the Cross With Compassion & Love
In last week’s post, Eric Hausler dealt with concerns over sharing the gospel of God’s love in relation to God’s sovereignty. Here is an example of that in practice. From a Q&A segment, Eric shares an idea and example about how to communicate to people with compassion and love: Questions for Thought or Discussion: […]
Proclaiming the Cross to….Everyone – With Eric Hausler
We have already had a whole segment of this series where Eric Hausler did a conference with the Presbytery of Ohio on evangelism in the every day encounters of life. This week’s post is from a second message in that conference where Eric dealt with some theological questions (in a practical way) coming from a […]
A Faithful, Steady Ministry in Rural America – Jay Bennett Part 2
We conclude our interview with Jay Bennett, pastor of Neon Reformed Presbyterian Church (OPC), in Neon, KY. Jay talks about a ministry that seeks to be faithful with what’s in front of them and the Lord blesses in numerous areas. We also learn more about Jay and how the Lord prepared him for Neon, KY–a […]
Are We Living In A Distant Drama?
Last week, we read an interesting article on The Gospel Coalition website called, “The Danger of Being Driven By Distant Drama.” We’ll link the article below if you want to read the whole thing, but as we are prone to do, we want to distill it down to the couple ideas that we found thought […]
Church Planting in Rural America: Jay Bennett – Neon, KY
We interviewed Jay Bennett, pastor of Neon Reformed Presbyterian Church (OPC), in Neon, KY. Eastern Kentucky is an interesting area and the OPC church plant their has a unique story. In this first part of our interview, Jay tells us a little about that story and the challenges the church has faced. He also shares […]
How Do You View The Landscape? – Part 5 (Engaging Normally)
We are continuing our series of posts containing excerpts from a conference, put on by the Presbytery of Ohio, where Eric Hausler taught on evangelism–particularly God’s sovereignty in our everyday encounters with people. You can view previous posts from the series here: Series Posts In a Q&A session, Eric was asked about the difficulty of […]
How Do You View the Landscape? – Part 4 Examples & Application
We are continuing our series of posts containing excerpts from a conference, put on by the Presbytery of Ohio, where Eric Hausler taught on evangelism–particularly God’s sovereignty in our everyday encounters with people. You can view previous posts from the series here: (Series Posts) During the conference, Eric spent some time on application…what does this […]
How Do You View The Landscape? – Part 3 With Eric Hausler
We are continuing our series of posts containing excerpts from a conference, put on by the Presbytery of Ohio, where Eric Hausler taught on evangelism. Eric particularly discussed God’s sovereignty in our everyday encounters with people. You can view previous posts from the series here: (Series Posts) Having laid out how the gospel shapes our […]
How Do You View The Landscape? – Part 2 With Eric Hausler
We are continuing our series of posts containing excerpts from a conference, put on by the Presbytery of Ohio, where Eric Hausler taught on evangelism–particularly God’s sovereignty in our everyday encounters with people. You can view the first post here: Part 1 In the first post, Eric laid out how we are to view people. […]
How Do You View the Landscape? -With Eric Hausler
Eric Hausler is the pastor of Christ the King, an OPC Church in Naples, FL. A couple of years ago we had a great interview with him on Outward OPC. Many in the OPC appreciate Eric’s labors for the church in general and also in particular for his labors in outreach and evangelism to the […]
Ralph Rebandt – Part 2 : 30 Years of Outreach
This is part 2 of our interview with Ralph Rebandt, pastor of Oakland Hills Community Church (OPC), outside of Detroit. Ralph has spent over 30 years at the church, from its early days to now a long time OPC church and at each step of the way seeking to be intentional about reaching the lost […]
Spatially Aware Evangelism?
Recently we found an article on the Reformation 21 blog and thought one portion of the article might be a thought provoking post here on Outward. The article is by Justin Poythress, an Assistant pastor at a PCA church in Fort Myers, FL. You are welcome to read the whole article, but we found this […]
30 years of Evangelism & Outreach in Michigan With Ralph Rebandt
We interviewed Ralph Rebandt, pastor of Oakland Hills Community Church (OPC), outside of Detroit. Ralph has spent over 30 years there from its early days to now a long time OPC church and at each step of the way seeking to be intentional about reaching the lost in the community. This is Part 1 of […]
Communication Series: Discussion & Highlights – Part 3
Our final round of highlights and short excerpts for discussion from our extended series, Truth & Love: Communicating Gospel Truth In Speech & Action. If you’ve missed much of the series, these highlights may spark your curiosity. If you’ve been following the series, these may solidify some thoughts or provide for some discussion with a […]
Truth & Love: Communicating About Gender, Women, & The Church
John Shaw is back on the podcast. John started this series with a podcast about the importance of communication. Then two weeks ago, he discussed the issue of race and the church. This week he returns with another timely issue – gender, women, and the church. This is certainly a topic of conversation both outside […]
Sunday Tour Guide Needed
This week is a fairly lengthy post, but we wanted to give it to you as a whole because it has a flow to it and creates one big picture. We expect that as people read though it, some will be drawn to one section more than another. Not everybody will implement every idea. That’s […]