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Making the Gospel Clear in Our Culture – Part 2

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Last week, Jeremiah Montgomery established the importance of gospel clarity in our communication to a culture that is no longer familiar with biblical/Christian ideas (Link: Part 1). This week he digs into examples of how we do that. Here’s Jeremiah: Making the Gospel Clear (Part 2) When my children were young, one of the books […]

Making the Gospel Clear in Our Culture – Part 1

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We want to bring to this audience a two-part post by Jeremiah Montgomery that was originally published in New Horizons back when Jeremiah was church planting in State College, PA (before he went to the mission field). In these posts, Jeremiah lays out the importance and need for gospel clarity in an age where people […]

An Outside the Box Evangelism Story

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This is a one installment video of a great story of evangelism. Ryan Cavanaugh of Mission OPC in Merriville, Indiana found an opportunity that was true to who he is and the Lord opened amazing doors. Ryan not only tells the story but extracts some principles that should encourage and challenge us. Questions for thought […]

Do You Know Their Playlist?

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Recently, John Shaw read an interesting post on a blog some of you may know called, Gentle Reformation. It’s a thoughtful piece–insightful with the right balance of qualifications–about the powerful messages of some of the most popular music of the day. You’ll notice from the title of the post that it’s a prod to pastors, […]

OPC Millennials Talk Reaching Millennials – Part 4 (Jonathan Cruse)

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This is installment 4 in our series. You can find the other posts here: (Millennials Talk Millennials). This week, we hear from Jonathan Cruse. Jonathan is 27 and the pastor of Community Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Kalamazoo, MI. During Jonathan’s time at Community, the number of millennials has grown to about 25% of the congregation, […]

OPC Millennials Talk Reaching Millennials – Part 3 (Everett Henes)

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This is installment 3 in our series. You can find the other posts here: (Millennials Talk Millennials). This week, we hear from Everett Henes. Everett is the pastor of Hillsdale OPC in Michigan. He’s 43 (yes we know that’s not a millennial), but he’s had extensive ministry opportunities with millennials for the past decade at […]

OPC Millennials Talk Reaching Millennials – Part 1 (Ben Ward)

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We start a new series where we asked several OPC Millennials to talk about reaching Millennials. We provided 4 broad categories of questions, which you will see summarized, to prompt our respondents. These were simply prompts, and we gave them broad leeway to talk about important matters related to the OPC reaching millennials. A millennial […]

On The Frontlines: Eric Hausler – Part 8

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In this final installment, Eric talks about how to approach turning initial encounters with people toward a more developing relationship that may become a gospel opportunity.   (Note: These are all stand alone videos, but if you’ve missed the earlier installments you can find them here: Hausler Series) Questions for Thought or Discussion: 1) How does […]

Podcast Ep. #10: Nick Lammé

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How does a missionary in Costa Rica end up on the mission field of Houston to minister to post-Hurricane Harvey residents? What do people think of the OPC after 1 year of service to Houston residents? How does the service and deacon led ministry of Disaster Response lead to an evangelist on the ground in […]

What We’ve Learned From You

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It’s been about 18 months since we started Outward OPC, which leads us to reflect on a couple of things we’ve learned over the first year and a half of this project. 1. There are many remarkable and wonderful things happening in the OPC regarding evangelism. From the simple and quiet development of gospel-directed relationship […]

New Books on Evangelism

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Over the past year, John Shaw has recommended 2 books on evangelism to churches and to Outward OPC. Numerous people have confirmed their value. They are: Get Real by John Leonard The Gospel Comes With A House Key by Rosaria Butterfield Within the past year, there has been a small flurry of interesting looking books […]

Reader Q&A: Tracts?

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Reader Question: What gospel tract do you recommend, especially for purposes of giving something out when your church has a stand at a fair or festival? This can be a challenging question because there is some subjectivity involved and it seems that no tract is perfect. We will, however, make our best attempt to answer […]

On The Frontlines: Eric Hausler – Part 6

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This installment is particularly geared toward preachers, but may be of interest to all. Eric talks about preaching clearly to unchurched people, without losing the depth of Reformed doctrine.  (Note: These are all stand alone videos, but if you’ve missed the earlier installments you can find them here: Hausler Series) Questions for Thought or Discussion: […]