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What better day of the year to share the Good News than Good Friday? But, unfortunately, the two policemen who moved us off a public street corner this past April 2nd didn’t share our enthusiasm for preaching the Gospel to the lost of London, Ontario.

Our team of twelve seed sowers hit the streets of our hometown with a simple plan: pray and preach. After sharing the Gospel one-to-one with several people downtown, we busted out the soapbox and began open air preaching. Cory McKenna was the first to break the sound barrier, preaching a message called “What’s so good about Good Friday?”. Tom Woodburn stepped up next, opening the Scriptures to share the true meaning of Easter. However, it was when Jeff Mardling began preaching that we were confronted by the “Good Cop/Bad Cop” tagteam.

“Good Cop” told us that we had to move because we were blocking foot traffic on the sidewalk, which we were not. When that angle didn’t work, “Bad Cop” abruptly announced that we were actually breaking a municipal noise by-law, despite the fact we were not using any form of amplification. Though we knew that our rights as Canadian citizens were being violated, we humbly assured both policemen that we respected their authority and would comply with their request to move, so as not to corrupt our witness for Christ.

As this is the second time we have been moved off public property for preaching the Gospel, we are currently seeking legal counsel and will soon be providing comprehensive training to local missionaries on municipal, provincial, and federal laws pertaining to Gospel preaching in Canada.        

Watch below what went down on video. WARNING: this footage is unedited and may contain very brief but offensive background language.

TCC TV | Bad Cop/Good Cop…on Good Friday? from The Cross Current on Vimeo.

Welcome to your Listener’s Resources for our special series on Judaism called “With Outstretched Arms”, as heard on The Cross Current Radio Show!

These simple outreach resources will allow you to witness to your loved ones using the same basic tools that our field reps use throughout the production of each radio series.

“With Outstretched Arms” – May 2010 | Producer’s Notes & Listener’s Script

Follow the simple download instructions below to access these TCC Radio outreach resources. We pray they will help you make the most of reaching out to both Jews and Gentiles with the Good News of Jesus Christ!

Judaism – Producer’s Notes (Download: Right-click, “Save as”)

Producer’s Notes presented by: Kevin Lane – TCC Radio writer & producer

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Judaism – Listener’s Script (Download: Click, save, and print)

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On April 12th, five TCC local missionaries teamed up to take a roadtrip to the bi-annual “Together for the Gospel” (T4G) conference in Louisville, Kentucky. We had the privilege of joining 7000 other Christian leaders from across the world for a mind-blowing time of worship, fellowship, and teaching by several of the most faithful Gospel preachers in the world today.

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Right: Chris Wood (R) and Cory McKenna (L) connect with Pastor John Piper at T4G 2010.

Here was the synopsis for this year’s focus of “The Unadjusted Gospel”: The good news does not adjust. It’s always the same and it’s always good. Jesus Christ, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever, proclaims a message that’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. So should we.

Amen!

Check out the audio & video from T4G 2010

Join The Cross Current “In the Studio and On the Street” for this pilot series of encounters in everyday evangelism!

In Part 1, we take you into the studio of Grace 105.9 FM in London, Ontario to talk about witnessing with Pastor Norm Millar of Harvest Bible Chapel. In Part 2, you will experience an encounter in “wireless witnessing”; a Gospel conversation from the studio to the street via cell phone in real-time with a non-Christian!

The clips are raw, the conversations are real, and this is what happens when we step out in faith to share our faith together.

Witnessing Workshop | Session 1: Witnessing FIRSTS (Sample) from Cory McKenna on Vimeo.

The new TCC Witnessing Workshop DVD series is scheduled for release this fall! For the very first time, The Cross Current’s flagship training stream for unifying your church in the Gospel will be available in DVD format for small or large groups.

This DVD-based curriculum, comprised of 7 interactive sessions, will help you and your church leverage our experience in the local mission field to “normalize” sharing your faith in all your personal relationships and beyond.

This series will also be supported and supplemented by several web-based leader and member resources. Stay tuned for more information!

Right now while I’m writing this Tsunami waves created by the earthquake near Chile are speeding toward Hawaii. At the time of this writing they are about 90 minutes away and the news is saying there could be waves as high as 8 feet tall hitting the islands.

Moments ago MSNBC was discussing the evacuation efforts. Of course there are people who are refusing to leave their homes, just like in every disaster.

Have you ever watched the news report on a hurricane heading toward a city and wondered what on Earth would make a person put their family at risk by refusing to leave?

It’s flat-out amazing to me how we can be aware of these things coming these days. Decades ago these waves would hit Hawaii and we wouldn’t know about it until long after it happened, let alone know that they were coming in the first place. So here’s the question; We know it’s coming, and it will likely kill you and your family – what do you do?

Evangelism is just like that. We have clear, accurate warning of the Judgment to come. What will you do? Will you stand steadfast in your pride or will you save you and your family? Those of us who are watching you are thinking the same thoughts you are as you watch the foolish people in Hawaii who refuse to leave their homes right now.

Repent today.

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to let everyone know, for who couldn’t make it, that we had a great event. Saturday we had a our Coat Drive in East London, where we offered hot chocolate, coats and a warm place for some prayer. We also gave out tracts and Bibles and had some great conversations. For the people God brought, you can be sure that the Gospel was shared, hot chocolate and clothes were given and that know matter what happens to them after that they cannot deny that God is alive in London. Some people that I can think of to pray for; a sixteen year old named Issac who the Gospel visually had a profound impact, please pray that he takes up my offer for a get together to chat more this week. For Mike and Keri, who struggled with Alcohol and drug addictions, plus lost everything in a fire a short time ago. Keri also has kidney problems. Also, let’s pray for a gentlemen named Tim, who Tom W. was able to poor into his life for some time, Tim was the first person to show up yesterday and praise God and thank Tom W. for going and picking him up this Sunday morning and bringing him to church.

Let’s never underestimate the power of the Gospel and the Love of |God that is demonstrated through good works.

Thanks everyone who was able to join or who prayed for us and the people yesterday.

The training that the Crosscurrent has brought to the GO Team has definitely spun into a more boldness to be out in the community to serve and to speak the Gospel into lives.

God bless and Thank you
Chris
GO Team Leader and TCC Rep

By TCC Writer/Producer Kevin Lane

Recently we put the message out that the computer Cory uses needed to be upgraded in a very bad way! Thank you to those who responded and helped us get a used MacBook Pro!!! I’ve been using SONAR on Windows to mix the show for a long time now. As we discussed Cory’s use of the Mac we realized it makes a lot of sense for us all to be on the same setup. So my family went out and purchased an “open box” MacBook Pro, Logic Studio and an Apogee ONE audio interface. Being a huge fan of Linux I wasn’t afraid to make the switch one bit, and really I’m not looking back. Last week’s show (Shema O Islam part 4) is hopefully the last episode of TCC which will ever be done in Windows.

Right now I’m working on a template for the new shows, thankfully we’re going fully live again this week so I’ve got a few extra days to get up to speed. Anyway I thought you all might like a look at the new studio setup. So check it out!

It was about a week ago that I got together with a person I witnessed with named Monir. Monir was of the Bahai faith and we had a great conversation. After a fews days I was excited to have an email from Monir saying he was interested in getting together to continue our conversation and that he was going to bring a friend. Setting the date, my partner in crime John Gonciarz, and myself went to meet Monir and his friend at Williams Coffee shop downtown.

Well it turned out that Monir’s friend was a teacher of the Bahai faith for a number of years, named William. We had a great conversation and I was able to share the Gospel with him and water the seed that was planted in Monir, but after all our conversation there was no outward sign of repentance, but God can and does work the heart.

With regards to the Bahai faith, apparently my ‘newest member to my prayer list’ told me that they believe in the Bible and that Jesus died for our sins. Unfortunately they do not understand sin, because they believe people are naturally good and that Jesus already came back in the 1800’s as a man named Bahai U’llah.  I spent some time showing them through scripture that you can only be saved through Jesus Christ and that there is only one name under heaven in which we can be saved, that is Jesus Christ, not Bahai U’llah.  But all William would do is say take the ‘fruit’ he had to offer which is also what he thought the Bible was referring to when it talks about fruit.  What was this fruit, non other then the book that Bahai U’llah wrote.  I also stressed that by them believing in Bahai U’llah and not the Christ of the Bible they are trusting in another gospel and Paul make explicit statements on anyone bringing another gospel in Galatians 1:6-9. 

Well, after giving them some material to read, and thanking them for there time we parted ways, but I am happy to say that the are interested in getting together to discuss more. If anyone has anything they would like to say about the Bahai faith or the comparison with Christianity, please feel free to respond to this Blog and we can help clear things up.

Stay tuned for part 2…………….

Chris

Dear partners in the gospel:

On behalf of our family and the ministry team of The Cross Current, we wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas and a joyous holiday season!

The McKenna’s (l to r: Caleb, Cory, Dawn, and Joshua)

We would greatly appreciate you printing off this blog posting and placing the above picture of our family in your Bible or on your fridge as a constant reminder that we need your prayer. Please pray that God will continue protecting and providing for our family and ministry as we faithfully step out onto the local mission field again this year.

I again personally thank God for you and for your partnership with us! Let’s look forward to another exciting year of working together to make His Name great in Canada.

For His Glory,

Cory McKenna (Founder) & The Cross Current Team