Welcome to your Listener’s Resources for our special series on Homosexuality, 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.

“The Spirit of Pride” – July 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 those who are hopelessly lost in this demonic and deceptive lifestyle.

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

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

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

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Welcome to your Listener’s Resources for our special series on the Church called “Here Comes the Bride”, 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.

“Here Comes the Bride” – June 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 unify your church in Gospel and allow you to make the most of reaching out to non-Christians with the Good News of Jesus Christ!

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

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

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

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Welcome to our E-Tools Newsletter for April 2010! This monthly TCC field report also includes strategic outreach resources to encourage, equip, and empower you to more effectively share the Gospel with all the loved ones in your life as we faithfully serve Christ in Canada together.

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Bad Cop/Good Cop…on Good Friday?!

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 “Bad Cop/Good 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.

Watch what went down on video

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.

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“With Outstretched Arms”: Taking the Gospel to the Jew First

Why does God’s Word say that the Gospel is to the Jew first, and then to the Gentiles? Why was Paul the Apostle willing to give up his salvation for the sake of the unsaved Jews? Many Gentiles seem to forget that Jesus was a Jew. In fact, nowhere was the link between God’s redemptive plan and Jesus more clear and powerful than in the suffering servant passages in the book of the Jewish prophet Isaiah.

Do you know that more Jewish people have come to faith in Yeshua (Jesus) in just the last two decades than in the last two millenia? This special series of TCC Radio will reach out to the Jews with the Gospel and help Christians learn how to reason from the Scriptures and allow the Holy Spirit of God to reveal Yeshua’s true identity to the Jewish people.

Maximize your witness with your loved ones using our Producer’s Notes and Listener’s Resources for this series

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TCC TV Pilot Episodes

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.

Watch these pilot episodes of “The Cross Current” TV program

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Important Donation Information!

Will you pray about planned giving towards our cause of local missions in Canada?

There are still several ways to give to TCC. However, at the request of several current monthly ministry supporters, we have recently set up an Automated Funds Transfer (AFT) service to securely transfer your tax deductable donations between your bank account and TCC.

For more information on setting up AFT with TCC, please call our office at (226) 663-1822 or email us at admin@thecrosscurrent.com.

Donate to our mission in Canada

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Our Prayer Pulse for May

Let’s continue partnering together to keep our prayer pulse for TCC and the Church in Canada strong!

This month we humbly ask you, your family, and your church to remember to pray for the following:

• Xstream Team Mission (XTM) Toronto (May 15th) – this is our first local mission trip of 2010. We’ll be personally training a large team of believers from several local churches to witness one-to-one and open air preach in the largest and most multicultural city in Canada.
• Teen Challenge Training (May 12th & 19th) - Cory McKenna will be onsite at Teen Challenge Farm to teach a 2-part witnessing workshop.
• All Ontario Youth Convention (May 22nd) - we will be training a large group of youth onsite before venturing offsite to reach out to the community with the Gospel and good works.

Continue keeping a pulse on our mutual prayer needs

Bookmark our ministry calendar to continue praying for our local missions

We again thank God for you and for your ongoing partnership in preaching His Gospel in Canada.

For His Glory,

The Cross Current Team

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Welcome to your Listener’s Resources for our special series on Roman Catholicism 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.

Roman Catholicism – April 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 the religion with which 46% of Canadians claim affiliation.

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

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

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

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Welcome again to your audio helpful hints for making the most of Part 3 of our current series of TCC Radio talking about law.

This week we’ll be broadcasting a very candid conversation that TCC Rep Chris enjoyed with a girl by the name of Jane. When inviting your loved ones or otherwise to tune in, we would encourage you to leverage the transparency and vulnerability of this interview, by saying something like this:

“Hey, have you ever heard of a wild reality radio show that broadcasts right here in Canada called TCC Radio? Are you familiar with the concept of “speakers corner”? Well, they actually do a “spiritual speakers corner” where they interview average, everyday people on the streets about the toughest topics  people are talking about in our culture! This month they are doing a special on law – do you agree with all the laws in Canada?”

From there you can have your own candid conversation about laws, government, politics, and whatever else the Lord may lead the conversation towards. After a few minutes, you can then transition your talk by saying something like this:

“Well, this week TCC Radio is broadcasting a really “in-your-face” conversation about law that promises to be one of their most fascinating interviews ever! Not only will they be talking with a total stranger about the laws of our land, but they’ll also be asking whether there might be supernatural laws from God as well! You have a lot of really interesting comments on this subject! Will you listen to the show with me so we can chat about it more afterwards?”

Let them know TCC Radio broadcasts in Ontario at 7pm on Grace 105.9 FM in London and on The Stream TV out of Orangeville. It also podcasts on www.tccradio.com.

Please also remember to email us your Gospel glory stories and personal encounters in everyday evangelism to: radio@thecrosscurrent.com.

May the Lord bless you and keep you as you be His witness in your own “Jerusalem” this week!

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Welcome to your audio helpful hints for making the most of our brand new series of TCC Radio on the Law.

Right off the top, we thought it would be helpful to equip you with the exact same script we used on the streets as a conversational/relational springboard towards sharing the Gospel with your family and friends.

Here’s something like you can say to say something like we said:-)

I don’t know if I have told you or not, but I am actually affiliated with this reality radio (and soon to be TV) program called The Cross Current that invites the public to voice their opinions in a spiritual speakers’ corner. They encourage me to survey some of the people I know (and we do!) and this series they are talking with people about the Law – can I get your opinions on the questions they will be asking other people on the air?

(If yes) We are forever being affected by law in Canada and so they are producing a series on law. Here are the questions:

1. In your opinion, why are laws important? (Would you agree that ideally laws are important because they help protect and provide for those who keep them and help punish those who break them?)

2. If you were Prime Minister of Canada, what sorts of laws would you add? Why? What sorts of laws would you take away? Why?

3. Have you ever studied the history of law? Many would believe that the original code of moral law came from the Jewish Torah in the form of ten rules. Do you know what they are called? (The Ten Commandments)

4. Are you familiar with the Ten Commandments? How many can you name?

5. Do you know Who wrote the Ten Commandments? (God) I mentioned that The Cross Current does a “spiritual” speakers’ corner too. Do you believe in God? Why or why not?

Bridge: If the Ten Commandments were God’s standard for who is “good enough” to go to heaven, how would you do?

From there we encourage you to step out in faith and share the Gospel and also invite them to tune in to hear the truth about law and order – in light of eternity!

Let them know that TCC Radio broadcasts in Ontario this Friday at 7pm on Grace 105.9 FM in London and on The Stream TV out of Orangeville. It also podcasts on www.tccradio.com.

Oh, and once again, please send us your Gospel glory stories and personal encounters in everyday evangelism to: radio@thecrosscurrent.com.

We thank God for you and look forward to another great week preaching His Gospel together!

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Welcome to your audio helpful hints for making the most of our fourth and final episode of the TCC Radio series, Love Endures. This week I want to share our script writers’ “prayer closet prep work” for this episode…

God demonstrated his love in the completion of the Gospel, but He also shows His love to everyday people by sending other everyday people to them with the precious word of His testimony. God does not send perfect people to intimidate others. He sends people who are just as much in need of His grace as the very people they are sent to! It is God’s love that motivates us to go and this love should make people envious.

The greatest pain of all that we can experience in this lifetime is when we realize the reality that the God of love, He Who actually is love, is unreachable and there is nothing we can do to be in relationship with Him. That pain is accompanied by the paralyzing fear that since we can’t get to God, we will have to endure the greatest pain of all eternity in hell separated from the source of all that’s good – God Himself. It is this moment that we share with people we love, in love, so they will call on the Lord our God and be saved – as He has promised to do for anyone who calls on Him.

Church, I have to tell you that this week’s script is so rich and rooted in the truth of Scripture that we would suggest you just go for gusto and invite people to tune in to hear about the greatest pain and the greatest good surrounding God’s love.

TCC Radio broadcasts this Friday at 7pm on Grace 105.9 FM in London and on The Stream TV out of Orangeville. It also podcasts on www.tccradio.com.

Oh, and one more reminder! Please remember to send us your Gospel glory stories and personal adventures in everyday evangelism to: radio@thecrosscurrent.com.

We give God thanks for you and pray that His strength will be perfect in your weakness this week!

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Happy belated Valentine’s Day! This is Cory and here are your audio helpful hints for making the most of Part 3 of our new series of TCC Radio called “Love Endures”.

This week we’re broadcasting and podcasting a fascinating conversation that TCC Rep Jeff enjoyed with a girl named Jaylene, who professes faith in Jesus Christ.

Not only does Jaylene offer some great answers and insights into her understanding of love, but the conversation gets really interesting when Jeff asks her several tough questions that we train all of our Reps to ask when we encounter another Christ-follower on the streets:

>”If I wasn’t a believer in Jesus Christ and had just 3 minutes to live…what would you say to me?”

>”Do you talk about sin with the people you share Christ with? If so, how?”

>”What about repentance? Is that important to mention when sharing the Gospel?”

How would Jaylene answer? How would you answer those questions yourself? Well, that’s why this will be a great episode to invite other believers to check out! But because the Word of God is so powerful and God Himself is patient not wanting anyone to perish, we also invite you to invite your prayer list to tune in again this week too! And here’s how you might do that this week…

Simply tell them that you are affiliated with a wild reality radio (and soon to be TV) broadcast that invites average, everyday people to take part in a spiritual speakers’ corner-type conversation. They also talk about hot topics in the culture and also ask the big question of life: where will you spend eternity?

From there you can ask them to tune in to a special show talking about love this Friday at 7pm on Grace 105.9 FM in London and on www.thestreamTV.com out of Orangeville and it also podcasts on tccradio.com.

Please also send us your Gospel glory stories and personal adventures in everyday evangelism to radio@thecrosscurrent.com and – with your consent – we’d love to publish them on our blog at www.thecrosscurrent.com/blog!

We again thank God for you and pray that He gives you His strength and wisdom to be His witness this week!

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“All you need is love, love, love is all you need.” So John Lennon says, but is that really true? Well, what better time to find out than during the month of love – February? And that’s exactly what we’re going to do.

Hi, this is Cory and here are your audio helpful hints for making the most of Part 1 of our new series of TCC Radio called “Love Endures”.

The Bible says that “God so loved the world that he gave His only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” and that He “shows us love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Clearly God so loved us and shows His love, yet He is also holy, righteous, and just. How does that all work?

Well, in effort to intentionally invite your loved ones to listen to the show this week so you can talk about it with them afterwards, feel free to invite them to invite them to participate in a short “spiritual survey” for a reality radio show that you are affiliated with! Here are the inquisitive ice-breakers we used on the streets that we trust will be as effective for you as they were for us:

1. How would you define love? In your opinion, what makes a person “lovable”?

2. I’m sure you love someone, don’t you? In your thinking, what exactly makes you love that person?

3. If you don’t mind me asking, what’s something really big that you would do for that person with no questions asked?

4. Would you consider yourself “lovable”? Why or why not?

5. A recent magazine add cited the Taj Mahal in India as the “ultimate symbol of love”. What do you think the ultimate symbol of love is?

From there you can either share with them why the Cross is the ultimate symbol of love or simply invite them to tune in to TCC Radio with you – broadcasted this Friday at 7pm on Grace 105.9 FM in London and on www.thestreamtv.com in Orangeville and also podcasted on www.tccradio.com.

Again, we sincerely invite you to send us your Gospel glory stories to radio@thecrosscurrent.com. You never know, we may even publish them here on our blog – with your consent, of course!

We thank God for you always in our prayers and let’s pray for His grace, favour, and truth to rest on our collective labour for Him again this week!

Click here to access the “Canada Needs Christ” page at www.tccradio.com

Now, we couldn’t fit all the street conversations we had in the show, but we thought you’d enjoy hearing several more that we found particularly interesting in the context of Christianity in Canada.

Content Disclaimer: The following audio files are unedited to preserve conversational authenticity and may contain offensive language. Listener discretion is advised.

TCC Rep Chris talks with Nancy

TCC Rep John talks with Anna

Cory talks with Brandon and John

Above (l to r): Brandon, Cory (TCC), John, Brandon