Recapping Occoquan Bible Church's EQUIP Conference

This past September, Occoquan Bible Church hosted a weekend conference aimed to equip the saints for their works of service.

This year’s conference was twofold, considering marriage and evangelism. Typically seen as two silos of Christian discipleship, we learned how marriage displays the gospel and how evangelism powerfully communicated through our homes. Together marriage and evangelism inform and strengthen one another. A Christ-centered marriage improves our understanding on how we can share the gospel, and a commitment to sharing Christ with our neighbors sets our marriages on a course for evangelism and missions.

All the messages can be found on our website, along with numerous additional resources to help your marriage flourish and your evangelism to grow. For convenience, we’ve also listed them below.

CONFERENCE AUDIO

Session I: The Mission of Marriage by David Schrock

Session II: Evangelism in the Church and Home by Tim Brister

Session III: Marriage: Think Big! Looking at Marriage from a Strategic Perspective by Joe Flatt

Session IV: Neighboring by Tim Brister

• Strangers to Missionaries
• Cultural Engagement
• Evangelism in a Post-Christian World
• Polarity in Post-Christendom

Session V: Marriage: Think Big! Looking at Marriage from a Tactical Perspective by Joe Flatt

Session VI: Marriage: Think Big! Looking at Marriage from a Personal Perspective by Joe Flatt

Q&A With Joe Flatt and Tim Brister

Q&A With Joe and Judy Flatt

For Further Reflection

ON MARRIAGE

• Married for God by Christopher Ash 
• The Meaning of Marriage by Timothy and Kathy Keller
• What Did You Expect? Redeeming the Realities of Marriage by Paul David Tripp
• Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy? by Gary Thomas
• This Momentary Marriage by John Piper

ON EVANGELISM, NEIGHBORING, AND CHURCH LIFE

• The Art of Neighboring: Building Genuine Relationships Right Outside Your Door by Jay Pathak and Dave Runyon
• A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission Around the Table by Tim Chester
• Next Door as It Is in Heaven: Living Out God's Kingdom in Your Neighborhood by Brad Brisco and Lance Ford
• Everyday Church: Gospel Communities on Mission by Steve Timmis and Tim Chester
• When the Church Was a Family: Recapturing Jesus’ Vision for Authentic Christian Community by Joseph Hellerman
• The Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman
• Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

ON NEIGBORING FROM TIM BRISTER

• In Pursuit of Christian Essentialism
• Missional Moleskin: Your City Travelogue 
• Be-ing on Mission in Community
• Life is too short to be in a hurry
• Posture in Post-Christendom
• Perspective in Post-Christendom
• Paradigms in Post-Christendom
• Polarity in Post-Christendom
• Triperspectivalism and Cultural Engagement, Part 1
• Triperspectivalism and Cultural Engagement, Part 2
• Triperspectivalism and Cultural Engagement, Part 3
• From Strangers to Missionaries: A Neighborhood Strategy for Mission
• Re-Entering Every “Place” for Gospel Advance
• From Strangers to Missionaries: Fleshing It Out (1)
• From Strangers to Missionaries: Fleshing It Out (2)
• Dunbar’s Number and Your Diversified Relationship Investments