Pursuing Spiritual Authenticity

Help your congregation experience the life-changing relevance of the Old Testament Old Testament Challenge (OTC) is a turn-key program to help everyone in your church understand and apply the Old Testament. Participants experience the content in multiple contexts: through sermons, group discussions, and personal devotions. This 32-week series is designed for churches to teach, study, and discuss the entire Old Testament over a 9-month period. The goal of OTC is to discover the life-changing truths of the Old Testament and how they can be applied to life today. Based on Pastor John Ortberg's OTC series at the New Community services at Willow Creek Community Church, this resource enables churches to raise the level of biblical literacy and understanding among their congregations. This OTC curriculum kit has 8 lessons. This fourth kit covers the prophetic books and includes everything you need to preach 8 sermons. Lesson titles: * Elijah: Holding Steady in a Roller Coaster World * Elisha: Receiving a Spiritual Legacy * Amos: How God Measures a Life * Isaiah: Pursuing Spiritual Authenticity * Hezekiah: Radical Trust * Micah: Doing Justice * Jeremiah: When God Gives a Hard Assignment * The Life Giving Power of Hope Contents: * Teacher's Guide containing material from Ortberg's weekly teachings for pastors and/or teachers * Discussion Guide focusing on specific passages from the Old Testament, designed for weekly or bi-weekly use and including leader's notes * DVD and VHS Video presenting an OTC "vision-casting" message from Ortberg, a promotional piece or churches, and creative elements to use during the OTC message * CD-ROM providing 8 PowerPoint presentations for use with each of the OTC messages. It also contains 40 FAQ sheets answering tough questions from the Old Testament for use on your website or to be photocopied * Audio Sermons CD containing 8 messages preached by John Ortberg In addition to the kit, 2 other resources are available: * Taking the Old Testament Challenge Reading Guide * Implementation Guide for starting the entire Old Testament Challenge