Dr. Eric Watkins

Degrees:
A.A. Carteret Community College, 1994
B.A. Southeastern Bible College, 1997
M.Div. Westminster Seminary California, 2000
Th.M. Reformed Theological Seminary, 2009
Ph.D. Theological University in Kampen, Netherlands, 2016

Dr. Watkins is the senior pastor of Harvest Presbyterian Church (OPC) in San Marcos, California. He has been a pastor in the OPC since 2001.  He has planted two churches for the OPC and very much enjoys the work of church planting. He serves on the Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension for the OPC. He loves the church and loves to see people won to Christ through faithful preaching and evangelism.

Dr. Watkins' Ph.D. dissertation The Drama of Preaching:  Participating with God in the History of Redemption was published by Wipf and Stock in 2017.  It focuses on the idea of preaching Christ from the Old Testament in a postmodern context.  He is also the author of numerous articles for TableTalk, New Horizons, and Christian Renewal magazines, as well as other scholarly publications. He is also the author of a forthcoming book on Hebrews 11, to be published by Reformation Trust.  His research interests are preaching, evangelism, church planting, theology/practice of mission, and postmodernism.  He is very much a practitioner as well, and enjoys being “in the trenches” doing the work of the ministry.

Dr. Watkins is a member of the Evangelical Homiletics Society and is a frequent conference speaker.