Paul

Come Now Is The Time
Our God Saves
God Of Wonders
You Never Let Go
Matt 4:23
Our God Saves/You Never Let Go

Announcements

Formal men’s ministry
Feb 7 8-10am
Round table get together twice a month or more and intimately bond
Not a bible study per se

Go see Peter Pan

Grace – Dreaming Out Loud

This message has burned within her for a year and a half
Pastor Jon is in Michigan
Genesis 37-47
Our passions and their role in our spiritual life
Joseph was a dreamer
When she first saw Matt she thought he was cute, but he was a jerk and ignored her
She’s a PK and preached at her dad’s church
That’s where she fell in love with youth
Saw Matt in worship and really noticed him
He’s giving a friend a ride home from her house and she’s giving him directions
She hangs up and tells her friend that she’s going to marry him
Dreaming out loud is your heart shouting out
She wanted to be the checkout girl when she grew up
When you’re a little kid you just say your dreams
But as we grow up we stop doing that
Joseph tells his dream and it makes his family jealous
Something to live and die for
God gives you something bigger than you
1. Encouragement, accountability
If the church doesn’t rally around people, where do we go?
Tired of hearing about Brad and Ben helping African orphans…where’s the church?!?!?!?!
Gods called you to where you are for a reason
Joseph shares his dream and his brothers say we’re going to kill you
The church does that
Joseph runs out of the house naked screaming “Integrity!”
2. Timing is huge
Work by His timing, not our timing
Joseph is faithful enough to wait for the dream
Joseph rises to top prisoner assisstant and notices baker/butler stressing out and asks them what’s wrong
Baker dies, butler goes back and forgets him for two years
Joseph has to be wondering where God is
We can get so distracted by circumstances
God is building our character
Jon asked her if she was struggling with anything and she said no, but here’s what Matt is struggling with
Joseph is faithful, humble and hard working
We want a microwave God, not a crock pot God
What does He have right now in his hands for you?
How can He trust you with a million dollars if you can’t be faithful with two?
Dreams don’t come true, goals do
Joseph ministered to people
Interpreted dreams
22 years later it all comes true
He had so much wisdom
Disillusionment, discouragement, and disappointment
Those who do something do something
DO SOMETHING
When was the last time you educated yourself?
If you have a passion, follow through
What are you doing right now?
Writing a book? Start a blog
Business connecting with the community? Run a food drive
DDD
Fear of man, fear of public opinion
We’ll do a beach cleanup with the bonfire
Everybody gets lost, no firepits, no cell signal
We have got to move past DDD
It starts now
Doors will slam in your face, people will call you crazy
Jeami Duncan is in Africa right now…alone…following her dream
Fear
Joseph’s vision wasn’t on the dream…it was on God
Your dream isn’t a pipe dream
He wants to change you life, your community
There’s something we’re doing that she can’t

Paul

Grace

Dream out loud
If we lived out our dreams, we could change the world

Paul

Psalm 40
I Adore You
Good To Me
Came To My Rescue
Good To Me chorus

Jon

Manoj and Alexis were approved to be adopters last Wednesday…3 Y.O. daughter to be named Ellis Todalu, 1 Y.O. son to be named Micah Gamachu

Fri Jan 23 6pm Joint fellowship with other churches
Journey of faith this week
Need volunteers

Sat training at kings harbor
1-4pm
Volunteered the church to sell soda/snacks

Talking about the church
Being “us”
Next week Grace will talk about how we all fit in
Plumb line???
Center in on what church is
Built of bodies, not bricks (Paul)
Satan has made it ok to “go” to church
But then we can leave
We need to be the church everywhere
Paul Duncan is a Titans fan
Home colors? Red, white and blue
Away colors? Same…touché
Tension about what the church says
Church shouldn’t be exclusive but inclusive
Don’t care what you’ve done wrong or right…just that you want to pursue God
Pro-life Christians bombing abortion clinic
Hate the sin not the sinners hating gays and lesbians
Pastors caught in infidelity
Televangelists sell holy bottles water and other trinkets
Settling for writing a check
Love and hate
Bless and curse
Do what we say, not what we do
Let’s take responsibility for the church’s decline
We take for granted asking for forgiveness
Let’s repent

Collective agreement to change is important
Trying to make something ours instead of His
We’re part of the solution
We love the church, we want to be part of the solution, we want to go down with the ship bailing water out
Acts 2:42-47
The early church was praying, growing, serving, etc
Talk to someone about the church, you’ll get a lot of things that the church is against
But what is the church for?
Head scratched
The Kingdom is inclusive
Jon likes Whole Foods, Matt likes The Dollar Store
You can feel God’s leading
Talked to the small business owner
At the end, Grace asks if they could pray for him and he said yes
We have opportunities to be The Kingdom, see the glass as half full
The early church focused on community
Tiny moments of church happening all around us…planting seeds around us
Peter (Cephas) was an unlikely candidate for a church planter
Peter shows leadership qualities for going there and giving it a chance
Who do they say I am? Who do you say I am? Peter confesses that You are the Christ the denies Him
Peter is a wonderful example of success/failure rollercoaster
If we’re going to be a redeeming presense in the community, there has to be some redemption
Matt used to work as a can sorter in Oregon
Peter learned from his mistakes
We have a chance to paint a picture of what the church is for, not what it’s against

Paul

Peter's Confession
You are the Christ, the promised one

Jon

Let’s be for the church
For people and their having a purpose in their life

Paul

Your Grace Is Enough
Everlasting God

Puppet show – Beattitudes

Jon

The Rock used to be at a Marriott hotel, body builders outside sometimes, etc
Shannon was worship leader
Jon and Matt Kennedy played bongos
Shari and Lori took over the Children’s Ministry when leader dropped out two weeks before launch
The Rock is 7 years old

Shari Milewski

Jon

Why the Marriott
Approached the school system (that’s what you do)…they kept saying no, even going so far as to say that you will never be at a school ever…now we have the keys and they have to ask us to use this facility
2002 they started praying Tuesday nights for the city
Walked every square inch of this community
Helping Jane DeGiacamo over a fence and she’s wondering why
Johnathon Smith offered their facility at Pacific Christian Center in 2003
They shat in a circle
Kirk Wheats said it’s not looking good with 12 people
Family received two houses in MB from a will, sold them and cut a check to The Rock
Then Shannon got cancer
And the administration said we can’t make it, we’re shutting it down
January 2009 is Shannon’s 5th year cancer-free
Feb 2004 hired Paul Duncan as worship leader

Paul Duncan

Easter 2004…not a hard time for a worship leader
Did it because there was a need, not out of commitment…wanted the spotlight
Started meeting people that he felt he could get behind
Felt his life wasn’t headed down a right path….choosing now over the kingdom
Questioned his morality
Occasionally turned down worship gigs because he wasn’t in a good place
God puts people in position before they’re ready…the position prepares the person
Met his wife here

Jon

Didn’t have the funds for a worship Leader
February 2004 brought Lori on
The Children’s ministry has grown incredibly
The Rock has taken a LOT of steps in faith
Matt and Grace were on staff at PCC
Things went awry and Matt and Grace got hired here
Then PCC kicked the church out
The week before that, Brian found a $50,000 check in the PO box from a family that didn’t even go here
Nicole Severe asked if we could meet at Pacific Elementary School and principle said yes
Started across the street in January 2006 while they were prepping this facility

Matt Kladnik

The story of the church is a love story
Youth ministry built on prayer
Used to be a cry for youth of the church, evolved into youth of the city

Jon

How did you end up here?
March 1st 2005 Carrie George
John Delgado is a passionate, fiery, Italin who pushed Rolling Hills to create a church in MB
Our heart is to be redemptive
Jeremiah 29
March 1st, 2009 Membership class