2011-New Beginnings!!!
January 24, 2011
Wow 2010 was an amazing year of accomplishment!!! I was able to hit every single Goal I set except for one!!! God is so good and faithful and able to empower us to finish well.
Things i accomplished in 2010:
-Finish my A.A. in Arts & Humanities at Palomar College
-This then Upgraded my Associates in Theology from Calvary Chapel Bible College to a Bachelors in Biblical Studies.
-I went to Spain for the first time in my life.
- I got to go to IBIZA for the first time.
– while there i got to live a dream and actually was given a chance to DJ at a workers dive Bar called VIVA. (This was totally God opening a door for me. I was only on the Island for 5 days. Most people who get to DJ are usually living on the island trying to work as DJs promoters and all that encompasses that part of the entertainment industry on the island)
– I also made a few new DJ friends from the UK (Leeds and Sheffield). Because of this i almost got a second gig at a place called vodka club which is bigger then a Dive bar but not quite a ginormous Discoteca!!! But I wasn’t able to play because i had to come back stateside. But to be asked to come back from some really cool people was an amazing feeling and i praise God for moving in the way he did!!!
-i also got to meet a team called 24-7 who are missionaries that bring people out to the island on short term trips to just serve and love on the kids and adults who are out there to party!!! It is so awesome to see people with the same heart as mine being a huge light in a place that can feel so dark that most Christians would just cast it off and say no way!!! But the people there are getting in the mud and connecting with people at their level and truly showing the Love of Christ!!!
-I experienced and learn what true community looks like and the potential we have to evangelize the lost if we just shut up and Loved on people well while being present in the community that God Has Called us to!!!!
“And He said to him, ” ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’”This is the great and foremost commandment.”The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ “On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”
Mathew 22:37-40
After such an amazing year there is so much that is on my heart that can be wrapped up in this verse!!! God has shown me that No matter where we are in the world whether at home or out in a “foreign” land that the mission field is right in front of you. Our mission is to “Make Disciples”. The way this begins is through relationship. This is starting to become a life lesson for me for the past 4 years now. When a person is truly in love with the God with all of their Heart, all of their soul and all of their mind, there is truly nothing in this world that can stop them from doing the will of the one they Love!!! Along with this a person who is in this love with God naturally begins to be enabled to Love their neighbor as them self.
Recently my pastor, Miles McPherson, of the Rock Church in San Diego was talking about this very topic of how we can be a “Do Something” church. He said:
1. Count and assess your community’s need.
2. Walk to the locations of your community’s need.
3. Ask how you can help your community’s need.
4. Respond to your community’s need with love.
The Do Something Church – Part 1
When we love our Neighbor this is the beginning of evangelism, This is the Gospel of Jesus Christ put into action!!!
“It is remarkable that the only church history we have is the “Acts of the apostles”. The Holy Spirit has not preserved their sermons.They were very good ones, better then we shall ever preach, but still the Holy Spirit has only taken care of their “acts”. We have no books of the resolutions of the apostles; when we hold our church meetings we record our minutes and resolutions, but the Holy Spirit only puts down the “acts”. Our Act Should be such as to bear recording, for recorded they will be. We must live as under the more immediate eye of God, and as in the blaze of the great all revealing day.“
– Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students (complete and unabridged), Ch1 p.18
With all this said my heart is truly to still go back to Europe and reach out there with the Gospel through love, community and Dance Music, but God has called me to stay Home and be equipped and pour out into my community here, in San Diego. I am excited for 2011 and all the Good works that God has prepared for this year!!!
My goals for this year:
-To Love God with ALL my Heart, ALL my Soul, and ALL my Mind.
-To Love my Community well (1825, the rock church, local Electronic Dance Music Community)
- Be a man after God’s own Heart
-Uniquely spread the pervasive hope of the Gospel to my community.
-Produce and have signed 5 tracks or remixes.
I know God is able to do all of these things in my life. If you think about me please keep me in your prayers. There is a crown in heaven waiting for you because you choose to be a part of this work even in what you may think is a simple prayer and might not do anything significant, there is power in your prayers. We are in this work together for the glory of God!!! Be blessed and be prepared to see God work in ways beyond all comprehension and understanding!!!
