2010...A Year of World Change

Im sitting in the room next to the PURE management teams as they strategically plan and dream for each of their areas of leadership...and all I can say is that 2010 is going to be an unreal roller coaster of growth and spiritual maturity for PURE and the SoCal Movement...

How crazy are we dreaming?? Were dreaming a full worship center this year:) hope you'll dream with us and praying for you to jump on board...were going for 'World Change' this year...living//PC is our anthem and the souls of our generation is the prize...were not looking back!

get this down...youre gonna be hearin lots of it...

"Every Wednesday night hundreds of passionate Young Adults unite in worship, believing for you to experience hope, redemption, love, and a second chance."

This Christmas Who/What Are We Worshiping?

Wed was another powerful night...6 people committed to Jesus for the first time!!! Week after week Jesus, God, and Holy Spirit show up in power moving our hearts to intimate relationship with Him, either for the first time, or deeper as followers of Him!

Being a follow...that whole idea started my head thinking...I long to follow Jesus with all of my heart, but what else am I following? What else am I investing my heart in? In a sense what else do I worship??

I cant help but think that today we call celebs 'Idols' and its a perfect word...Idols are objects of worship, and we worship people today. Michale Rozel from Potter's Field Ministries says "Created things should never be worshiped, worship the Creator of all things." My question today for myself...'Shane what else to do you worship that is created and not the Creator?'

My passion for this Advent season, brutal honesty with myself about what position Jesus really does take in my life...Is He everything to me?

Love Came Down...Jesus, God incarnate, in the form of a baby.

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Black X-mas...Why its the Most Controversial Yet and Why I am Giving Up Christmas

"Love will make it right just hold on..."

There are 2 reactions derived from the face of the 'Black x-mas' series...
1) its fascinating and Tim Burton'esque' and you like it
or
2) its revolting, irreverent and depressing

Either way tonight we jump into this idea of "Why Jesus isn't OK with X-ma$" and trust me...its going to be controversial...why? you will have to come and see :) But I am dying to share where this series was born from...deep in my heart. So...

Growing up I was constantly disturbed by the x-mas thing. I always wondered, whats the point of Christmas if 'Christ' is gone? My mom would politely remind me that people were just shortening it...then one day I started my first campaign:) the 'Cmas' campaign...everything I write or do surrounding Christmas I abbreviate 'Cmas'. In some way to me it brings some reverence to a very irreverent time in our culture.

That is what 'Black X-mas' is all about...making Christmas worth celebrating...How? Come tonight and we will make a choice to make Christmas worth celebrating...

My first step toward making it worth celebrating...

'I'm giving up Christmas this year, and asking everyone I know that would buy me or give me something for Christmas to give it to someone who needs...someone who wont eat tomorrow, or wont have shoes or clothes to keep warm. I dont need anything, and I need to not want anything...this is my anthem, I Will do it for the least of these. Not because I am good, but because I truly believe that this is what Jesus would want on His birthday...in fact i know it is...'


Started off with ""Love will make it right just hold on..." Truth is He already did...will we let Him do it through us?

See ya tonight...

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Adam Lambert...and Why Passionate Worship Tonight

We are all clearly aware of Adam Lambert's recent flamboyant outburst on the AMA's...and while it was a nice publicity stunt in line with Madonna and Brittany's infamous kiss on the same stage some years back...it has to make you wonder...what is the truth about our soul as a generation?

My favorite thought is the one that follows the previous one. Its the reality that there are hundreds that choose to be a source of light and HOPE, not just on Wed but in every aspect of life...who? YOU...PURE//you are believing for your family, friends, co-workers, sorority brothers and sisters to find Jesus, and you are living it out. Every week you bring your friends to hear Jesus' hope and each and every week they are giving their hearts and lives to HIM!! Then you sit and allow yourselves to be challenged by Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit to reach for new heights of Passionate Worship and World Change...

While the world sits and giggles at the depravity of our generation and gawks at Tiger Woods, your out, boots on the ground, showing and loving people through HOPE and second chances...you are living//PC

I love you all and I am more than proud, I am humbled to worship with some of the most passionate people on the planet every wed...tonight is no exception...call/text/Facebook/Tweet everyone you know...get them in a place to hear HOPE...

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PURE//Service Video 11.25.09

'Blac X-Mas' Series Launch, Huge week

PURE...what a huge week!! I was blown away by how many of you came out Thanksgiving day to WOL's new CityLink facility to serve the poor. You have huge hearts and you are willing to give yourselves away to people you don't know who may never be able to thank you...Thanks again to all of you who came out Thursday and Friday for the 2nd Annual 'Black Friday' outreach...

This Wednesday we launch into looking deep into the reality of Christmas today...what Jesus would say about it...and how we can make Christmas in SoCal and around the world different...

Here's another sneak peek at Wed...

Give thanks...take a risk, love a stranger...where to serve this weekend

PURE..love your hearts and i am totally moved by your passionate worship tonight...Wanna give you all the details for the service opportunities this weekend!!!

• Thanksgiving Outreach: Thur (tom) 7:30am meet @ WOL (Worship Center Parking Lot) or 8am @ CityLink (16779 Spring St. Fontana, CA 92335): Set up and serving 300 homeless and needy @ WOL's new outreach home in downtown Fontana!!
• Black Fri Outreach: Meet @ WOL 8am..hitting up Victoria Gardens, Montclair Plaza, and Ont Mills...bringing HOPE in the chaos...ditch shoppin wth 150 million americans and spread hope instead!!

See ya in a few hours!!

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Every Wed...Tears

Every Wednesday for the last 3 weeks I have sat down at my desk to look through my notes, prepare my heart, and make sure I know what God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit want for that night of Passionate World Change...

And every week I sit at my desk and the same thought rolls through my mind like a movie on a continuous reel, an iTunes track on continuous play...and I loose it...He loves me, me!! A broken failure of a Pastor who once cursed God and told Him to never ask me to do ministry...and He LOVES you, You (fill in the blank with your name), with your story of failure and 2nd chance...

the reel runs and runs...its message "Jesus knew your failures before you did…and He chose to look at you, smile, say I love you, and die…"

I hope you too are moved to passionate tears of HOPE and Joy...Get passionate...He is...See ya tonight

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What if Jesus meant all that stuff??

Shane Claiborne (rad name, just had to throw that out there) wrote a book, he has written several now, that challenged my approach to theology and ministry 'The Irresistible Revolution'...did it change my beliefs, no, but it did challenge me in the way I chose to live out this Christian life...He is a captivating person, not because of who he is, but because of what he does...

Can the same be said about each of us??? God you deserve it make us people who are remembered by what we did out of LOVE for you...Not who we are...

Shane recently wrote an article for Esquire mag after he was highlighted as a '2009 Best and Brightest'...its worth reading, its a great reminder of 'What if Jesus meant all that stuff...' (<- Click for article)

your thoughts?

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Coming Soon...

Tonight PC's unite...for world change through Thanksgiving

"Every Wednesday night hundreds of Young Adults unite in worship, believing that you can experience hope, redemption, love, and a second chance."

Tonight will be no exception...bring your friends, family, whoever is in town...come worship the the God of all creation, the one due all our praise, thanksgiving, and every second we have of this life...

Passionate and carried away? Maybe but is it possible to be too Passionate about a God who is this Crazy about us??? I cant help but think and know that Jesus is carried away with His passion for us...God is radically in LOVE with each of us and gave His Son to prove that and the Holy Spirit is sitting with you wherever you are right now longing to bring HOPE, peace, and comfort to our hearts...Now that is a passionate God...

Grab everyone you know get here for passionate worship and radical thanksgiving...

"Im laying down my life cuz I know what YOURE worth..." -Phil Wickham

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PURE//Service Video 11.11.09