December 2015
Have you ever believed something to be true only to discover later that it was false? This is a dangerous thing when it comes to where you will spend eternity! This issue deals with salvation and Bible myths. In it, we decipher, according to the Word, fact from fiction.
Have you ever believed something to be true only to discover later that it was false? This is a dangerous thing when it comes to where you will spend eternity! This issue deals with salvation and Bible myths. In it, we decipher, according to the Word, fact from fiction.
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ship a certain sound.” There’s<br />
no certain way to worship. The<br />
Bible says just to make a joyful<br />
noise. There’s no specific style<br />
or genre, so we said “no rules.”<br />
They started coming up with all<br />
these types of melodies.<br />
One thing led to another and<br />
we just started doing what was<br />
in front of us. People started<br />
hearing about what we were<br />
doing and took an interest. They<br />
started coming to this little city,<br />
Modesto, to hear the band. We<br />
didn’t think anything of it. We<br />
thought we were just doing<br />
something normal. So we continued<br />
to write, and we put out<br />
a self-titled album, Worth Dying<br />
For, and a few other albums.<br />
I think it was a couple of years,<br />
maybe six or seven years in.<br />
We were in our shuttle bus. We<br />
were traveling all over. How he<br />
described it, it’s like the sound<br />
was sucked out of the bus, and<br />
it’s like he heard God say, “You’re<br />
going to start a church with this<br />
band. And all of a sudden the<br />
sound came back in, and specifically<br />
one more time it happened<br />
where the sound shut off. “In the<br />
next five years, you’re going to<br />
start a church with this band.”<br />
Now he didn’t say anything to<br />
me for a long time about this.<br />
He was a little nervous about it.<br />
It was a big deal—moving my life<br />
to LA, starting a church. We’re<br />
doing good. We’re comfortable<br />
where we’re at. I eventually<br />
came around. I wanted to hear<br />
God for myself. I remember the<br />
specific moment that God spoke<br />
to me as well. I was watching<br />
this documentary from this other<br />
church. And all I saw were people’s<br />
faces, people from every<br />
walk of life, every background,<br />
every culture, every race. And<br />
I’m not an emotional person, but<br />
something hit me and I felt the<br />
power of God and I started falling.<br />
I looked at my husband<br />
and I said, “When are going to<br />
do this, I’m ready to go do it.”<br />
All he needed was for me to<br />
hear. We took a team of about<br />
25 people and we felt strongly<br />
to go to Los Angeles because<br />
it’s a place with all these upcoming<br />
world changers, artists,<br />
actors, producers, people that<br />
are changing the world. It’s the<br />
place to change culture. LA is<br />
such a huge, impactful place<br />
and we felt maybe we could<br />
shift the people there. We left<br />
everything. We left people. We<br />
left our home. We had what we<br />
needed to be comfortable but<br />
God wanted us to move out of<br />
our comfort zone. He resources<br />
the call, but he doesn’t always<br />
give you the resources before<br />
the call, and that’s what I had to<br />
learn. Do I wait for everything to<br />
be lined up? No, we just have to<br />
go and say I am going to believe,<br />
have faith and trust God. We<br />
didn’t have paychecks. We said<br />
that maybe we would have to<br />
live off savings. We had to find<br />
a house. We had resistance,<br />
but resistance doesn’t mean that<br />
God’s not in it. I’ve found that if<br />
anything, resistance means God<br />
is in it because the enemy knows<br />
the power of what’s inside of<br />
you. And if it’s released, you can<br />
give birth to it, it will impact the<br />
world. There’s a lot of pressure,<br />
and resistance, and opposition<br />
and pushback with a dream or<br />
vision. So if anything, that made<br />
us go okay, we are about to birth<br />
something great here, and so we<br />
continued to push through any<br />
obstacles.<br />
Where did you get the name for<br />
the church and the band?<br />
We found a quote from A.W.<br />
Tozer that says “A scared world<br />
needs a fearless church.” I John<br />
4:18 says: Perfect love casts<br />
out fear. I think we would all<br />
say there’s a need for a fearless<br />
church in the world that we are<br />
in, with such fear and such craziness.<br />
Our world is just falling<br />
apart at the seams. If you just<br />
turn on the news for one minute,<br />
you’ll see that. God says we can<br />
release so much love that we can<br />
raise fearless people. Fear won’t<br />
win. Fear, when it speaks to me,<br />
I won’t let fear win or destroy<br />
me. I won’t let fear defeat me<br />
anymore. It doesn’t mean that<br />
we won’t have fear but that fear<br />
won’t win when it comes.<br />
We have loved on this city like<br />
never before. We’ve tried to.<br />
We come here for the dreamers<br />
and those that have dreams that<br />
have been crushed. We want<br />
our church to be like a ‘dream<br />
factory’ where you can come in<br />
and find hope again. We say,<br />
“God didn’t come to make bad<br />
people good, He came to make<br />
dead people live.” And that’s<br />
what we tell people every week.<br />
We want you to live.<br />
We’re in a club called Exchange<br />
LA and it’s actually a night club.<br />
II think it’s so cool, because it<br />
breaks the mold for what people<br />
think church has to be. But we<br />
are the church. Some people<br />
think church has to be in a certain<br />
building, and when we tell<br />
them it’s in a club, we get more<br />
people who might never set foot<br />
in a church. People who were<br />
dancing on Friday night for all
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