Sold Out Discipling Movement

Super Bowl Sunday

Laverne Wightman goes on to glory after she was restored just three months earlier!

“Well sports fans, what a beautiful day it is for a Super Bowl!” exclaimed Dan Patrick, the sports announcer for the game.

This was, without doubt, the most anticipated game of all time, as the heavily favored Dark Angels were to take on the Saints.

Dan went on, “The Dark Angels, after being kicked out of the HFC (Heaven’s Football Conference) for misconduct have been dominating the WFC (Worldly Football Conference) all year long.”

“Well, this should be a good one!” said Dan, “Let’s get to the opening toss.”

A handful of players from both teams arrive at center field for the coin toss. Chests puffed out, chins up, helmets in hand, while each teams players, side-by-side, are careful not to break eye contact with the opposing team. The head official for the game steps forward and starts rifling through his standard issued New International Version white referee pants, trying to find the coin for the toss.

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2012 Prayer Goals

“Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do EVEN GREATER THINGS than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name…” (John 14:11-13)

Zak Najor drumming with DJ and Kacie as they sing "Spiritual Rehab In The OC"

The theme chosen for our 2012 year is Even Greater Things. Jesus promised His disciples that they would not only SEE, but also DO even greater things than Him. This is not to say that the things Jesus did were not great. No disciple would ever turn water into wine, calm storms with a stern rebuke, or duplicate the feeding of the 5,000 ever again; although some Bible Talk leaders have attempted to get close from time to time. Jesus was simply saying that He was leaving, and therefor the quantity of things that were going to be accomplished through the disciples would be even greater than the quantity of things that were accomplished by Jesus while He was with them. In short, what was to come would be greater than what was past because God’s Kingdom was “forcefully advancing.” (Matthew 11:12)

As God’s Kingdom continues to grow some two thousand years later – around the world and in San Diego – it is amazing to think that so does the greatness of things to come! As with Jesus, this is not to say that there haven’t already been some great things that have been done. In fact, since moving to San Diego in mid-march of last year, is has been astonishing to see just how greatly the church has changed and grown even amidst some of the challenging circumstances laid before it. And so, before we look on to “even greater things,” let’s briefly look back on some of the GREAT highlights of 2011:

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