Epicenter.

For a couple of weeks, I have been following this guy on myspace. (No, not stalking). After requesting his friendship and doing the whole myspace procedures to become his friend, we started to communicate.

I found out that he is a churchplanter and is launching a church in the State of Arizona. Wow! I have hope. Hehe. I found someone who is doing things in a radical way.

I had the pleasure of talking with him over the weekend and it went great. We clicked and hit it off to an awesome converstaion (My girlfriend says that I need friends. Hehe).

Anyways, they will be launching their first services in a theater. Their name of the church is Epicenter. If you don't know the meaning of that word, look it up in the dictionary. I found out a couple of definitions for the word. I liked this one.
Epicenter:

"A point, directly above the true center of disturbance, from which the shock waves of an earthquake apparently radiate."

There will be a church (Epicenter) that will be the center of disturbance!
There will be a church (Epicenter) that will send shock waves to the people of Phoenix, Tempe, Scottsdale, Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler (Am I missing a city?) and let them know that Jesus still saves!
There will be a church (Epicenter) that will be the beginning point of an eartquake of love, grace and salvation!

You go Josh!
Can you tell I'm kind of excited? Hehe.

Epicenter will have their lauch services in the theatre starting on Janury 6th. They will be bringing sexy back! (Free publicity, Josh. Hehe).
For more info: Go here.

Be there.
I'm out.

SUNDAY THOUGHTS.

Today was a good day!

Church of Champions did not need me to go to Starting Point to preach their Sunday service... so I slept in. Wow! It felt good!
But I missed Starting Point... Really I did. After preaching there for 2 months, I get attached to the people, and I kind of missed them today.

I woke up fresh though and headed over to Iglesia de Campeones to preach for their spanish service. It was awesome! I totally felt confident... and I feel good about what was preached. Thanks to Jesus.
I really love the leadership of Pastor Rios Sr. He has been my pastor for the most part pf my life since I was a kid. I have learned so much from him. After the service, we all went out to Olive Garden and ate and talked. He talked about his early trials in ministry back in the 1980s. Awesome stories. And to think, that people are been blessed by the gifts that God has put in him is unbelievable.

He once told me something that has never left my mind when I think about ministry.
I take this to heart everytime that there is an oppportunity in ministry. Here it goes:
A Lawyer put his mistakes in Jail.
A Doctor puts his mistakes in the Grave.
A preacher puts his mistakes in Hell.

What a responsibility we have!

It takes 4 years to get a bachelor's.
It takes 6+ years to become an engineer.
It just takes someone to raise their hand and say, "Here I am. I will go." to take Jesus' message to people that are in need.
(OK. let me clarify something here. I am all for education, ok? That was not the point of the phrase. All I'm saying is that it's easier to become a preacher than... Never mind, think what you want. Hehe).

I loved it today, but there is some things brewing in my heart. Anyone who reads this... please stop reading for a moment and pray that Jesus will guide me towards His will.

Don't pray with a hidden message.
"Jesus, please make Tony realize that he is wrong."
Haha. No, do't pray like that.
Pray like this,
"Jesus, let your Will be done in Tony's life."

Thanks for your prayers.