Our second core value for Epicentre West LA is our love for the church. Come and listen to Pastor Chris's challenging and life-giving message on what it means to commit to your church family.

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Love for the Church

If you had to tell your story to the world, what would you say? What details would you include? And more importantly, why would the world care to listen? Sharing your testimony can often feel like shouting into the void, but there are reasons to do it - thoughtful, spiritual, and life-changing reasons. It can help temper our own entitledness, battle against false humility, and remind us of those sweet moments between God and ourselves. Listen as members of our church share their stories and as Kim Marshall, a member of our preaching team, exhorts truth through testimony.

We battle evil in prayer. We sustain joy in prayer. We find hope and strength in prayer. We find insight and clarity in prayer. We win the battles in prayer. Prayer is the power to persevere in the Mission. Listen as Pastor Chris Rattay explains through Acts 4 and how vital prayer is as a Christian and why we must pray.

On Prayer

Have you experienced, have you witnessed the risen Jesus? Has His Spirit filled you as he filled this community in Acts? We know that we are growing in love for Jesus as we are dying to fear what others think of our loyalty to Jesus. It is this spectrum that we are always moving on. On one end is a paralyzing fear of persecution, social abuse, hate speech, being stereotyped. But then Jesus forgives us, he heals us, he heals someone else through us and then we start moving away from fear into courage. Listen as Pastor Chris Rattay explains what living courageously and taking it on as a mission in our modern-day world.

Have Courage

The Purpose of Suffering

Three people, three different life stories, and three different experiences with the Holy Spirit, and none of the three had a typical "come-to-Christ" moment. If anything, to the outside person, it may seem like they were the least likely candidate for God to have picked. Listen as Kim Marshall speaks into each person's character and the hows and whys of God picking them and upending their lives to become a living testimony for His kingdom.

Even Him?

We have heard that word a lot this past year. 'Supremacy'. As people are trying to understand the chaos happening in our country, many people have pointed to the problem of white supremacy. What has been confusing is that that term carries different meanings depending on who is talking. But Jesus took Jewish zealots, Jewish extremists, and he took soldiers of the Roman oppressive regimen, if you keep reading, he converted them, transformed their sick thinking into the thinking of the kingdom of God. If Jesus had hope for and believed in these men, if Jesus persevered with them, while checking them, then we have no right to demonize them and give up ultimate hope for us and for those around us.

Living Out the Mission

Pt. 5

Messages from Epicentre West LA in Los Angeles, CA. Change LA, Change the Word through Real Hope, Real People, Real Change.

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