SERIES: Church. Different.
DATE: December 22, 2019
TOPIC: Found Favor - Believe

Where does our hope from from? Where do we find peace? What makes us joyful? How do we experience love? Where is Christ in all of this? What do we do when we forget? What happens when we face times in our lives where we feel hopeless; empty of faith and full of doubt? Zechariah, Mary, and the Shepherds were looking for the hope from God they desperately needed and they FOUND FAVOR with God and BELIEVED what was told to them by the angel, and this brought great hope and joy and gladness and celebration to their lives. How can the gospel bring you hope for you?

SERIES: Church. Different.
DATE: December 15, 2019
TOPIC: Authentic Community

Everyone has Value.
Everyone has a Story.
Everyone’s Story Matters.

This Sunday we take a look at how Jesus showed us the power of stories to transform people through taking a look at His time with the Samaritan Woman. Through Jesus, we learn how our stories matter, like George Bailey in the movie "It's A Wonderful Life" discovered the power of his own story through his encounter with the angel Clarence.

SERIES: Church. Different.
DATE: December 8, 2019
TOPIC: Mid Circle; Part 2

What does "winning" look like for you? What does "winning" look like for us here at SHIFT? When we say "this is the REASON we exist", what do we mean and how do relationships and community get us there? We need to remember the power of TEAM. Jesus came proclaiming a powerful gospel message, and IMMEDIATELY put together a team of people to share this gospel life with Him. This is the method we were given in the Church experience abundant life and faith

SERIES: Church. Different.
DATE: December 1, 2019
TOPIC: Mid Circle; Part 1

Say YES to the Adventure of relationships here at SHIFT! WHY?! WHY should I join an @Group? WHY should I engage in these relationships? We answer some of your questions and more in this week's teaching on MID CIRCLE @Group relationships.

SERIES: Church. Different.
DATE: November 24 2019
TOPIC: Big Circle

In the SHIFT plan, we have a Map for our adventure that shows the trajectory for each one of us to follow. BIG Circle (Crowd); MID Circle (@Group - Small Group); SMALL Circle (One-On-One personal Relationship). As Jesus Himself had a very strong crowd ministry, this week, Alan starts to work through the Map by talking about SHIFT church's Crowd ministry, the BIG CIRCLE.

SERIES: Church. Different.
DATE: November 17, 2019
TOPIC: Seeing Is Believing

Do you believe that God loves you? Do you want others to believe in God's love for them? The world around us is looking for tangible PROOF of God and it starts with YOU having a tangible experience with the love of God first.

SERIES: Church. Different.
DATE: November 10, 2019
TOPIC: Mandate

SHIFT your thinking to SHIFT your life's trajectory, so you can change your destiny (future). We need HOPE, so this Sunday Alan talked about who we are, what we are trying to do, and how we're doing it here at SHIFT church through our Mandate and how you can say YES to the Adventure God has for you!

SERIES: Church. Different.
DATE: November 3, 2019
TOPIC: Loving Caring

Alan begins to take us step by step through the Vision of the church, starting with the heart of the message, You Matter! and Love Others. We want to cultivate a culture where each person matters, including you! And where you are a part of helping others be taken care of and being healthy as well. The beginning of this vision is love. Caring, loving, listening, and focusing our attention to each other as a way to both love others and be taken care of ourselves. This is the heart of Jesus' ministry, this is what Jesus died and rose to redeem and build, this is the community life that caused the early church to become a worldwide movement. People caring for each other through the power of Christ through His people

SERIES: Church. Different.
DATE: October 27, 2019
TOPIC: Community Launch

SHIFT church is Officially Launching to the community! Come and experience Church. Different. Come and check out what's in it for you by joining the adventure we call "church".

SERIES: Church. Different.
DATE: October 22, 2019
TOPIC: Cultural Trajectory

Our Values keeps us on track with where God wants us to go and how He wants us to get there. As we read Matthew 16, hear how Jesus helps keep His mission on its intentional trajectory toward accomplishing His goal - salvation for sins of the world!

SERIES: Church. Different.
DATE: October 13, 2019
TOPIC: Cultural Synergy

As Nehemiah pointed out the problem of the demolished walls of Jerusalem and cast a vision of rebuilding and revitalizing the life of God's people, so we catch a vision of what it looks like for all of us to imagine God's better future for His church rather than doing what we've always done and getting what we've always got, to SHIFT our thinking and dare to BE and DO Church.

SERIES: Church. Different.
DATE: October 6, 2019
TOPIC: Culture SHIFT

Hear a story describing the need to SHIFT from being "a monetized system that capitalizes off of death" to being "an investment syndicate that invests in life."

SERIES: Church. Different.
DATE: September 22, 2019
TOPIC: Intro to Community

Jesus desires for us to have close, authentic, personal relationships. 1) What KIND of relationships? 2) Our relationships show the world the truth of the gospel