Frontier Church

Relating in Deep Unity as a Mature Family, Ajay Samuel

Ajay Samuel is on the senior leadership of the Pasadena International House of Prayer (where we meet on Sunday mornings). Ajay carries a unique combination of humor and scriptural depth, always imparting a relatable and inspiring lifestyle of intimacy with the Lord.

Living in Babylon: Thriving in LA as Disciples in Exile // Daniel 2

There may be no more crucial theme ignored in the American church than the subject of exile... As we increasingly live in a post-Christian city + culture, exile gives us the vision of hope to thrive despite circumstances.Prepare to be convicted... and filled with a consuming hope to thrive as a "Creative Minority"."Becoming a Creative Minority paints a compelling picture of the way the church is called to participate in these challenging and demanding times - seeking neither to control nor abandon the world, but to love it to new life through redemptive participation. In applying the idea of a Creative Minority to a Christian community, I describe it as follows: A Creative Minority is a Christian community in a web of stubbornly loyal relationships, knotted together in a living network of persons who are committed to practicing the way of Jesus together for the renewal of the world." -Jon Tyson

Faithful Under Fire // Daniel 3

Last Sunday Christian launched a new series on "Living in Babylon: Thriving in LA as Disciples in Exile"...As we increasingly live in a post-Christian city + culture, exile gives us the vision of hope to thrive despite circumstances. Last week we talked about how exile is "our second chance world"... that we all have realities where our first choice, our hopes, dreams, plans ("what should have been") have not happened... whether justly or not, and exile is the invitation to thrive, but with the cost of losing our first choice dreams.Israel learned in exile that the dream of an empire shaking Kingdom was waiting for them, they just had to lose their Jerusalem dream to receive it. Even the limitations of exile become a kind of liberation, as God frees us from the prison of our own small ambitions.This message addresses the cultural idol of a false pluralism + false tolerance, and when we need to "draw a line in the sand" to live faithfully under fire, even when the outcomes (our security, safety, jobs, relationships) are uncertain.