29|11 » Blog http://twentynine11.com Contagious Community. Passionate Worship. Radical Faith. Selfless Service. Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:57:38 +0000 en hourly 1 The Well {UNPLUGGED} – Friday, May 21st @ 7pm! http://twentynine11.com/2010/05/the-well-unplugged-coming-soon/ http://twentynine11.com/2010/05/the-well-unplugged-coming-soon/#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 21:14:04 +0000 royceyuen http://twentynine11.com/?p=591 {UNPLUGGED} is finally here! Join us for our inaugural meeting this Friday, May 21st at 7pm as we kick-off our brand spankin’ new weekly young adult fellowship gathering on Mercer Island. Worship, prayer, fellowship, food and more!  Don’t miss out…come catch the vision! Contact Royce (royce@lighthouse2001.org) for more info.

RSVP and let us know if you’re coming on Facebook.

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Please consider how you can help in relief efforts by giving monetarily. Lighthouse will be taking a special offering this Sunday during both services and partnering with World Vision to support Haiti disaster relief. You can also donate directly to World Vision here.

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More details can be found here: http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-010110-wahwong,0,1558686.story

]]> http://twentynine11.com/2010/01/praying-for-jason/feed/ 0 THE POWER OF ONE: The Well [12.05.09] Message Recap http://twentynine11.com/2009/12/the-power-of-one-the-well-120509-message-recap/ http://twentynine11.com/2009/12/the-power-of-one-the-well-120509-message-recap/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:55:19 +0000 maikusan http://twentynine11.com/?p=318 The Power of OneIn the final message of our 3 part series, “The Jesus Retrolution: A Fresh look at The Man, The Message and The Mission,” Royce preached on The Mission of Jesus.  If you’ve missed this one, you can grab the message in either audio or video format from our podcast on the iTunes store.

How many of us here, who consider ourselves ‘Christians,’ never realized that we have a God given mission in this life?  Many of us perhaps thought that after praying the salvation prayer, we’re all good, and now we can coast through life.  We just try to live a good life, try not to cuss too much, try not to drink too much, come to church on Sundays, and every once in a while crack open the bible and pray before your meals, but other than that, life is pretty much the same.  We pretty much do what we did before we got ’saved’ and try our best to adhere to this religion of Do’s and Don’ts.  But is this really what Christianity is about?

Ever wonder what Jesus meant, when He said, I came so that you can have life, and have it to the fullest?

Let’s look at 2 Corithians 5:14-21:

14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin [a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

The whole bible paints the redeeming story of God, all pointing to Jesus coming and paying the price for the sin of mankind, so that we can be reconciled back to God.  His Kingdom is a display of righteous people redeemed through the blood of the lamb.

God wasn’t satisfied with the current state in which man lived, he wasn’t satisfied with the current state of the world, so he sent Jesus.  Jesus came into a broken, messed up, fallen and sinful world to establish God’s Kingdom, and to bring hope, freedom, peace and healing.  Ultimately, He came to restore and to reconcile what was righteously God’s back to Him.  What did we do to deserve this? Nothing.  This is grace.

Through grace and faith, those who have been reconciled to God can now stand in the presence of God each day, and every day clothed with His righteousness, in an ongoing process of Him healing us of past wounds, restoring us back to Him so that we are not lacking anything.

Wouldn’t you want to share this good news with all the people you love and come in contact with?  There is still plenty of people today that have yet to be reconciled back to Jesus.  There is a lot of people out there that don’t even know that God has made this free gift available to them.

God is saying to us now that we have a purpose, and we have a mission. We were saved for a mission and our mission and Jesus’ mission are now one in the same; and in the same way that God used Jesus and his 12 disciples to change the world and reconcile the world back to himself, God wants to use each one of us to do the same.

We are called and sent by God. Would you believe it?

Is this overwhelming to you?  See, the good news is that not only did God entrust this extremely important mission to us but he doesn’t leave us by ourselves to accomplish this task.  He gave us the Holy Spirit.  Jesus lives in us now, empowering us, guiding us, strengthening us and protecting us.  This is big!  This means that not only as Christ’s ambassadors do we represent Jesus, but it also means that we have access to everything He has access to.

Will you accept this mission? God wants to use you, will you let him?

Get a copy of this powerful message from our podcast.  It will change your life.

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My name is Kevin Chou, and I serve on the core team for 29:11.  I’m a firm believer that there is a special call on this generation.  A generation that is sensitive to the Spirit, yet one of the more apathetic generations towards things of God.  At the heart of 29:11, we want to see a revival take place in the hearts of the 21-35 years-olds.  I believe that the Holy Spirit is moving in such a way that is equipping His people to do the impossible for Him.  When we do the impossible with dependence on the Holy Spirit, we glorify God in our lives because only He can perform such miracles.  Matthew 10:8 says “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons.  Freely you received, freely give.”  This commandment is still as relevant today as it ever was, and we have the authority in Jesus name to carry out what He’s commanded us to do.  When God speaks to us, and tells us to do something in His name, He’s already given us the ability to carry it out.  We just cannot doubt what He’s spoken to us.  Within 29:11, we believe in the power of the Holy Spirit, that He can perform such miracles through us.  We don’t claim to be healers, prophets, or anything like that, but we trust that the Holy Spirit is living and active, and that He chooses to use us because that is what brings Him glory.  I personally believe there is so much untapped potential within this generation to do amazing things for His Kingdom.  As Bill Johnson says it best, “we owe the world an encounter with God.”

]]> http://twentynine11.com/2009/11/generation-of-potentials/feed/ 0 The Well – Jesus Retrolution Part 2 [11.07.2009] http://twentynine11.com/2009/10/the-well-jesus-retrolution-part-2-11072009/ http://twentynine11.com/2009/10/the-well-jesus-retrolution-part-2-11072009/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:34:20 +0000 maikusan http://twentynine11.com/?p=252 8828_131678109757_508249757_2314079_864496_n

Mark your calendars.  The part 2 of The Jesus Retrolution is on November 7, 2009.  Royce will continue with his 3 part message The Jesus Retrolution at The Well.  Love to see you there and be sure to bring few friends.  You won’t want to miss this, it’ll be a life changing evening!

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Date & Time: 11/7/2009 7:00pm
Location: Phantom Lake Elementary School

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]]> http://twentynine11.com/2009/10/the-well-jesus-retrolution-part-2-11072009/feed/ 1 RETROSPECT [THE WELL 10.03.09] – A FRESH LOOK AT THE MAN http://twentynine11.com/2009/10/retrospect-the-well-100309-a-fresh-look-at-the-man/ http://twentynine11.com/2009/10/retrospect-the-well-100309-a-fresh-look-at-the-man/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:31:25 +0000 kevinchou http://twentynine11.com/?p=238 Part One

Part Two

Part Three

]]> http://twentynine11.com/2009/10/retrospect-the-well-100309-a-fresh-look-at-the-man/feed/ 1 Massive Monkees @ THE WELL [10.3.09] http://twentynine11.com/2009/10/massive-monkees-the-well-10309/ http://twentynine11.com/2009/10/massive-monkees-the-well-10309/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:33:28 +0000 royceyuen http://twentynine11.com/?p=231 In case you missed it, Massive Monkees blessed us with an awesome performance at THE WELL last Saturday. Check out the highlight clip below. Thanks again Massive!!!

]]> http://twentynine11.com/2009/10/massive-monkees-the-well-10309/feed/ 0 Are You Ready for THE JESUS RETROLUTION? http://twentynine11.com/2009/09/are-you-ready-for-the-jesus-retrolution/ http://twentynine11.com/2009/09/are-you-ready-for-the-jesus-retrolution/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:00:42 +0000 royceyuen http://twentynine11.com/?p=223 THE JESUS RETROLUTIONWelcome to THE JESUS RETROLUTION. The term “RETROLUTION” combines two words, retro and revolution. The word “retro” derives from the Latin prefix retro, meaning “backwards” or “in past times.” In today’s culture, it has become a popular term used to describe, denote or classify culturally outdated or aged trends, modes, or fashions, from the overall postmodern past, but have since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again. A “revolution” (from the Latin revolutio, “a turn around”) is a fundamental and often times radical change in ways of thinking and behaving that takes place in a relatively short period of time.

Simply put, Jesus was a revolutionary – All that He was, all that he embodied and everything that He stood for – radically changed the course of human history. And we believe that that same Jesus – who came to this world fully-God and fully-man to serve the needy, to heal the sick, to feed the poor, and to save the lost – is still as relevant today as He was 2000 years ago. Yet somewhere along the way, the message of Jesus and the cross has been distorted and watered down. And many so-called Christians today fail to live out everything that Jesus died for. We’ve missed the point. And we are no longer light in the darkness. We are no longer hope for the hopeless.

THE JESUS RETROLUTION is a movement to put a stop to this. It’s a movement that introduces no new ideas. Instead, it’s simply a movement that re-introduces Jesus of Nazareth 2000 years ago in His purest and most authentic form, a true revolutionary. It’s a movement that revisits the reality of our gospel at it’s core. And as we ourselves begin to recapture and reclaim the true meaning and the true essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ for our own lives, we will then become advocates and conduits of a world-changing social revolution that will rock our generation.

We believe our generation is hungry for change, and the time for change is now. We believe our generation is thirsty for the truth, and the moment for the truth is here. We believe our generation is desperate for Jesus, and the hour for Jesus is today.

THE JESUS RETROLUTION starts with you. Don’t just witness it…experience it. Join THE JESUS RETROLUTION today!

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Experience The Jesus Retrolution: a fresh look at the Man, the Message and the Mission. Join us at THE WELL on Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 7pm for a dynamic night of worship, testimony, teaching, music, fellowship and food as we introduce 29:11’s brand new theme and a whole slate of fun and exciting events. Phantom Lake Elementary School (1050 160th Ave SE Bellevue, WA).

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