We're going to do this because a hundred years from now the church needs to be powerful and impossible

to ignore. The church needs to be undeniable in our city of Los Angeles.

There are just too many people who come here

so gifted, so talented, so fragile.

I'm telling you, Los Angeles needs what we have to offer.

And we need to let our city know, we're not going anywhere.

We're here to stay.

If you're just joining us for the first time,

for the past two months, we've been traveling together through

the way of the warrior and we've been looking at each chapter to try to discover an

ancient path to inner peace. And each chapter is broken down into a code that if we take on as our

posture, we'll begin to win the war that is battling within us. And it seemed

almost perfect timing because it wasn't planned.

It just came together in just the right way that on Good Friday we actually stepped into Code

8, which simply says, the warrior stands in their pain.

I couldn't have asked for a more powerful and poignant metaphor

of what it means to stand in your pain

that on the day when Jesus died.

Because if anyone ever understood what it means

to have to stand in your pain and to realize

that it's on the other side of your pain that you'll find your greatness.

It's Jesus. And by the way, isn't it an odd thing that so oftentimes we turn to God in our pain hoping that he'll

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