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Feb
10

Can you give God a tithe of your life?

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@jabocobo1984 posted this comment on twitter tonight.  ”are you willing to give a tenth of your life to be a missionary to another nation? if your answer is YES! let’s have a cup of coffee, on me”

(Pastor Jonathan Bocobo is our short term missions director for our Asian churches)

This tweet really got my wife and I thinking and talking as we enjoyed our date night.  Although we have no plans of leaving Hawaii anytime soon, I love this idea.

Can we give God a tithe of our lives?

If He gave us on average 80 years of life, can we give Him just 8.  Can we give God 8 years?  What would happen if we said ok Lord I give you 8 years of my life?  Send me anywhere you need me and I will do whatever you ask me to do.

In the midst of our busy lives this is a radical thought.

Would you be willing to pray this prayer????

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Feb
09

gbck download: PG wk 1

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gearing up for our weekly big meeting day here at gbck.  thought I would download some of the stuff that has been going on around here.

-essentials is moving forward. feed back has been good so far. really praying that we have at least 15 people complete this first round of essentials.  love the fact that people are growing closer to Jesus by reading His word.

-working on the launch of our encounter weekend.  super excited about this.  God help us make strong, healthy disciples.

-having tres chere around the leadership table has been great.  seriously stepping up our game in worship, specials, and media.

-simple church discussion over the past few weeks has been mind blowing.

-preached last weekend.  thought it went pretty good.  always an honor to preach the gospel.

-launched PG:  Parental Guidance series this past weekend.  Nancy Young did an outstanding job with the word. We got some cool stuff planned for this series.  you seriously dont want to miss it.

-bought a 4 ft x 15 ft banner that hangs as a back drop and visual reminder the big idea behind this sermon series.  love the look.

-really making some good ground on upcoming sermon series and let me tell you i am seriously excited about what we have coming up in the next few months.

-even nailing down weekly big ideas so that our creative team can go for it.  by the way we are forming our creative team so if you are interested let me know.

well thats it for now.  there is seriously so much more, but some stuff I just cant share yet.  got to get to these meetings as we continue to move forward.

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Feb
06

PG: Parental Guidance

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Super excited about our Parental Guidance series that we will be kicking off tomorrow morning.

There is no doubt that Kapolei is full of young families.  Parenting is definitely a hot topic as many young parents work hard to raise their children well.  Our goal is to provide a compelling and comfortable environment where people can discover what the bible has to say about parenting.

Over the course of the next 4 weeks we will looking at 4 big ideas relating to parenting with a bunch of special guests to help us learn.  Here is an overview:

February 7:  Good Foundations
-special guest Dr Nancy Young.

February 14:  Letting Go
-special guest Pastor Camille Omo.  Former youth pastor at GBC Pearlside.  Camille has also raised 5 children whom are all grown adults as a single parent.

February 21:  Communication
-featuring Dr Hale Akamine in our special “rock the doc” segment.  Dr Hale will facilitate the toughest questions our congregation has to offer.

February 28:  Discipline
-featuring Dr Hale Akamine in our special “rock the doc” segment.  Dr Hale will facilitate the toughest questions our congregation has to offer.

Believing for God to do some unreal stuff over the course of the next month.  Check out this short trailer as a preview to our upcoming PG series.

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Feb
05

first roll

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A few weeks ago Benaiah rolled over for the first time.  He kind of has a hard time getting is hand out from under his body and still cant roll himself back onto his back.  The simple act of rolling over might seem small, but I was seriously pumped when I seen this happen.

Here is a vid of the action:

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Jan
29

diaper gene pride

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Babies go through a lot of diapers. I remember when we first brought Benaiah home we would go through 10-15 diapers a day.

We bought a diaper gene to hold all of the dirty diapers and surprisingly found that this device worked pretty well. For those of you that don’t know the diaper gene is a container that is designed to keep the dirty diaper smell enclosed. For the most part this product works pretty well.

As the diaper gene begins to fill though the smell starts to seep out. Without warning the stench begins to fill the room and if that bag is not changed the dozens of diapers quickly begin to take over the room causing a serious odor to do some damage to anyone who comes near.

The dirty diapers is kind of like pride. It is in us, but as it continues to grow the pride in us releases a stench that affects those around us. People all around us can see and smell the pride in our lives. The only way to deal with pride is to smell it early before the stench takes over the room.

Tonight I will be talking to our youth about pride and unpacking a few warning scents that we can identify to keep ourselves from becoming stink with pride.

xchange * 7pm * chun wah kam * Jan 29 * Friday

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Jan
26

the gratitude challenge

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the wife decided to participate in the gratitude challenge as a part of her 7 days of prayer and fasing.  I thought I would try it out.  we first heard about this through our good friend Samantha’s blog.

Here is the assignment for day 1:  Use the alphabet as a fun and quick format for taking an inventory and making your list of things your are grateful for.  Share this list with your social network.

Aiea:  I was born and raised in this small city in Hawaii and have always had a burden to see the gospel bring transformation

Benaiah:  I love my son.

Cruz’s:  My inlaws have been supportive and one of our biggest fans.  miss them a bunch

Dad: love my dad

Every Nation: love the people that God has called me to build his kingdom with

Freedom:  grateful for those who make it possible for me to live in a free country

Grace Bible Kapolei: I get to work with some seriously smart people

Home: gotta love how God hooked us up with our own home.

Iphone: yes pretty materialistic, but still grateful

Jesus

Kissing my wife

Liz Tokushige

Mother: My mom is the most generous, caring, kind hearted person that I know.

Nice people: gotta love it when you are trying to get stuff done and a nice person helps you out.

Ocean: love all the ocean gives us

Philippines: kase pinoy ako

Queens staff: the folks who helped us welcome Benaiah into our family

Relaxing with the wifey on our date nights

Surfing and soccer: my 2 favorite hobbies

Tokushige’s:  love the fam

Underwear: imagine life without underwear. might be a little uncomfortable

Visiting fam and friends in other countries: haven’t traveled in a while, but grateful in advance

Wife who is a proverbs 31 woman.

Xerox machines: seriously could not think of a x word. still grateful for xerox machines though

Yes: what Liz said when I asked her to marry me

Zippers: without zippers life for guys would be just a little more inconvenient

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Jan
25

gbck download: fresh start wk4

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another great week at gbck.  always amazed to be blessed with the job that I have.  here is the latest from gbck.

-very productive tuesday meetings.

-super excited for the start of our parental guidance series starting NEXT week.  this week we have a series break.  gonna be talking about what to do when we face uncertain times.

-great meeting with family counseling guru Hale Akamine who will be hosting a question and answer segment in the final 2 weeks of our parenting series.

-TC (worship director) joined us for some of our meetings.  excited about some of the stuff we have brewing in our music department.

-steve murrell was in town this week.  always good to here steve’s thoughts on discipleship and leadership.  seeing steve makes me miss manila though.

-Rosarios (operations directors) had their 1st week off in 3 years this week. really missed them, but love the idea that we value people more than task.

-Catans, Baitlons and a few others stepped up big time to provide this much deserved break to some very deserving leaders.

-Mike did a fantastic job with the word.  solid close to a great series.

-a bunch of new faces at church this week.  gotta love that.  2nd service starting fill out.  not enough space is definitely good problem

-day 2 of our seek week (7 days of prayer and fasting) happening now.  hate fasting, love Jesus.  love out ways hate.

-God is definitely starting to do some great stuff at gbck.

-really believing that our seek week will help us focus in on what He wants us to do in 2010.

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Jan
20

too many choices

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A few nights ago we went to dinner with the family at one of our favorite resturaunts in Aiea.  

I have been coming here since I was a kid, and since I am not much of try something new kind of guy I knew exactly what I wanted without looking at the menu.

Liz on the other hand had been here once before and seemed to have been a little lost.  The menu had a million and 1 choices on it, and all of these choices made decision making pretty tuff.  Granted the food all looked good, but the menu was so complex she didn’t know what to do.

Sometimes we make church like this.  We have ministries, activities, outreaches, events, groups, meetings, teams, community projects and a bunch of other stuff packed into our church.  Granted most of this stuff is good stuff, but people are lost when they enter our church world.

Of all the stuff that a church does I think the MOST IMPORTANT action of the church is discipleship.  Our job is to help people get closer to Jesus.  Everything else is secondary.  Our job is to lay out a simple and clear process that people can follow that will help them build and develop their relationship with Jesus.

Here is our process at GBCK:
1.  Develop my faith
2.  Deepen my connections
3.  Devote my life

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Jan
18

gbck download: fresh start wk3

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havent posted one of these for a while. been a little busy with the move.

here are some of the stuff that has been happening recently:

-launched our essentials course on Jan 10. we have a total of 76 people participating in this. 26 of these are newer believers being established in their faith.  making disciples never gets old.

-slight a bump in our morning service attendances. praying that we see this trend continue.

-some great transitions happening within our leadership team that will help us get to the next level

-ongoing discussion about Christ-centered preaching has really begun to change the way I see the bible and preaching.

-loving our fresh start series. here are some thoughts from this past week:
quitting turning to myself for answers is the beginning of salvation

religion is mans attempt to get to God

light comes from an outsides source

the gospel drives us upward to Jesus and outward to others

-starting Jan 25 we will kick of 7 days of prayer and fasting…… hating fasting but loving seeking Jesus…. believing for great stuff in 2010, none of which can happen without HIM.

-PG: Parental Guidance series starts in February. Some unreal guests slated to help us become the parents God wants us to be.

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Jan
16

Jesus’ Authority

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Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Matthew 28:18-19

Jesus was given all authority. This means that no authority was left for anyone else. Not for the demons, diseases, or people.

Demons and diseases: There is no terminal illness, fear, or addiction that is more powerful than Jesus. If we believe in Jesus we should also believe that this stuff is no match for the power of Jesus.

People: Jesus has every right to determine our plans, use our lives, or alter the path that our life is on. In a discipleship context we must be sure that we DO NOT assume the role of Jesus and begin to plan the lives of others.

Our job is to listen, ask questions, sometimes provide an opinion, but ultimately people need to hear from Jesus and make a decision.

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