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When your future is unclear or uncertain, it's easy to feel discouraged or disheartened and feel like God is absent. And when you feel like God is absent, it's easy to forget all of the important things He's done, said, and revealed in your life. 

That's why we're instructed throughout all of Scripture to "remember" – we're told to remember all that God has done in the past, who He's called us to be, and He reminds us that He's not forgotten about us.

These are just some of the things our Lead Pastor, Ricky, has been learning and shares in this week's service at Meta Church.

Just in time for back-to-school, we're strarting a new "mini series" called "What I'm Learning" from Pastors Ricky and Krista Ortiz.

Your relationship with Jesus was never meant to be stagnant or idle. In fact, it's supposed to be exact opposite! Through the Holy Spirit in you, God wants to continue to lead you, shape you, and help you grow into the person and child of God He envisioned from the beginning.

In this vulnerable and candid, 3-week series, Pastors Ricky and Krista will offer some of the things they've been learning in their relationship with God recently as a means of encouraging and inspiring you to reflect on what you're hearing and learning from God as well.

What I'm Learning

Don't You Forget

We often learn more from the things we get wrong than we do from the things we get right. In this first message from our 

series, Pastor Ricky Ortiz shares two of the things he's gotten wrong in his relationship with God during the last few months.

Fortunately, God's – out of His grace and His mercy – doesn't just highlight what we got wrong, but He leads us to a correct understanding so we can walk more closely with Him.

I Was Wrong

Despite the difficulties and challenges we've faced, God is calling each of us into something greater and more...radical! But He's not just calling us into something radical, He has actually called us to be a "radical church"! In this message from Freedom Church's Pastor Chris Cooke, he shares with us 5 pursuits of a radical church.

If you spent any portion of your adolescence in the 80s or 90s, then you remember how much you loved creating your Summer Mixtape on those old cassette tapes! Each song and every artist offered something you believed or longed for. Those Summer Mixtapes were as much about how you wanted to feel as it was about who you let speak into your life or for your life.

That’s why we’re bringing back the Summer Mixtape idea starting this Sunday at Meta Church! Throughout the Summer, we’ll have different speakers sharing different messages of hope, courage, faith, perseverance, optimism, and resilience that will serve as our “Summer anthems” as we move ahead.

Summer Mixtape

5 Pursuits of a Radical Church

There comes a time when each person must decide what they will turn from and what they will turn to. These steps aren't always easy, but they're absolutely essential to experience the abundance and fruitfulness of God in our lives. Join us at Meta Church today as we receive this powerful word from Pastor Karin Cooke from Freedom Church.

Turning Point

As a church community, we've spent 14 weeks hearing, learning about, and committing to following the way of Jesus. There has been transformation and life-change, and many of us have experienced our faith being strengthened through this process.

This has all been great, but the question still remains: Why does following the way of Jesus actually matter? What difference does it make? And why is it so vital for Christians to live and be like Christ?

The answer to those questions is what we'll be learning about in this week's message from Meta Church!

The first followers of Jesus were simply known as those who followed "the way." That is, the way of Jesus. This "way" was simple, but it was different. It didn't need labels, or titles, or even mass gatherings and services. But it was powerful! And it was radical!

And this "way" was filled with people who were committed to becoming like Christ and living like Christ in their world. And because they chose to follow the way of Jesus, lives were transformed, cities and regions were changed, and the world has never been the same!

In this new series from Meta Church, Pastors Ricky and Krista Ortiz are taking us back to our roots to help us (re)discover the way of Jesus so we can learn what it means to follow Jesus, become like Jesus, and live like Jesus in our world today.

The Way Of Jesus

This Is Why

In the days following Jesus' life, the first followers of Jesus lived lives that were so remarkably different than the cultural norm that the way of Jesus became irresistible. People who were nothing like Jesus, liked Jesus. And Jesus liked spending much of His time with people who were nothing like Him.

Unfortunately, this is not always the way it is with Christianity and the way of Jesus today. Somehow, Christianity has lost its appeal and attractiveness in our current society. But it's not because Christianity, or Jesus, has become less relevant or less needed. In fact, the very things that made early Christianity so appealing are things we can and should still see in our faith today. 

So what made this way so different? Why did it stand out? And what can we learn from them? That's what Pastor Ricky Ortiz outlines for us in today's message.

What's Different?

Do you remember that game "Simon Says" from when you were a kid? It's a simple game, based solely on the participant's ability to follow the instructions given. As children, we loved playing and following these instructions, but as adults we become less inclined to be obedient to the things we know we ought to do.

In this week's message from Meta Church, Ricky Ortiz talks about the necessity of "obedience" in following the way of Jesus. Jesus gave instructions in Matt. 28:20 that His disciples are to be obedient to what He says and if we desire to become like Christ then it's important we listen to what He says.

Simon Says

We live in a world where it's so easy to focus on our selves... We become, and even celebrate, being self-serving, self-preserving, and self-seeking.

But when it comes to following the way of Jesus, none of those aspects of "self" were things Jesus did nor were they things He said we should aspire toward. Instead, Jesus made it clear that it shouldn't be ourselves, but rather how we love, serve, and care for others. In Jesus' words, "It's not about me."

INAM

We live in a world full of distractions, messages, and hurriedness – all working together to keep us from following the way of Jesus and becoming more like Him. So how do we combat the busyness and the noise?

This message from Meta Church answers that question precisely and introduces us to a practice we can apply to become more like Christ.