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Photo by Norman Jean Roy for Details Magazine September 2010

Can’t say I would ever imagine one of my favorite men’s magazines picking up a story concerning church. I was nervous at first to open up the front cover. I obviously looked around to see if anyone was watching. I mean, it is Zac Efron on the cover. He is not exactly one of those guys you look at and say, “Ya, Zac seems like a fly dude.”  You don’t just pick up the magazine when someone that – good – looking is on it as a male reader. Rule #1 to being a closet homosexual. Buying and reading anything containing Zac Efron.

Zac will catch more flack because he is better looking than 99.987% of the people on this planet. Hence, he will fall into the “you may be gay for looking at him” category. Sorry Zac, you’re a cool cat but you know how it is. Fortunately, you’re so good looking and still young that your fan base may stick with you for another 4 years. Until they release a new, hotter version of Zac. The new Zac will be all the goodness of Zac except Hollywood will add a regenerated chromosome. This new chromosome will contain enough badboy in him to outshine the original Zac. This will in turn create a “War upon Zac Efron”. Good Zac vs Bad Zac.

Right up front I have to applause Anna David for writing such a great piece concerning “The New Faces of Faith”. Anna is a brilliant writer and beautiful which now makes sense why she hit up Reality LA church. We all know beautiful people beget beautiful people. Does that theory count as the “Law of Attraction?” Not quite sure but Anna delivered a hit concerning beautiful people, the church and its driving force in Los Angeles.

What I love about this story is the idea that this type of Christian Faith is front page worthy. Everything Reality LA church is doing is making an impact in a unique way with tastemaker media. Tim Chaddick has been busting his tail for over 4 years in Los Angeles building a boutique style church. A church that speaks the language of this unique culture. A church communicating the black and white message of the gospel in Los Angeles. A church that has hundreds of what we would call “beautiful people” sitting in chairs listening to a pastor. A church attracting the attention of Conde’ Nast (publisher of Details Magazine).

WAKE UP PEOPLE! CONDE’ NAST IS IN BUSINESS OF SELLING STORIES, AND THE CHURCH IS ONE IN WHICH PEOPLE ARE LISTENING. GET TO WORK AND GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY IN GOD’S BUSINESS, THE CHURCH.

What we are reading here people is that The Church Has Influence. The church is intriguing enough for Details Magazine to cover Reality LA and run a tag line on the front cover of their magazine (The Hottest Pickup Spot in Hollywood is…Church). The church attracts “beautiful people” who are wanting to know this God they heard about as a kid but stopped believing because it was lifeless.  The church is a driving force garnering attention from the largest media outlets. The church has more than enough influence and power to change the course of a nation.

I salute Pastor Tim Chaddick for continuing his relentless pursuit of communicating God’s power and gospel. Of course now many people I am certain are jumping on the Tim Chaddick bandwagon. Pray and believe for greater things for Tim. A friend of mine who started a great shoe company in Los Angeles uses this tag line for his brand and I can’t help not to use it. Javier, thanks in advance for a brilliant mind. He says it like this, “True stars keep on shining.” I believe this for Reality LA and the many other incredible houses of worship in Los Angeles.

Here are my recommendations for places to collide into God in Los Angeles. As many of you may or may not know, I spent 5 years in Los Angeles and began my collision with Christ at the Dream Center in Los Angeles.

Matthew Barnett: Dream Center Los Angeles
Philip Wagner: Oasis LA
Mel Ayres: In His Presence
Tim Chaddick: Reality LA
Erwin Mcmanus: Mosaic LA

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