Our Missions Philosophy:

When we started Paradox, we began with a dream. We knew that it was not enough to plant a church. We committed to starting a church planting movement. We believe that the Great Commission is not just a charge to a community, or a mission to a city, it is a global undertaking to change the world. So we wrote down our dream and began to pray that God would make it a reality. We said:

We dream of impacting culture internationally by launching multiple missional churches in cities around the world. We dream of providing a church home to 25,000 formerly unchurched people by launching new church plants.

Why this radical commitment to church planting? Because Churches in America are closing their doors. Barna Group researchers tell us that roughly 4,000 churches will close their doors this year and the number of unchurched people will continue to grow by 11 million per year. In a country that, at one time, was predominantly comprised of people of faith, there are now more than 75 million completely unchurched people in the United States and 10 million professing "born again" people who are churchless.

Beyond these pragmatics, there is also a biblical mandate to make disciples (Mattthew 28:19-20) and to equip leaders to reproduce themselves by teaching what they have come to know (2 Timothy 2:2). We believe that the church is God's program for changing the world in this era of history and we know that Christ has promised to build His church (Matthew 16:180. We desire to plant churches because we believe that it is the most effective way to evangelize the lost, equip the saints for the work of the ministry and reproduce leaders.

“Planting Pregnant"

Researchers and Church health experts have told us that if a church does not start another church within its first three years of existence, it will likely never plant a church. We wanted church planting to be part of Paradox’s DNA from the start. So we not only committed to giving 10% of all of our internal giving toward church planting, we also prayed before ever starting Paradox that God would let us plant a church within our first three years of existence. To do this, we knew that we would have to “birth” a church plant that was already “pregnant” with leadership and ready to launch out another team.

About The Brewers

Scott and Koni compliment each other as polar opposites. Scott is an outgoing natural leader with an enormous capacity for strategizing and executing on big picture items while Koni is a quiet, nurturing encourager. Scott earned a bachelors in Bible and Counseling and has done graduate work at a Reformed Theological Seminary in Atlanta. He was an associate pastor at Brainerd Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, TN for eight years before joining the staff of Crosspointe Community Church in Dallas. Scott has a strong ability to teach and a heart that beats for evangelism and discipleship.

The Brewers arrived in Los Angeles in June of 2007 and live in Playa Del Rey. Scott has been a catalyst for leadership development in the Paradox community; he is a dynamic community cultivator instilling passion and excitement in the hearts of people for Jesus Christ through relationships. Scott served as a teaching pastor at Paradox until leaving Los Angeles in August 2008 to start Paradox’s first church plant, Redeemer Church (www.redeemerchurch.com).