Aaron Jayne grew up in a shattered home in North Texas and then headed to Phoenix before taking a massive leap of faith and moving to inner-city Los Angeles to help plant a church that eventually became the Dream Center. 16 years later, he moved to North County San Diego and discovered something he didn't expect: no matter where you go, people really aren't that different. In this conversation, we talk about Aaron's experiences in LA, brokenness in its many forms, what money can hide, and why Aaron still believes Christians should dream bigger about what God can do through a life pointed toward other people.

Show Notes

Aaron Jayne's story has taken him through two places that, on the surface, couldn't look much more different.

He grew up in Phoenix in a shattered home and eventually took a massive leap of faith, moving to inner-city Los Angeles to be part of a church plant. That ministry eventually became the Los Angeles Dream Center—an organization committed to meeting people in the middle of addiction, homelessness, poverty, hunger, and other very real needs.

Years later, Aaron left Los Angeles and came to coastal North County San Diego to pastor a church.

Different city. Different socioeconomic reality. Different kinds of problems.

But Aaron discovered that people aren't actually that different.

People are broken. People are lonely. Marriages struggle. Families fall apart. People carry addiction, fear, shame, and pain. In an affluent community, money can sometimes make those things easier to hide—but it doesn't make them disappear.

In this conversation, Aaron shares stories from his own childhood, the early days of what became the Dream Center, his transition from inner-city Los Angeles to North County San Diego, and what decades of ministry have taught him about people.

And eventually the conversation turns toward dreaming.

What might happen if Christians actually believed God was bigger than the limitations we place on Him? What if we were willing to dream about things we couldn't accomplish on our own—not dreams centered on ourselves, but dreams pointed toward the flourishing of other people?

Aaron's final challenge is pretty simple:

Dream bigger.

Not because we're capable of doing extraordinary things on our own.

But because God is bigger than we think.

And He may be able to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine.