A Look Back to Last Sunday...
A Look Back to Last Sunday . . .
This past weekend, July 25-27, was a significant milestone in the life of Wellspring Church. Two very seasoned and competent consultants from NL Moore and Associates spent three days immersing themselves in the life and ethos of Wellspring. These two gifted consultants interviewed each of our staff, met with the Elders, met with the newly formed Search Committee, met with three different focus groups of the congregation, and then spent Sunday morning entering into worship with our congregation. It was an important weekend.
And, I think the Lord was speaking to all of us at Wellspring during the worship time on Sunday morning. From the very beginning of the service, there was an unusual anointing on the worship. Many people came freely and uninvited to the altar to press in to what the Lord was doing in their hearts. Then the worship team began to lead us in a worship song entitled, "New Wine." (You can access that song in the link below.) During the singing of that song, I felt an unusual stirring in my spirit. I had a deep sense that God was speaking to us--to all of us, not just individually, but corporately. Then Julie-Ann Toalston began to pick up the same theme and led us through the refrain while changing the lyrics from first-person singular to first-person plural . . . "make us a vessel, make us an offering, make us whatever you want us to be."
This is the invitation of the Lord to Wellspring in this season--to yield our individual selves and desires and aspirations to the Lord during this season of transition in our church. This is a season of surrender and a season of yielding--and it can lead to a season of new wine and new power for Wellspring Church. Old things will need to be let go of, so that new things can be received and embraced. What an offer!!
I must say that that moment during worship was absolutely unique and wonderful in my experience. The Lord was speaking, to all of us corporately, in the lyrics of a song! I was very encouraged by that wonderful expression of the Lord's faithfulness and encouragement to us. CLICK HERE to enter into the song through the recording of Hillsong.
God is up to something, Wellspring! I am encouraged!
-Pastor Rick
This past weekend, July 25-27, was a significant milestone in the life of Wellspring Church. Two very seasoned and competent consultants from NL Moore and Associates spent three days immersing themselves in the life and ethos of Wellspring. These two gifted consultants interviewed each of our staff, met with the Elders, met with the newly formed Search Committee, met with three different focus groups of the congregation, and then spent Sunday morning entering into worship with our congregation. It was an important weekend.
And, I think the Lord was speaking to all of us at Wellspring during the worship time on Sunday morning. From the very beginning of the service, there was an unusual anointing on the worship. Many people came freely and uninvited to the altar to press in to what the Lord was doing in their hearts. Then the worship team began to lead us in a worship song entitled, "New Wine." (You can access that song in the link below.) During the singing of that song, I felt an unusual stirring in my spirit. I had a deep sense that God was speaking to us--to all of us, not just individually, but corporately. Then Julie-Ann Toalston began to pick up the same theme and led us through the refrain while changing the lyrics from first-person singular to first-person plural . . . "make us a vessel, make us an offering, make us whatever you want us to be."
This is the invitation of the Lord to Wellspring in this season--to yield our individual selves and desires and aspirations to the Lord during this season of transition in our church. This is a season of surrender and a season of yielding--and it can lead to a season of new wine and new power for Wellspring Church. Old things will need to be let go of, so that new things can be received and embraced. What an offer!!
I must say that that moment during worship was absolutely unique and wonderful in my experience. The Lord was speaking, to all of us corporately, in the lyrics of a song! I was very encouraged by that wonderful expression of the Lord's faithfulness and encouragement to us. CLICK HERE to enter into the song through the recording of Hillsong.
God is up to something, Wellspring! I am encouraged!
-Pastor Rick