Wednesday night we began our SpringLife emphasis and today we continued it. We have continued our theme of salvation that we started last Sunday and continued on Wednesday night. We looked at the idea that Anyone Who Calls on the Name of the Lord will Be Saved. We opened the service with a reading from Joel 2. We sang “Come, Now is the Time to Worship,” “We Will Glorify,” and a wonderful new hymn “How Deep the Father’s Love for Us.” As part of our worship we also sang “Redeemed” and “Are You Washed In the Blood.” You can see where we were going with all of this. God gave me a great message to preach. Check the previous post for the link to that. Our invitation song was “There Is A Redeemer.” The Spirit was with us as we worshiped this morning.

This evening we continued our study of “There’s No I In Church.” This book is having quite an impact on me. I’m really beginning to understand how important the church is in changing our lives as believers. So far we’ve looked at koinonia, prayer, and are currently looking at scripture in the church. These disciplines work together to change us. Our culture has programmed us that it’s all about me, but when it come to the Bride of Christ — the church, it is about us (the church) being transformed into Christlikeness. I’m looking forward to the next few weeks of study.