Now What?

My heart goes out to all my brothers and sisters of Wellspring who are not a part of this corruption and cult practices. So many are genuinely trying to seek God. So many are trying to worship God like they always have, and they don’t want to see any more drama or trouble.  I feel bad for all the singers and musicians and those who do special music and love what they do. They are trying their best to seek God and to minister in music to God’s people, and what is being shared here will not inviolate what you are trying to do, but don’t let the well-intentioned music ministry of Wellspring blind you to the other corrupt elements that are at work in the church.  

 Most everyone at Wellspring just wants to trust that everything will be all right, but they have misplaced their trust. Our trust should be in God and in what He is doing in our lives.  God raises up one and humbles another, and you can see His hand in all of these things.

 These things may be hard to see.  That’s why Jesus warned us, “You will know them by their fruits.”  You cannot evaluate something or someone by its good doctrine or effective teaching and preaching skills or even by good worship. Good, Spirit-led worship does not cancel out what goes on behind the scenes, but rather shows the hypocrisy of living like this, while keeping up a good appearance of teaching and worship and testimony.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.” Matthew 23:25-28

 I expect that this current cycle of corruption, coercion, and shame must run its course. The current work must see this through, and there is likely nothing that can be done about it, apart from a divine act from God.  But the Lord is in charge and will care for every one of His sheep, regardless of what the coming years bring.  Keep close to the Lord, close to His Word, and pray that all of this will come fully to light and a time of repentance and humility and healing can bring you and your family and friends back to what God called you to be and to do all along. Look out for one another in love and show mercy to each other. You will need each other in the years to come. 

 “And I will make mere lads their princes, and capricious children will rule over them. And the people will be oppressed, each one by another, and each one by his neighbor; the youth will storm against the elder, and the inferior against the honorable.  When a man lays hold of his brother in his father’s house, saying, ‘You have a cloak, you shall be our ruler, and these ruins will be under your charge.’” Isaiah 3:4-6