Written in Our Flesh

At the Carlson’s House!

WEDNESDAY JULY 4TH starting at 4pm!

We’ll fire up the grill…the pool is open…so bring swimsuits, badminton, frisbees, whatever…something put on the grill and a side dish to share!!

If you need directions just shoot an email over to us angelacarlson@mindspring.com or dave@bucktownpictures.com

Our address:
7117 Lyric Lane
Franklin, TN 37064
615-799-9880

Hope to see you here!!

Please rsvp if you can so we have an idea of how many to expect!

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The Wellspring

Some of you may be wondering about The Wellspring and for that we are indeed thankful!  We have hit rough patches in our start up as a fledgling community including health concerns for some key members, space issues, scheduling conflicts…things of this nature.  Rest assured that we are committed to exploring what it means to be the Body of Christ as a Community.

At this time we are planning times of Fellowship and Prayer for the summer months including, but not limited to, Art Night (show and tell for grown ups), Swimmin and Grillin at the Carlson’s house, Sunday Night Sings (times to gather and worship in song as a community)…and so on.

If you have an idea for a fellowship that you’d like to share or would like to open your home to a small group for prayer one sunday evening this summer please let us know!  (angelacarlson@doxasoma.com) We plan to revisit our weekly meetings this fall.

I leave you with this quote from Gerhard Lohfink.  It is one that Dave (Carlson) has kept hanging in his office the last few years and it speaks volumes about our hopes for The Wellspring:

“It can only be that God begins in a small way, at one single place in the world. There must be a place, visible, tangible, where the salvation of the world can begin: that is, where the world becomes what it is supposed to be according to God’s plan. Beginning at that place, the new thing can spread abroad, but not through persuasion, not through indoctrination, not through violence. Everyone must have the opportunity to come and see.

All must have the chance to behold and test this new thing. Then, if they want to, they can allow themselves to be drawn into the history of salvation that God is creating. Only in that way can their freedom be preserved. What drives them to the new thing cannot be force, not even moral pressure, but only the fascination of a world that is changed.

Clearly, this change in the world must begin in human beings, but not all by their seeking through heroic effort to make themselves the locus of the new, altered world; rather, it begins when they listen to God, open themselves to God and allow God to act.”

Bless you all this week-

The Wellspring Leadership