Move Us Into Action...

There is a song on Tim Hughes , Holding Nothing Back project called "God of Justice". It is a very powerful song! I've been talking about this song for while now. We closed a series of messages back in the summer with it. I have to admit… it was a very convicting song to sing. You know... sometimes it is just way too easy to stand on stage and sing songs like this without letting it change US. We move on to the next song…. little disturbed and uncomfortable... but not ready to "make a change".

Well... THIS TIME a song has inspired our NewPointe musicians and singers to do something about it. The phrase from this song that has really grabbed our hearts is this: "Keep us from just singing... move us into ACTION." It is so easy for us, as worship leaders, musicians and singers to come together and do what comes "natural" to us... make music. We love it. We were created to do it. We print our charts, mark up our music, restring our guitars, rehearse to get everything “just right”. Then on Sunday mornings we come together, sound check, run-through and SING. It's just what we do... right? We are so good at serving within our comfort zone.

James 1:27 says that "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." WOW! How good are we at doing THAT? There's nothing in there about Marshall amps... well-crafted worship songs... or even ProPresenter. God is pleased when we are meeting the needs of his kids… those folks who cannot provide for themselves.

That's why this Saturday morning... the music teams from all 3 of our NewPointe Church campuses will be meeting at the Dover campus... and then going out to serve at the home of a widow in our community who is in need of house repair, cleaning, yard work, maybe a meal and some conversation and prayer. We are going to step out of our comfort zone and into a worship experience that we believe will please God. This will be an on-going initiative for our teams. We will be going out into the community on a quarterly basis. I am so excited to see what God wants to do in and through us as a team… as we practice being the hands and feet of Christ. How can we just sing about it? “We must go…”.