Sovereignty and Sensitivity Part Four (My Multi-Site Journey)

After our fellowship voted to move forward with the River Road multi-site and we began some outreaches there, we sought to be sensitive to God’s further direction. Remember: The title of these last few blogs is “Sovereignty and Sensitivity.” The basic point is that God has been and is leading us according to His absolute sovereignty, and we are called to follow His leadership with sensitivity.

This overall point manifested itself to us in two ways. First, since the donut outreaches went so well, we thought an after-school tutoring ministry would be great for the River Road campus. A couple of teachers in our fellowship did an excellent job outlining a plan, and we presented it to the fellowship in order to gauge the possibility of moving forward on this front. However, various aspects of the idea were not coming together, so we sensed that the timing was simply not quite right.

Second, we wanted the Lord to show us who would be able to become the “point person” on our staff to provide leadership for the River Road campus. At first, we had a general sense that our youth pastor at the time would be the most natural person for the position, but as he prayed about the opportunity, he did not think God was leading him toward the campus pastor role at River Road. He did, however, suggest to another one of our staff members that he should consider the opportunity. Ironically, at first, this other staff member did not think much about the opportunity, but one day in his prayer-time, he sensed a clear direction from God to transition into the role.

As you can see from the two examples above, the title, “Sovereignty and Sensitivity,” is appropriate for these blogs. It conveys the idea that God is leading according to His perfect will, timing, and power, and our call is to walk in step with His Spirit as we seek to follow Him with sensivitity.