Welcome to Oak Springs Community Church!
Thanks for visiting our website! Oak Springs Community Church is a group of believers dedicated to loving God and the people in our lives, for His glory. Our mission is to get the good news of Jesus Christ into the lives of the people we live with, work with, play with, and interact with. These relational connections we have are the ‘live wires’ God uses to transform lives! We hope that your visit here will be inspiring.
We meet together on Sunday mornings for worship and study of God’s Word. We welcome you to venture out to Grand Isle Senior Apartment Homes in Murrieta each Sunday at 10 AM to experience God in worship and to study God’s Word with us as we equip one another with the truth.
To say, “our doors are always open” would be a little misleading, for our “doors” belong to the Grand Isles. But it is an understanding of Oak Springs’ that we are ‘open doors’ to the love of God and His grace by the sheer fact of His open arms to us. We’ve been embraced by our Heavenly Father and we are just one of many of His open doors to the world He loves and gave His only begotten Son to rescue. So, we welcome you with open arms!
Good Monday morning...
… and with this being the week that Divina moves to Las Vegas to live next door to her son and family, I thought it appropriate to share some thoughts on church leadership, as she has served Oak Springs as an elder. Our by-laws state that we have a leadership board of three deacons and three elders, loosely based on the New Testament definition of elders and deacons.
For the past 20+ years I have looked for people who are doing the work of leadership before asking them to serve in the role of elder or deacon. We have had many wonderful men and women serving the church over these years, and we have wonderful men and women leading the church today.
When seeking to replace an elder I look for people who are lovers of God’s Word. That is what every elder has been who has served in the role with me. They trust that God speaks to His people through His Word, that it is divinely inspired for teaching, correcting, rebuking and training the church in righteousness. In that sense, the expository teaching that I have embraced for our Sunday morning services suits them just fine!
While Sissy never served as an official leader (elder or deacon) at Oak Springs, one quality that kept coming up in our celebrating her life this past weekend was the role of “influencer.” Sissy was an influencer before there were YouTube influencers! Oak Springs’ leaders are influencers. I have been blessed to serve with people who influence others with their love and life exemplifying biblical values and Christlikeness.
In fact, Christlikeness is that quality of leadership that makes the most significant impact. The deeper qualities that Christlikeness demands cannot be faked but are lived. All of us are called to be Christlike by definition of being “Christian” but not all who call themselves Christian are committed to its demands. Jesus spent a lot of time considering who He would ask to learn from Him for the future mission of the church, and 11 out of the 12 lived out their calling. Judas did not.
Please pray for Oak Springs as we adjust our board of leadership. Pray for Divina as she moves and takes her Christlike heart and soul to a new location. I praise God for her leadership while here at Oak Springs Community Church and trust He will bless His people where she is going.
For His glory,
Pastor Mike