going to another church

This post is just to clarify something that's been on my mind for a while now and I'm still getting asked about it, so I hope this will help a little.

I've been going to a different church for about 5 weeks now, and really liking it a lot. It's called Spectrum Church, located in Chula Vista. It's not that the one I've been going to, South Coast Community Church is bad or something bad happened, but that I've changed (the classic "it's not you -it's me" :-P ).

I've been around a lot of different denominations growing up, and also more on fire for God, or less at different times too. And maybe in the last year or so, I've been increasingly feeling like I'm missing a lot of the manifestations and guidance of the Spirit during the services that I've been use to growing up with. I know that SouthCoast leadership believes in all that, but I've been missing the real hands-on application that I've been "participating in" at other churches, such as Spectrum (I also occasionally visit the bi-weekly Saturday evening services at The Awakening, a church plant of Bethel Church in Redding, CA).

More and more it's become important to me to allow the Holy Spirit to do His thing, and not only believe in the supernatural, but also allow it to happen during services, and speaking in tongues etc., something I've been missing for too long. I don't want to sound bashful or critical of SouthCoast, especially not here in this open web space, but I do want to clarify what's going on. I know that supernatural manifestations and the like are not everyone's cup of tea (in my opinion, it should be though :-)), but it increasingly is in my life right now.

As I was explaining to a friend just the other day, it's very interesting that in just this short period of time, I feel like my life has spiritually accelerated, and even if things are not always looking great in the natural, I feel like things are getting better on a spiritual level at an exponential rate. For the first time in a long time, I actually feel like I'm perfectly aligned with the will of God for my life, and in the right place at the right time. All the trials and changes I have to go through are just part of becoming more precisely aligned.

Not only is it graduation time in 3 weeks, but metamorphosis time, like a former caterpillar breaking out of its cocoon as a butterfly, I'm breaking out of a spiritual cocoon and getting ready to fly! Come and fly with me!