Tauren Wells on New Church: ‘I’m Not Crazy, I’m Called’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Christian artist Tauren Wells is opening up about what he hopes to achieve with his soon-to-be-launched Whitestone Church.
“I get asked constantly now, ‘when did you feel called to start a church?’ or ‘will you actually be the Pastor? Others have asked, ‘are you crazy?! why would you do this?’” Wells wrote in an Instagram caption. “I’ve wrestled with all that…being misunderstood or my motives or sanity being questioned. All I can come back with is, I’m not crazy, I’m called.”
Wells explained in the accompanying video that “this dream to minister and to plant a church was already being cultivated in my heart.”
“Our heart, our goal, our mission is to help people discover their God-authored identity and a whole-hearted relationship with Jesus,” he said of his hopes for Whitestone Church. “We want them growing with God, living in freedom, discovering themselves, and being the difference.”
Wells and his wife, Lorna, announced their plans for Whitestone earlier this year.
“[We] are setting out on the adventure of a lifetime, packing up our lives in Houston, and following our calling to love, serve, and inspire the city and surrounding communities of north Austin, Texas,” the couple wrote in an Instagram post.
They continued, “Through the planting of a vibrant, life-giving, community of faith, Church of Whitestone, we are assuming our calling as Lead Pastors of the church that God placed in our heart more than 10 years ago. The vision is clear, ‘helping people discover their God-authored identity through whole hearted relationship with Jesus’ and the time is now.”
Wells spoke about the process of “putting together a great team” with Christian Headlines.
“We’re gonna be the lead pastors, [and] we’re gonna have an amazing team,” he said. “Everything God does best, He does through teams. And so we’re putting together a great team. It’s just another lane on the highway.”
Wells continued, “I feel like the music has been the tip of the spear or the arrowhead. And I feel like the church is going to be the balance – the feather on the back – that we’re going to continue to move throughout the world to change people’s lives.”
Movieguide® previously reported on the couple’s plans for Whitestone Church:
Christian musician Tauren Wells and wife Lorna are celebrating the 10-year culmination of their dream to establish their own church.
“I was practicing piano,” Wells recalled when their dream began. “And a professor came into my school and said, ‘Tauren, are you called to preach?’ I said, ‘Yes, Sir, I think I am.’ He said, ‘Don’t get too wrapped up in the music.’ I now understand that the full assignment has not been songwriting and performing; the rest of the essay is still yet to be written.”
He continued, “There’s a moment where I saw the verse in Revelation 2:17 that said ‘To the one who overcomes, I will give a white stone with the name engraved on it that only they know,’ and that word ‘white stone’ leapt off the page and it was when I was really dreaming about this.”
A few years later, he and Lorna were traveling through Austin, Texas, when the couple received a sign.
“We were driving up to where our family vacations and we crossed Whitestone Blvd., and we were in the car with her cousin Clayton and we were driving past this rock quarry and he pointed to the rock quarry and he said that’s where they dig out all of the Texas limestone,” the musician explained. “And that limestone is called white stone, he said. Georgetown is built on a white. Austin is built on white stone. Liberty Hill is built on white stone…We believe that your life is built on a white stone.”
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