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Equipping people to live wholeheartedly! Present. Surrendered. Overflowing.
“Becoming Wholehearted” | The Wholehearted Way Podcast

Norcross, Georgia

What began as a single weekend retreat became the Battle for the Heart – a leadership development process for pastoral teams and lay leaders that includes retreats (and follow-through experiences). Since then, Wellspring events have been held for churches across different denominations and in places as far away as Switzerland, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Today, Wellspring Group provides teaching, coaching, and materials for these events as well as consulting with church and business leaders. The men and women of Wellspring share a great vision for the Body of Christ and are generously giving of themselves and their resources to see this vision fulfilled.

10/23/2026

We’ve been busy filming Season Two of The Wholehearted Way Podcast!!!

We can’t wait to share this with you! This season will drop November 17th:)

10/22/2026

6 Elements of Change.

Why is it so hard to make change last? Most of us have tried to change and experienced the pain of failing. So we've prayed harder, re-committed, started fresh more times than we can count. We've done the Bible studies, made the resolutions, had the breakthrough conversations. And somewhere along the way, when the change didn't hold, we started to wonder if something was wrong with us.

But what if the problem isn’t with you but with your approach? Significant, sustained, fundamental change doesn't happen by accident or by just trying harder. It requires a proven path. For more than 20 years, Wellspring Group’s Battle for the Heart has provided thousands of men and women with that kind of path: six specific elements working together that help real change take root.

Over the next six weeks we're going to walk through each element. Not as a formula, because real change resists formulas, but as a framework for understanding why the life you were made for can feel so difficult to reach, and what it actually takes to get there.

Truth. Energy. A Path. Support. Time. Mystery.

These are the six elements of change. We're glad you're here for it.

— Wellspring Group | wellspringgroup.org

10/19/2026

Registration for the January Battle for Your Heart Retreat is now open!!!

To register now, visit wellspringgroup.org today!

10/17/2026

Lies We Believe: “I am what I have done.”

Most of us carry our history with us in ways we don't always recognize. The worst things we've done quietly follow us, shaping how we see ourselves long after the moment has passed. But so do the best things. We can become just as trapped by our accomplishments as by our failures, building an identity out of what we've produced, what we've achieved, what others have affirmed about us. Either way the result is the same: our sense of who we are shifts with every outcome. We are only as good, or as worthy, as our last performance.

But outcomes change. Accomplishments fade. Failures accumulate. And an identity built on what we have done is always one bad decision or one disappointing season away from collapsing.

Wanting to succeed, to be recognized for what we've done isn't a bad thing. It points us to the deep desires God placed in us to draw us to him and into his Larger Story. The problem is when we mistakenly look to who our track record says we are rather than who God says we are.

Thankfully, God doesn't define us by our history. He stamped us at creation with our true identity: a beloved image bearer. Then He reaffirmed that identity when He sent His only Son to redeem us and restore us to relationship.

2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us that if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come. The old has gone and the new is here. That's not just a theological position. It's a personal invitation to stop letting what we have done have the final word on who we are. Our identity is rooted in whose we are, not in what we have done.

Is there an identity you are holding on to that you may need to let go of?

— Wellspring Group | wellspringgroup.org

10/16/2026

Have you ever finished a sermon, a book, or a small group season and thought — that was good. And still felt like something was missing?

Not because anything was wrong with it. But because what you were longing for went deeper than information or inspiration could reach.There is a place for that longing to go.

Battle for the Heart is a nine-month journey for people who are ready to stop circling the surface and go somewhere real — with God, with themselves, and with a small team of people willing to make the same commitment.

The next retreat begins in January. If something in you is leaning toward this, that's worth paying attention to.

To learn more, visit wellspringgroup.org today!

10/14/2026

Wholeheartedness Is Not…Avoiding.

Avoiding makes a certain kind of sense. The things we tend to avoid are usually painful, uncomfortable, or complicated. And staying away from things that hurt is not irrational, it can actually be a very understandable response to the experiences that have shaped us. The problem isn't that we learned to avoid certain things. The problem is when avoidance becomes our primary way of relating to our own hearts.

Because what we avoid doesn't disappear. It waits. And while it waits it tends to grow quietly in the background, maybe showing up as anxiety we can't quite name, distance in relationships we can't quite explain, or a low-level exhaustion that never fully lifts no matter how much we rest. Avoidance keeps us functional. It also keeps us from the kind of honest, wholehearted connection with God and others that we were made for.

Avoidance is a way we learn to protect ourselves from pain that once felt unmanageable. But what began as protection can become a prison. When we consistently avoid what is hard, we also avoid the desires beneath it. The longing to be seen, to be known, to be held in the parts of our story that feel too heavy to carry alone. Those desires don't go away. They wait too.

Wholeheartedness isn't the absence of pain. It's the willingness to stop running from it long enough to ask what it's pointing to. Psalm 34:18 reminds us that the Lord is close to the brokenhearted. He doesn't ask us to have it resolved before He draws near. He draws near because He loves us. And that nearness, His and the nearness of safe people, is what avoidance can keeps us from.

What might you be avoiding today that is actually an invitation to draw closer to God and to safe people?

— Wellspring Group | wellspringgroup.org

10/10/2026

Lies We Believe: “If God loved me, this wouldn't be happening.”

When hard things happen, our hearts look for an explanation. And one of the most painful places that search can land is here: maybe this is happening because God is displeased with me. Maybe I did something wrong. Maybe He is distant, or silent, or simply doesn't care the way I thought He did. We start to use our circumstances as a gauge for God's feelings toward us. When life is good He must be near. When life is hard He must have looked away.

But that's not the God of scripture. Job was called blameless and suffered in ways that defy explanation. Joseph was faithful and spent years in a pit and a prison before he ever saw redemption. Paul begged God three times to remove his suffering and was told no. None of these were stories of people who had fallen out of God's favor. They were stories of people held by a God whose love was not contingent on their circumstances being easy or their pain being resolved.

Suffering isn't always a sign of God's absence. It can be the place where His presence becomes most real, not because He caused the pain, but because He refuses to stay outside of it. Romans 8:38-39 tells us that nothing in all of creation is able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Not hardship. Not confusion. Not the season we are in right now that makes no sense and feels impossibly heavy.

Becoming Wholehearted reminds us that it is often in our deepest pain that our deepest desires surface. The longing to be seen, to be held, to know that what we are going through matters to someone. Those desires can be an invitation to bring what we are carrying to a God who has not moved, even when it has felt like He has.

What do you most need/long for from God in seasons of suffering? How have you experienced God meeting you in seasons of suffering?

— Wellspring Group | wellspringgroup.org

10/07/2026

Wholeheartedness Is Not…Achieving.

Achieving rarely feels like a problem. It feels like ambition. Like stewardship. Like being someone who takes seriously the gifts and opportunities God has placed in front of them. And there is nothing wrong with working hard, pursuing goals, or doing things with excellence. The problem isn't the achieving. The problem is when we begin to use it as the measure of our worth.

Because underneath a lot of our drive to achieve is a quieter question we are trying to answer: Am I enough? Am I valued? Am I respected? And we have learned, often early, that accomplishment is one of the most reliable ways to believe the answer might be “Yes.” So we set the next goal. Chase the next milestone. Earn the next thing that was supposed to make us feel okay about ourselves. But the finish line keeps moving. And the question remains unanswered.

Pursuing achievement as a way to prove our worth can sabotage what we most long for. It requires us to always put our best foot forward, to allow others to see only that side of us that contributes to the narrative. Rather than feeling seen, known, and valued for who we are, we are left uncertain, questioning. That uncertainty is worth getting curious about, because it points to a desire that no amount of achievement can fully meet.

Wholeheartedness isn't built on what we have accomplished. It's rooted in who we are beneath the accomplishments. Psalm 139:14 tells us we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Not fearfully and wonderfully productive. Our worth was established before we ever did anything, and it remains unchanged when we stop. That's not an excuse to stop caring about our work. It's an invitation to stop letting our work tell us who we are.

How do the words “fearfully and wonderfully made” fit with how you see yourself?

— Wellspring Group | wellspringgroup.org

10/05/2026

Registration for the January Battle for Your Heart Retreat is now open!!!

To register, visit wellspringgroup.org today!

10/02/2026

A Wellspring Word: Surrender

To surrender is to give ourselves over to another, letting go of control in favor of their will.

For most of my life, surrender sounded like failure. Waving the white flag. Giving up. Over the last 15 years, God has been reshaping that word in me. Surrender has become less about losing and more about trusting: yielding to Him in radical trust, believing His heart toward me is good.

What I've found is His kindness. He isn't harsh. He isn't hasty. He sits with me in my disappointment and offers me a different view. Surrender isn't a formula for getting the outcome I want. It's trusting Him with the outcome.

In the garden, Jesus prays, "Not my will, but yours be done" (Luke 22:42). But first, He asks for the cup to pass. He is honest about His anguish. Surrender isn't pretending we don't hurt or want something different. It's bringing our whole heart to the Father and trusting Him with what happens next.

Psalm 34:18 reminds us that the Lord is close to the brokenhearted. God doesn't wait for us on the far side of surrender. He meets us in the middle of it.

What outcome are you holding God to right now? What would it look like to open your hands and trust His heart instead?

- Abby Mandella, Executive Director of Wellspring Group

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