Several thoughts from today. Sorry if they are random…
- First session was great. We sat about 200 rows back… no lie… and still had a great time. Kudos to Marko for the quote of the first session. He said something like "Hey, feel free to try stuff new… but make sure you put new batteries in your crap detector and turn it on high." Classic line… I know it’s not new but it caught me.
- Crowder was great today. In the first session he got tickled (laughing that is) by some people near the stage. More fun than usual… very funny stuff.
- Donald Miller’s talk was a load IMO. While I appreciate him and his way of inspiring so many, and yet he completely contradicted himself if you actually listened to him. No disrespect, but it was pretty typically emergent. He spent 20-25 minutes telling us that our current way of church teaches a bad message of a transaction that isn’t true. "If you do this, you will get something good." While I disagreed with his assessment in general, I was OK until he came to his conclusion at the end. At the end he gave us a transaction… if you do ministry this way, you will gain this. (He shared a testimony of him doing ministry "the right way.") So, I was really disappointed in his talk.
- That said, he said something that was noteworthy: He said that in the model of ministry we use today, a business-minded model, the sad reality is that ministry professionals are treated like managers than ministers… as soon as we don’t provide our worth vs. spending, we are out the door. I like that thought.
- The YMX Meet-up was awesome! The location was a little shady, but we had a great time. There were a total of 12 of us… and let’s just say that I no fully understand why they changed the name to East End Cafe… because locals call it "The Brothel." It wasn’t that kind of place really, just had a lot of fun with their former history.
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