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I’m am leaving once more for a trip, this time with my beloved wife and son for the sunny state of Florida. Email me, call me on my cell phone, just don’t come over to my house because Nicole and our pit bull (leo) will both attack.

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So it’s rumored that Wilco’s album “A Ghost Is Born” syncs up perfectly with Mel Gibson’s “The Passion Of Christ” a la Floyd and The Wizard of Oz. I might have to check that out.

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So today I left Noel and Steve in Minneapolis with all the other big wigs from GCA and GCM. I’ve only flown a handful of times in my life and this was my first time flying alone.

For some reason I was a little bit nervous. I felt that I was going to forget something (like my boarding pass) or that I wouldn’t make it past security, or my flight would be cancelled and my phone would die and I would be stranded at the airport, begging for food, sleeping at gate C12. None of this happened of course, being an adult I can get through the details of life decently well (better when Suz is around). But all in all everything worked out. I was just a bit lonely.

It would be so weird to be some business dude who had to fly solo around the country all the time, strange airports, strange people sitting next to you who snore on the plane, turbulance. Interacting with people doesn’t come too easily for me anyway. I really don’t usually care to chit chat and am somewhat shy at first. People don’t realize that because I’m on the stage every week at church, but it’s a whole ‘nother ball game when you are alone in a different city.

Anyway, it’s good to be home. The conference was nice. It was good to meet some people. It was great to hang out with Noel and Steve And Mark Bowen and be the “bad kids.” We went and shot pool, drank and smoked some wonderful cigars. Mark is a really great guy. Wise, encouraging, easy to talk to and very funny. He would fit in well around here (not saying that we are all these things, just that we like people who are).

Well, Suzanne has a funny story to tell me, so I’m going to get off the computer here.

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So here is a list of what we will be talking about at this conference:

Here’s a summary of the topics on the table:

 
History of Evergreen Community Church
Plurality of Elders-Troubles, trials, and pluses
One Church, Many Locations-The advantages and pitfalls of a multi-site church
Other pertinent models of multi-site church
New Paradigms of Church Planting
What Evergreen did
What Evergreen might do differently
Use of video to start churches
Cultural Sensitivity vs. Remaining Counter Cultural
What is the quality line? How excellent does excellent need to be?
Is offering buildings and programs catering to American consumerism and producing the kind of disciples we want?
Has the time of the front door church come to an end
Is there a need for more large churches?
Small Groups-The future importance of small groups
Coaching small groups
New developments in the small group world

Looks like some interesting topics. I’m looking forward to seeing what people are saying about Cultural sensitivity vs. Remaining Counter Cultural. Also if buildings cater to consumerism. I’ll let you know the Truth when I come back. (jk).

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I’m heading to Minniapolis tomorrow with Noel and Steve for a short conference. I’ll be back Tuesday night. I spent a week in the Twin cities a couple of years ago with Scott and really enjoyed my time there. It’s like a Chicago that you can get around. Good Eat Street also.

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Lark news is just awesome….here’s a great headline

Heart attack victim goes unnoticed at Pentecostal revival

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Napoleon Dyanamite

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What a good week. I mean that in the hardest way possible. The young couples group is just starting and gaining momentum as more people are getting connected and as our vision is getting focused, but it’s tough stuff! It’s amazing how hard communication can be, but how rewarding the struggle to understand each other is. Often times when we don’t understand each other we think that they are thinking badly of us and our motives. We draw a cartoon verson of the situation in our mind where people are heroes if they agree with us and villians if they don’t. Or we think that the other person has that picture which is really the same thing. It’s interesting when we read Paul’s letters to the churches, we see a very graceful greeting, even when there is some conflict between them. He “thinks well” of them. He “thanks God for them.” I think this attitude is a hard one to have. But then again, that’s what it means to put your value behind someone else’s good. That’s what it means to love sacrificially. Most of the time anyway, our motives in these things are the same, it’s just the communication that is confusing. Wanting more specifics? Too bad.

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On a lighter note, thanks to Sarah for this video of me and JR.

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