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It’s Not A Conference, It’s an Experience

October 7, 2008 in Church Planting, Cross Point Church, Friends, Leadership with 14 Comments

I wouldn’t really call myself a a conference kind of guy. While I love to learn, I usually have a hard time sitting in a location being bombarded with information for a couple of days. It might have to do with my ADD, but it’s just not the best environment for me.

However Catalyst is a different story.

I love this conference because I think it’s the non conference-conference. It’s an experience.

I love the worship, the speakers, and the opportunity to network with 12,000 of my closest friends.

Several of you have contacted me about getting together at Catalyst. As you can imagine it’s tough to do at a conference this big, so here are two great ways to meet up. On Thursday night I’ll be at the Atlanta Bloggers Meetup and then right after that I’ll be at the Deadly Viper shin-dig, from 8-9:30 pm. You can CLICK HERE for more details. Looking forward to hanging out!

I’ll also be blogging from the conference, but for the best coverage you’ve got to check out the CATALYST BACKSTAGE BLOG hosted by none other than my colleague Anne Jackson. She’ll have unprecedented access to all the speakers you’ll want to hear from. So if you can’t go to Catalyst this year, you can experience it via the blog. Check it out…

Meeting New Friends

September 30, 2008 in Cross Point Church, Friends, Leadership, Multi Campus, Religion with 17 Comments

I love conferences. I’m on my way home, but had a blast! I’ve spent the last two days at Sea Coast Church in Charleston, South Carolina, at the Multi-Site Exposed Church conference.

While each session was awesome at helping us wrap our minds around the mulit-site model, the best wisdom gained has been through the conversations we’ve had with friends in other chuches.

Between sessions Gary Lamb gave me some incredible words about an area of my life which is out of balance.

I had a wonderful dinner on Monday night with Dinno Rizzo, Mark Batterson and Greg Surratt and their teams. In one dinner these guys made my head spin as they challenged and encouraged me in so many different ways. After dinner I laid in my hotel room bed just trying to process it all. This group of pastors is on the front line of changing the church culture in America and around the world.

On Monday I had the opportunity to be interviewed by @murphy24 and @sarahgad on the topic of church leadership. Had a great time and they are developing an amazing tool that is going to impact  Seacoast and eventually church’s around the world.

I also got to hang and converse with new friends like @joshsur, @dawnnicole,  @geoffsurratt, and @shawnwood. They’re all fantastic individuals who are a lot of fun to follow on twitter.

Thanks to everyone for the advice, the wisdom, but most importantly for being the original person God created you to be. I look forward to sharpening each other more in the near future.

Have you recently met anyone who challenged you to look at something differently?