Monday, August 14, 2006

Alanis was right yet again...

I went to a Leadership conference this past week expecting to hear dribble and non sense, but I left amazed and inspired to change the world. I was pleasantly amused by people who I don't really care for and people who I felt had nothing to say to the church. I laughed as every speaker was speaking straight into the heart of the church and it felt like nobody was listening. I felt that it was ironic at the same time because everything they were saying that the church (or buisnesses) should look at doing, a lot were not doing at all. I was inspired to think and pray. I prayed for future leaders who are being brought up int he church and current leaders who are hopefully going to begin investing. I prayed for God's guidance in my own direction. I hope that God will enable me to attend and work with a community that I will know and not a congregation which looks like a sea of unfamiliar faces which I currently work. I don't want to be famous, I just want to introduce peace into my community and spread it into the world.

3 comments:

Matt Martinson said...

Glad to hear you were moved by the Summit. Sorry I missed it... Okay, maybe I'm not, but I'm still happy knowing it might have had a good impact.

Kurt Ingram said...

Ron, i agree. All i thought about after the Bono thing was "if these pastors who just heard this go back and sit on their religious asses and don't respond i don't think i could be convinced that they are really Christians". There were so many things i heard and heard about that i just kept thinking if churches really listened and applied these things, churches would begin to overwhelm the darkness with the true light. Oh and what Bono said about grace was freaking awesome, especially that he said how we try to understand what Jesus did on the cross as penal substitution or other complicated soteriological theories so that we don't have to face the beautiful tension in grace

Colin Potts said...

hey, this is on another subject....I posted a bunch of audio links on my blog (that was your idea by the way) so you should check it out....