headed to innovation3
I am headed to innovation3 in Dallas next week. I have to admit that my expectations of anything “mainstream” Christian are pretty low. Right now I am only seeing the same speakers rotating around speaking on the same subjects and getting paid a whole lot of money to do so. Some conferences are paying anywhere from $10,000 to $30,000 for a keynote Christian speaker….. Maybe I am just disenchanted by the whole thing and recognize the need for reformation to take place among our churches as well as our “Christian Culture.” I keep making attempts to check my attitude at the door so that I have a higher probability of getting something out- I hear a lot that is philosophical at these conferences….but there is little practical- the reason is- they don’t know how they got to where they are…but stand there and try to explain what cannot be explained-
It seems as if we have entered into the “good-ol-boy” system once again where it is not what you know…but rather who you know…
maybe we should try to re-cycle the Jesus Movement next….or launch a Passion Church in Atlanta with all the cool kids!!! LOL – that’s not personality driven at all…LOL! –
jaded…probably….
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Im not offended at all but why are you going then? just curious…
JD
haha… love it Yeidy!!
You gonna come speak for me in February? We pay between $10-$30
dude- you bet- I got nothing profould and I won’t pretend I do. but my church pays my salary…so I’ll speak for free! LOL
silly silly JD- I ‘want’ to get something out of it but I am battling my expectations…
well… have fun at the conference! Hope it exceeds your expectations! Doesn’t seem like that will be hard for it to do. 🙂
Actually all sillyness aside –
(which btw I was not trying to be silly just common sense xtion)
I would rather see you speak at a conference than some of these people who just made it to the conf world because they use a lot of “hair product” and have a book or popular blog. You have a heart of authenticity and like Pastor Rick said today on the MLK message based on Exodus 4 give God your influence,identity and income and he will work miracles like the parting of the red seas, water coming out of a rock etc. You may not be a conferece speaker “yet” but I can tell you he has used you to work miracles in my life. Like those days when i was so down and wanted to take my life and you sent me a personal email that put things in perspective or when I was so scared to get on that plane to go to Africa with all my phobias etc and you drove all the way to Torrance to pray for me and eat weird sandwiches and seriously that gave me cush a security I did better than my entire team so you are of big influence and will continue to be. On that note, Ill try to be a keynote speaker too after this long babbling JD style response 🙂