We left out around 10 today to head over to the churchplanters.com conference.  The place was slammed.

It was VERY cool to meet some other church planters whose blogs I read.  I felt bad because I didn’t get to talk to any that long but I hope to make up for that tomorrow.  I was suffering from Monday hangover big time.  Sunday left me wore out big time.

Shawn was great in session one.  I am blessed that Shawn was active in our church before we launched and his discussion today was on being mean about your vision.  Before we launched he told that to me and our core team who visited his church one day and it literally changed how I do everything.  We lost our whole core team within about 6 months and we lost some staff early on and the bottom line is I could care less because I KNOW the vision God gave me to do church for the unchurched.  Shawn changed me that day with a simple statement when he said BE MEAN ABOUT YOUR VISION.  He taught that again today and I was proud to say the vision has not changed here since day one.  It was a great reminder.

After session 1, we had the first breakout and I was up for round 1 of teaching on Going All Out For The Disconnected.  I was very surprised how nervous I was but I didn’t think anyone was going to show up.  By the time the session started they had to open the doors to our room where people could sit in the hall.  I honestly was humbled and that is not an easy thing for me. :)  I don’t know if anyone got anything from it but I had a freaking blast bringing it.  I just shared my passion for doing church the way we do and I think the large majority of people enjoyed it.  It was a blast and I am honored with the doors God has opened for me to share the Ridge Stone story.  I got to do it again tomorrow so pray someone shows up this time as well.

I have to be at the conference at 7:00 a.m. in the morning to do a podcast with some guys and I am excited about that.

The thing that excited me the most was hanging out with my team.  I love those guys and I am so proud that I honestly think we have the sharpest staff around.  They are amazing.  They understand me and understand our vision and they have my back and will fight for me and our vision at the drop of a hat.

It was a fun day and I appreciate the prayers and would appreciate them again tomorrow.

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