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DeAnna and I just got back home from Nashville.  We had a GREAT time.  No kids and No dog for two days was nice.  Nashville is a GREAT city.  Atlanta could learn something from Nashville.  The downtown area is rocking.  There are some great eating areas, some great music, and it just a great city.  It was so nice just hanging out with DeAnna.  We did a lot of sleeping.

Thursday morning I got up and hung out with about 12 pastors for a few hours and it was great just sharing stories.  Most of the guys I have mentioned a million times, but two guys stuck out to me.

1. Pete Wilson -  Pete pastor Cross Point Church in Nashville and is going a bang up job.  He reminds me a lot of  Batterson in that he might be one of the nicest guys in America.  The thing that stuck out to me about Pete was the building his church meets in.  It is an awesome story and one of the saddest stories I have ever heard.  The meet in a old church  building.  It is freaking HUGE.  Seriously it takes up a whole city block.  It is the old school brick building that has been added onto about 10 times.  It has a worship center that seats well over 1000, has a HUGE gym, thousands of classrooms and is just a lot of building.  They have done a GREAT job remodeling the inside.  It was cool to see how God provided this building for them to lease.  That is the cool part of the story.  The sad part of the story is WHY they can meet there.  On the city block is the first part of this old church building.  A small worship building that actually looks like it is falling apart.  Inside that small building on the same property meets the original church.  At one time they were THE church in Nashville and now they run about 75 people and meet back in their original building having to lease the rest of their building to another church to pay the bills.  It is a sad story of what happens when a church isn’t willing to change to reach the next generation.  I wonder what those people think every Sunday when they show up to their old building and see thousands of people walking into the building they use to meet in?
2. Randy Cook - Randy pastors a church called Crossroads that is about 14 months old.  This guy could be my brother from another mother.  The dude was flat out crazy and the story of his church is CRAZY.  Go check out his blog if you get a chance.  I was really impressed with this cat.

It was a good time and much needed.  Now, I am sitting here getting freaking pumped up about Sunday!  We are talking about something Sunday that we haven’t talked about in a LONG time and it is going to be something we ALL were created with a need to experience.  Oh yeah, wait to you hear the band Sunday.  I can promise you have NEVER seen the Revolution band like you will this Sunday.  It is going to be a fun Sunday!