The highlight of the weekend was a speaker by the name of Phyllis Tickle. She is a 73 year old woman with more knowledge in her head than most of us combined. She spoke about how every 500 years Christianity as we know it reforms itself thru a series of years and events, and how we are currently in the midst of what is being referred to as The Great Emergence. Amazing! Everything she said is what I've felt my faith going thru the past couple of years... my desire to totally leave any one religion behind and just see Jesus for who he is and what he does and did and my desire to love all people no matter what they believe. Many, many of us were in tears by the end of her session. Those that weren't in tears were offended by things she said and therefore didn't really listen to most of what she had to say. The poor lady was actually verbally attacked by a man who "heard" her say something that she totally didn't say. Mark-O, the president of YS, actually had to call the guy off of her. Amazing and ridiculous. Of course anytime that anything with a word sounding anything like the word "emergent" or "emerging" is brought up in a room full of Christians these days, there's gonna be trouble amongst a group of them.
The Family Force Five concert. I tried to get other concerts too, but the lights from this one showed up the best.
Dinner at Ted's Montana Grill with fellow Youth Ministry Exchange forumites. I totally enjoyed my bison meatloaf and mashed potatoes!!
Shot from the top of the escalators! 5500 people is alot of people to go up one set of escalators!
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Holy Crow!! 5500 People -1 set of escalators? YIKES!!! Thankgoodness no fire drill. I'm glad you had such a great time, and were lifted.
The challenge comes in loving and accepting people where they are at, yet still speaking the Truth in love as Jesus did.
It sounds like the conference was awesome!
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