Time I Spent In Transit: 11 Hours
Time I Arrived At the
Time the Conference Was Supposed to Start: 3:30 PM
Time It Actually Started Due to the Inevitable United Methodist “Technical Difficulties”: 4:15PM
Presenters: Tim Keel (The bearded, earringed, long haired pastor of Jacob’s Well in
Doug Pagitt (The balding, wispy-goateed, completely real pastor of Solomon’s Porch in
The Content of Our “Worship Experience”: 2 Songs, 1 Sermon, Communion, and 1 Song (Which depending on whether you like cookie-cutter contemporary or not, was either heaven or hell)
Time I Began to Lose It Due to Lack of Sleep and Excessive Extroversion: 5:30PM
Time I Ended Up in Conversation With Doug Pagitt: 6:00PM
Number of Times I Unwittingly Spilled Out My Angst Regarding My Discernment Process To A Crowd Of People: One
Number of Times Doug Pagitt was Around When I Did That: One
Number of Conference Presenters Who Now Think I’m Crazy, Uber-Intense, and a Little Bit Troubled: One
Number of Times I Now Wish That I Had Kept My Bloody Mouth Shut Until I Got a Full Night’s Sleep: Beyond count
Memorable Quotes From the Day:
Tim Keel on Losing His Faith: “I wasn’t losing the content of my doctrine, I was losing my way of life”
Tim Keel on Seminary Education: “I felt like I was being trained and going into deep debt for a world that didn’t exist” (And I completely agree with him!)
Tim Keel on Church Ministry: ““The Church has loads of organizations, but don’t have enough organism”
Doug Pagitt on Living the Christian Life: “I got into Chrisitanity thinking that I was going to be a full participant” and ““If I’m going be a Christian, I’m going to be one fully and completely, I’m not going to outsource any part of it”
Amount of Sleep I Got Last Night: 9.5 Utterly Comatose Hours
Hopes For Thursday: To Be Slightly Less Crazy Than Yesterday
I’ll post a midday update if I get a chance.
1 comment:
Ah, Ben -- you are too cute. I guess that's why I love you. ;-)
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