Flying solo to T4G
On his blog, CJ Mahaney offers some great advice for pastoral teams attending Together for the Gospel as a group. Having the entire pastoral team attend events like this together must surely beneficial - my church’s pastoral team (and several lay elders) attended this year’s Shepherd’s Conference as a group, and the feedback was very positive from all who attended.
However, I’m going to T4G by myself this year, and I certainly don’t want to miss out on the comradery just because no one else from my church is coming. I’m already planning to do some things that will help me meet new people - attending the Band of Bloggers event, sharing a hotel room with a pastor I’ve only met via email, etc.. Anyone out there have additional ideas?
April 11 2008 07:00 pm | Uncategorized
tom coughlin on 18 Apr 2008 at 2:29 pm #
Hello John,
We met at the Band of Bloggers lunch. the infamous “tom coughlin” not coach of the Superbowl champions!
Awesome conference huh? Now I must find the time to process the messages…
I’ll keep checking out your blogs
Tom Coughlin
Tappan New York
tom coughlin on 22 Apr 2008 at 8:44 pm #
Hi John,
Tim Challies wrote about David Wells book “The Courage to Be Protestant”, and informed us that it is a synopsis of his other three works on postmodernism and culture. I was glad to hear that he has come out with a summary of sorts of those three books. I read them all, but I could strongly use a summary. They were excellent, thorough, and a wake up call to the church. Now I want to read this new one. Anyway, hope you had a great conference, and the Lord bless you. I’m the guy that sat across from you and up one row at BOB.
Tim S. on 24 Apr 2008 at 6:14 am #
Hey John,
It was good to meet you and share the hotel room at T4G. I’m still digesting all that I took in at the conference while at the same time trying to catch up on things back home at the church. I showed the congregation a few pictures, including the “Statue of Liberation” from Memphis…which reminds me that I was going to send you that one via email…coming soon!
I started reading David Wells “The Courage to be Protestant” book as well. I think the best line so far is:
“Furthermore, what is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?”
Interesting observation/question!
My 2 suitcases both weighed in at 47.5 lbs, just under Northwest’s 50 lb limit (meaning I went home with over 50lbs of books between the two, not to mention carry-on books). The Northwest check-in man was sure that the one suitcase felt way more than 50lbs and for a while I thought the Lord must be helping me out with the scales. Then it occurred to me, that is probably something the Lord would not do…He’s not a big fan of unjust scales according to Proverbs! But Praise God it all fit! I also just barely made it under Canada Customs limit without having to pay taxes.
Hope to see you again sometime. God bless you as you reflect on the conference.
PS: Managed to pick up a mini Louisville Slugger bat with the Toronto Blue Jays on it for my son and gifts for the girls from the science center across the street.
PS2: I preached about “The Sluggard and the Diligent” last Sunday. I could not resist explaining that a lazy person from Louisville would be called…you guessed it…a Louisville Sluggard. Many groans resulted.
God bless!