I've Learned A Few Things

While I'll go into more details about the speakers and presentations at the conference later tonight, I've already learned a few practical things:

1. When you put your picture on your blog a lot of people at church planters conferences recognize you...and that's not always a good thing!

2. Gary Lamb can flat bring it!!!

3. Blackberry enabled phones are great for short messages, but suck for lengthy blog posts.

4. When you blog something about Ed Stetzer he'll call you out from the podium at a church planter's conference.

5. ADD and modern church worship technolgy practices do not work well together.

6. I love when big, smiling, bald-headed guys wearing silver sunglasses direct me to where I need to park my car.

7. So much of the stuff presented at these conferences are geared exclusively to modern churches intent on reaching the 30+ crowd.

8. I'm inspired by the big dreams of the guys presenting, but can use very little of their techniques at Compass Point.

9. I love hanging out with folks with big vision...even if our methods and goals are different.

10. The tap water in Atlanta tastes just as bad as the tap water in Lakeland.