WOW—what an awesome day! Granger Community Church has it going on!!!
John Maxwell says that everything rises and falls on leadership—if that is true (and I believe it is) then it is obvious why Granger is seeing such tremendous growth—this church is being led by a leader of leaders—Mark Beeson.
Mark did the first session today…and THIS SESSION ALONE was worth the price of the conference. He told how he made an “F” on his first sermon in preaching class in seminary (that made me feel a little better about myself…I made a “C.”) When he asked the prof about it the dude told Mark, “You talked too fast and you said way too much about Jesus!”
Mark said since then he is not a preacher—he just likes to talk & tell stories about Jesus…and I SO connected with that.
Tim Stevens did the next session and did an incredible job at talking about how to create buzz.
After lunch I did a break out session on how to prepare a creative message…I HAVE to admit that I felt like I was WAY over my head…and yes, I will a tad nervous…but the session went awesome, thank you to everyone who prayed!!! PRAY HARD TOMORROW…I am speaking in one of the main sessions!
The final session today was done by a dude named Rob Wegner…probably one of the most passionate dudes I have ever seen in his presentation style. He LOVES seeing people “get it” & that came out in his talk. You can check out the following sites that have notes posted on them about today…
A few more things…
They KNOW how to take care of people up here—HOLY COW—I have eaten more candy than a middle schooler over the past 24 hours. My FAVORITE candy is the dove chocolate…and they had a bag waiting on me when I arrived this morning—NOT GOOD!!!
I had six shots of espresso today…I had to have something to keep me going after getting in bed last night and then going to the gym this morning. Yes, I was & am hyper!!
Oh yeah—they didn’t tell me that it was going to be cold up here. I understand to them that 41 degrees is not cold—but that is FREEZING in the south!!! When we went outside to get in the mini-van to go to the gym this morning we were shocked!!!
That’s about it for now—more updates later!