Capitol Hill Weekender Update...

7:56 PM. I'm sitting in an actual membership class for the congregation. The poor "real" attendees are surrounded by 50+ weekender guys breathing down their necks...

Every conference has its low points -- the endless hours of sitting, the boring parts that make you want to blow your brains out, the occasional nonapplicable content. But I'm thoroughly enjoying my immersion into Capitol Hill life. When you get away for four days with God, you can't help but hear from him.

Here's a thought that came at dinner...

There is an underlying conviction in the modern church that we pastors need to do more than preach and pray. There's a pressure to be the shock jock of sermon series... the promoter of flagrant outreach events... the producer of Sunday morning productions. And while we say we believe that God grows a church, our actions say otherwise.

I haven't fully drunk the CH cool aid, but I'm very refreshed by the historic approach.

Comments

[Clayton Bell]

Great insights Ben, thanks for sharing the experience.

Did you blog from your iPhone, laptop, or feather quill pen? :-)

[J. Cardinell]

As a person totally immersed in the world of the modern-event-driven church i respond to your comment "There's a pressure to be the shock jock of sermon series... the promoter of flagrant outreach events... the producer of Sunday morning productions."

maybe if we stopped being the person you describe and simply pastor (shepherd?) the congregation God has given us and let Him build the church we will see better longer lasting results....i dunno....

btw you say "Every conference has its low points...the boring parts that make you want to blow your brains out, the occasional nonapplicable content." i hope you are not warnng us about WiBo....haha

[Darren]

More power to you with that kool-aid, bro... I'm stayin' in the 21st century! haha

[Chris]

i would just ask that you post more pictures ... pulpit, library, and everthign else. this might be as close as some of us can ever get!!!