I have a generational aversion to employing the word “awesome” about anything, so I’ll just say that the Pastor’s Conference was pretty doggone good.
- Grass roots, bottom up. No big names. No marquee personalities. Perfect.
- PC prez Dave Miller, The Man of Vision, was a fountain of dry wit if you don’t mind my mixing metaphors. Gotta like the guy for that. He was also the man without rythm. The Gettys’ peppiest, clappiest music couldn’t even get a random muscle twitch from him.
- Speaking of music, it was spectacular. Any group with a fiddle, mandolin, and piano is a hit with me. Super.
- I think the Caskey Center for Church Excellence at NOBTS stole a march on the other seminaries by being so heavily involved. I liked what I saw.
- Get this: the PC made a partial financial report in which they reported a $50,000 surplus (to be turned over to the 2018 PC), the spending of $62,000 to scholarship small church pastors’ attendance, and the offerings received to go to GuideStone’s Mission Dignity. Unheard of.
- Of the preachers I heard all did well but the very young Jamar Andrews really connected.
- I don’t have any frame of reference on attendance at recent PCs but there were large crowds in the morning and afternoon sessions.
Keep this kind of stuff up and someone will get the idea that the SBC is mostly a convention of small churches.
Very good job guys.
Thanks for the update. I’ve been anxious to hear about the PC. I’m so thankful God has been glorified and he has blessed the meeting.
BP on Pastors’ Conference
http://bpnews.net/49019/study-of-philippians-pervades-pastors-conf
David R. Brumbelow
The best music comes out of Ireland!
Better be careful or this small church thing might catch on.
I have wanted to write, but I am a broken, befuddled, and burned out.
In short…just about the best time of my life.
Our own Bart was reall good…top drawer.
Shane Hall broke me. 24 hours later I cannot talk about it without dissolving into tears. If you haven’t seen it, watch it. A more powerful message you will never hear.
Every message was good.
I have been a fan of the Getty’s since the first time I heard “In Christ Alone.” Meeting and spending time with them (mostly Keith) left me with deeper respect .
They are real. No diva stuff. I liked them, now I love them.
I am exhausted and feeling that post-event let-down.
Can I be honest with you? We might change a couple of things if we did it again, but there is a simple fact…we have trouble imagining how things could have gone better.
Every message was solid encouraging bible exposition!
“Good” wasn’t good enough.