BE AFRAID - BE VERY AFRAID

This was one very full day deep in the heart of Texas. Having discovered that I had booked a hotel wthout an exercise room (but the price was right), I hit the road and started walking the streets of Grapevine around 5.45 this morning. If you walk far enough, you discover that it has a real Main Street with porches and all those things that I saw in western towns, when I was a kid at the movies. Very quaint despite the fact that it was still dark.

Four conference sessions with three different speakers, plus a Q & A lunch for senior pastors with Ed Young and I think I am now officially brain dead or at best, on information overload.

Can't wait to hear T.D. Jakes tomorrow morning. He has to be one of the best preachers around at the present time.

The teaching that got to me most today was Erwin McManus from Los Angeles speaking about choices. Here are a few quotes -

You can't prove God by playing safe.

Risk is a necessary component of church life.

What are you doing this year that if God doesn't show up, your church is finished?

He really got my attention - or maybe God did. If you like church as usual and a high degree of comfort, you may have discovered a while ago that Grace is not the safest place to be.

But if you still haven't learned that yet, I will be home - and you should be very afraid!