Missin' it

We are missing something great today in Atlanta, GA. From October 6 – 8 the Catalyst Conference ‘happens’ in Atlanta.

It is a great conference designed to reach the ‘next generation of Christian Leaders’. But we find it is great for anyone who wants to be around people excited about God. You learn. You get recharged. You get inspired. You do more.

My wife and I have not attended Catalyst during the last two years but we were there the three years previously. As with many conferences it is motivational and inspirational but it is also challenging.

It is almost as if the issue you are dealing with at the time will be addressed by one of the speakers and you will encounter someone who has had the same situation you are dealing with and found a way to get beyond it with God’s help.

That may not matter to you and that’s ok. But I think if you are a Christian you will want to know as much as you can about God and his word and how to live the way that God wants you to live. It is a process and one that you grow into every day.

I pray that you get a hunger to know God like no hunger has ever possessed you before.

What kind of hunger is that? The kind that you have when you are learning about a sport, like football, and you start to watch every game on TV, you go to as many games as you can, you get a team jersey and wear it everywhere, you debate anyone about how great your team is, you get into a Fantasy Football league and know all the statistics and you think about football almost all the time. That is someone who truly loves football. Substitute your own interest. Do you have the same passion?

God wants us to love Him in the same way. With the same passion that we may love football. One of the ways you get that is by getting together with people who are excited about what you are excited about. Who are passionate about God and want to live like Christ. And people who will challenge you.

It could be about new ideas. But many times it’s about refining and applying what you already know and learning how to share that with others.

It’s not just showing up at church once a week or hanging out with the same people every week and talking about the same type of stuff all the time although there is some importance to that.

It’s about becoming more effective as a Christian.

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