Wednesday Update

Got up at 4:30am this morning for the early start with Mark Jones.  Rocky invited us to sit with the staff for this session, so we really need to stay with the schedule.

Registration was great if your name ended in S or U. For last names ending in A, not so much.

Once registered we learned we had the yellow lanyard of the Calvin group.  So we were in overflow for this session.  We chose the cozy and richly wood trimmed Chappell for the overflow venue.

It was a great presentation from JM (aka: Johnny Mac to his good friends like Debra..).  The part that really moved me was when he announced that each of our names were distributed to the congregation and they were praying for each of us personally.  I did not know what to think.  Just accept the kindNess and endless labor from these 1100 servants living out God's love.  It was now lunchtime.  Jason and Mark did a little industrial engineering and determined that time would be best spent by grabbing our books then getting lunch when the lines were shorter. (Danger, arty tardy pics ahead)

After lunch we were back for Dr. Reeves.  He had many great quotes.  One sample, "Christianity is not something you smear onto your real life as just another option for how to live....".  Wow.  Just before Dr. Reeves spoke the Getty's sang.  It was a sort of duel with the booming men singing backup to Kristen.  It was then onto the Family Center for Ligon Duncan.  He is a stunningly practical teacher.  His section was John 6 and his point regarding pastors and teachers focusing too much on delivering the "Bible content",was dangerous.  You must seek to have The Word indwell first before ANY message would have value.

Mr. Chandler kindly invited us to dinner.  No small thing considering that there were 20+ already attending.  Out of time for more details...  I will try to provide updates through the day if there is any time.