Its close to 11PM and I’m physically dragging from a lack of sleep these past few days. I’m currently taking a few moments to decompress from the Q Conference as I listen to OTR’s Drunkard Prayer album.

These past three days I’ve spent time with some amazing leaders who have somewhat challenged my thinking and sparked some fresh creativity in my soul. The best part of the conference is not the conference itself, but the dedicated time of networking, conversations and friendship building that naturally take place.

I hope to share more of my thoughts about the conference in the next few days. But, my big takeaways are as follows:

1. Becoming fully human: Hmm, what does that even mean? Think about it, fully means “the best of the best,” we’ve captured something (humanity) in all of its fullness. Crap, that is truly convicting. Do I live my life day-to-day in a state that fully captures the purpose that God has for me? Am I truly embracing the presence of Jesus in my soul minute-by-minute? I think not!

2. Social Activism: I’m deeply encouraged by all the activism that is currently taking place in the church. Yes, we are in danger of allowing activism to become something greater than it should be. We can worship activism and not the Great Activist if we are not careful. But the truth of the matter seems that the church is waking-up and embracing our role to love, serve and sacrifice for the people who suffer at the hands of injustice!

New music alert: Just switched music to Zach Williams, do yourself a favor and check him out, great music.

3. Humility: I love that superstar leader types are becoming less and less as we continue to move towards a flat approach to leadership. There were some really “well known” leaders who spent a lot of times hanging out at the after parties and such. This is such a positive sigh that is desperately needed in the church.

4. The Local Church Expanded: I’ve been deeply wrestling with this thought as of late. What is the local church? Anyhow, I loved hanging out with sound techs, designers, business folks, architects, non-profit types, pastors, authors, engineers, musicians, etc! Good to see so many people trying to repurpose their lives for God’s glory and to improve humanity. Its truly beautiful to see so many people deeply care about others!

5. Collaboration: We need each other, there is little doubt that my single life can’t make a massive difference in our world. But, what if I play my role with dedication, focus and sacrifice? Is that not the beauty of the church, we’re all truly are under the leadership of Jesus and we all have been gifted in such a way as to glorify Jesus and create something beautiful in our world for his glory such as, great music, photography, speaking/teaching/preaching, art, design, strategy, etc. I could go on-and-on, but together we will bring more glory to God and more transformation to humanity!

So that is my initial “off-the-top-of-my-head” thoughts. If you went to Q leave a comment so we can virtually connect.

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