by Lon on November 11, 2008
This Saturday, I’ll be at the Cultivate Gathering – for those who are interested in church planting or creating mission-shaped churches. Let me know if you’re interested.
But if I was still a student, I’d be at this.
It’s modeled very much after the TED conferneces and it’s right in the heart of Toronto. They’ve made it free if you’re a student or a teacher, and limited capacity of $500 for everybody else.
If you qualify, you must go to this.
Last night was part of an interesting event at Coffee Culture. Global TV’s been shooting a documentary on the relevance of Christianity to Canadian millenials.
Last night, Nathan Gerber of Divine Force Company invited leaders and influencers in his circle to dialog and network as they captured our conversations on film. It was thrilling to say the least to be in the company of so many movers and shakers and visionaries.
Besides JD Heffern, who kindly gave me a lift and just started blogging here, I had a chance to connect with Wendy of newdirection.ca, Nathan Colquhoun and Joe Manafo of ‘the story‘, and John Franklin of imago, to name a few.
How’s that for dropping names? For the rest of you I met that night, I didn’t get your contacts, drop me a note and let’s connect further.
What was even more exciting is the sense that as we continue to bump heads, we’re on the brink of something beautiful happening across the country.
by Lon on December 5, 2007
(I took this at the Museum of Play – Quote is by GK Chesterton who wrote “Orthodoxy” almost a hundred years ago)
Do you ever hear from seasoned leaders sharing about how they worked their butt off and grinded it out during their earlier years? How they invested, and labored, and pushed boundaries, and poured their hearts and energy into accomplishing things of significance in their lives?
This is then almost always followed by them saying in reflection they wish they rested more and played more.
Yet I have to admit every time I hear that, something in me lunges out and says, well if you weren’t so passionate and didn’t work so hard, there’s just no way you would’ve accomplished what you’ve accomplished in life!
Most great leaders live highly imbalanced lives in accomplishing greatness. We go to them seeking to learn how to achieve equally great things in life. And then they turn to us and tell us to live more balanced lives! How dare they.
But maybe there’s something to this.
Could it be at the end of it all, there might be somethings more important than accomplishing great things, even great things for our great God?
