Things I learned at Catalyst 2010: Day One
- Chick-fil-a has their crap together, so you don’t have to.
- When you mix violin, beatboxing, praise-team, a guy tapping on an ipad, an Eminem song and a children’s choir there is tension.
- the tension is good.
- people live as if there is something in the world that can fully satisfy their appetite. i know it’s true, because i’m guilty of it.
- I can’t trade my future for a bowl of stew.
- For every seven people with clean water in the world, there is one person without clean water.
- Most people don’t want a free charity:water wrist band.
- Knife throwing is only interesting for about 10 minutes, and ONLY if it involves a giving money to a cute little girl and her favorite charity.
- Carrots and Sticks are soooooo last century.
- gmail (my favorite email provider) was not created as an assignment. It was just a project birthed by a google employee in corporately mandated creative-time.
- Where NOT to sit at Catalyst (Any of the mid-level corner sections. Lighting fixtures completely obscure your view of the screens)
- There are more slaves in the world today due to human trafficking than there ever have been and on the church’s watch too.
- Aussies (people from Australia) love walmart even more than we do.
- How to spell Australia.
- John Mark McMillan is pretty stinking amazing.
- The Bowl Cut is making a come back.
- Seth Godin is totally ganked his look from the Six Flags guy.
- pro-wrestling is fake, light sabers aren’t hard to build, not many people are really into bowling, cupcake failure is not fatal, and deer kill more people every year than sharks.
- actions that bring us together are at the heart of an economy built on connections.
- Some people come to Catalyst just to play Angry Birds.
- Kari Jobe wears strange head gear.
- You gotta eat it, before you tweet it. (we are passing off so much information we don’t have time to properly absorb it)
- If pride is the graveyard of great leaders, then insecurity is it’s psych ward.
- Do not listen to Francis Chan unless you want your world rocked.
- Francis Chan is not radical. Not at all compared to the stories in Acts. I am tame in comparison to either.
- God wants us to brag… about knowing HIM.
- A lot of what we do in churches is weird.
- We must strive to live a life that would not seem out of place when placed next to the stories in scripture. Proof?
Things I learned at Catalyst 2010: Day One
- Chick-fil-a has their crap together, so you don’t have to.
- When you mix violin, beatboxing, praise-team, a guy tapping on an ipad, an Eminem song and a children’s choir there is tension.
- the tension is good.
- people live as if there is something in the world that can fully satisfy their appetite. i know it’s true, because i’m guilty of it.
- I can’t trade my future for a bowl of stew.
- For every seven people with clean water in the world, there is one person without clean water.
- Most people don’t want a free charity:water wrist band.
- Knife throwing is only interesting for about 10 minutes, and ONLY if it involves a giving money to a cute little girl and her favorite charity.
- Carrots and Sticks are soooooo last century.
- gmail (my favorite email provider) was not created as an assignment. It was just a project birthed by a google employee in corporately mandated creative-time.
- Where NOT to sit at Catalyst (Any of the mid-level corner sections. Lighting fixtures completely obscure your view of the screens)
- There are more slaves in the world today due to human trafficking than there ever have been and on the church’s watch too.
- Aussies (people from Australia) love walmart even more than we do.
- How to spell Australia.
- John Mark McMillan is pretty stinking amazing.
- The Bowl Cut is making a come back.
- Seth Godin is totally ganked his look from the Six Flags guy.
- pro-wrestling is fake, light sabers aren’t hard to build, not many people are really into bowling, cupcake failure is not fatal, and deer kill more people every year than sharks.
- actions that bring us together are at the heart of an economy built on connections.
- Some people come to Catalyst just to play Angry Birds.
- Kari Jobe wears strange head gear.
- You gotta eat it, before you tweet it. (we are passing off so much information we don’t have time to properly absorb it)
- If pride is the graveyard of great leaders, then insecurity is it’s psych ward.
- Do not listen to Francis Chan unless you want your world rocked.
- Francis Chan is not radical. Not at all compared to the stories in Acts. I am tame in comparison to either.
- God wants us to brag… about knowing HIM.
- A lot of what we do in churches is weird.
- We must strive to live a life that would not seem out of place when placed next to the stories in scripture. Proof?
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