Thursday review

To summarize the day-

The day started off with a 3 mile run for me. I ran in two states today...Ohio and Kentucky. The bridge that connects the two states is about a five minute jog from our hotel, so we crossed the bridge, ran Kentucky for about 15 minutes, and jogged back into Ohio. Nathan, if you are reading this, we ran past the Cincinnati Bengal stadium.

Opening session was some worship time and a precious hour with JP (John Perkins) leading Bible Study. If I had to give his study a title today, it would be "back to the basics". John spoke of the crisis in the Church today as being one of a lack of discipline and discipleship. Knowing the Word of God, living out the Word in obedience, confession, and prayer as listening to God. He used 1 John 1 and 2 as the text.

Wayne Gordon gave a good word this morning using 1 Samuel 15:1-35, the text where God had asked Saul to annihilate a people and their possessions, but Saul spared Agog and the best of the spoils he did not destroy. He then tried to justify his disobedience and live as if partial obedience was to be respected. Gordon spent time talking about partial disobedience to the Word of God is disobedience straight up. And if anything is going to derail ccda, it's our disobedience to the full Word of God.

The evening session's speakers were Gabriel Saguero, senior pastor at Lamb's Church in Manhatten, and Jim Wallis, leader of Sojourners. Both were excellent. Both spoke on synergy and how we must be about this walk and work together. I'll likely bring home cd's or dvd's of many of the main sessions if you'd care to borrow and listen after our return home. The picture at the top of this post is of a group of young ballerinas called Cure City Princesses who danced this evening in the main session.