My new friend Bobby Gilles (@bobbygilles on Twitter) just outed me in his latest blog on Sojourn Community Church Music site. It was a fantastic time… overwhelming in some regards as the Holy Spirit flooded me with vision for Sojourn Huntsville. I hopefully will have time to blog a “debrief” of the things I learned and things that left me challenged (or mentally dizzy). I still have several videos and pictures to post. Life has been in full sprint since I got back from Louisville… I guess I can sleep when I am dead.

Heads up. The Sojourn website may very well be offline the next time you load it. This is due to maintenance that I am performing on the website and servers. If the website is ever offline you may want to have a look at our Group page over at Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2211739518

Unfortunately, it appears that you need to have a Facebook account to view the group page. Sorry, but there’s no way around that for now.

I will display a maintenance page to notify everyone that the website is offline. I trust that we won’t lose any data, so feel free to continue commenting and publishing blogs until that time arrives.

Meet Philip, another Sojourner with his own blog Philip’s Tunnel to nowhere.

In my 30+ years as a Christian and fellowshipping with many different great churches all over the world, I don’t think I’ve ever been in any church with as diverse a group of people as Sojourn. And it’s wonderfully liberating. The Body of Christ - as it should be.

Bob

Check out this blog on Church Plants to Watch

Extract:
Sojourn Church - Huntsville, Alabama - David Thew
These guys are meeting in a brewery in downtown Huntsville, the “Seattle of the South”. They are really reaching the area around them in exciting ways, and it’s great to see a church not afraid of the open-hand issues.

Cell-phone lunacy

I may well be the last person on planet earth without a cell phone (although Apple’s new iPhone could possibly change that if it pans out as well as the initial specs indicate.) My determination not to go over to the Dark Side is due in large part to the sheer lunacy exhibited by so many cell phone users, so seemingly powerful is the addiction. I fear becoming one of them. I’m scared of the crack cocaine-like dependency that cell phones seem to have mysterious power to exert.

I wonder if cell-phones aren’t now a bigger cause of traffic accidents than alcohol. I’m thinking of starting the first chapter of F.A.R.C.E. (Fathers Against Reckless Cellphone Enthusiasm.) I can’t count the number of drivers I’ve seen cruise through redlights, sit still at green lights, do 50 mph while in the fast lane on the interstate, turn left with a right turn signal, etc. …… all while merrily chatting away on their indispensable cell phone about the latest trivial piece of gossip.