I have known of the Catalyst event that happens in Atlanta each year for a while, but only recently have got caught up on it and what is really happening with it. I got to hang out with Brad Lomenick who leads the event and mission of it when I was speaking at North Point Church recently in Atlanta.
I am going back again to North Point in August to speak at the 7/22 gathering that happens on Tuesday nights. The night I am speaking, it will also be the release of Charlie Hall's new CD and he will be there leading the music. So that should be a fun night and I look forward to hanging out with Jarrett Stevens and seeing the other North Point staff I got to know when there last.
When I met with Brad, I loved hearing Brad's heart for the Catalyst event, and how it has amazingly has developed over the years. They are looking at developing a west-coast Catalyst soon which will benefit those of us over here for sure.
I was recently asked by Jesse on the Catalyst team to write an article for the Catalyst web site e-zine. What came to mind to write about was the importance of theological thinking for leaders in churches. It is what I have been really thinking about a lot lately, and even spent 3.5 hours talking about it at Willow Creek's Shift Conference last week in the workshop I led. In a culture of rapid change and idea sharing, we need to all the more be thinking theologically as we lead our churches.
I did write a blog entry recently that talked a little about this, but here is the article on the Catalyst web site that I wrote. They named it "Sticks and Stones".
I also just looked at the whole Catalyst web site when looking at the posted article, and it is really quite a plethora of information for leaders. So I will be returning to it for sure, as they really are engaging what leadership in our emerging culture is about.
OK... hope the article is interesting and encouraging and check out the rest of the Catalyst web site.
