{"id":112,"date":"2008-10-09T22:54:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T02:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidcprice.wordpress.com\/?p=112"},"modified":"2008-10-09T22:54:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T02:54:58","slug":"catalyst-conference-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/catalyst-conference-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalyst Conference, Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I really don’t know that I can adequately put into words all that I’ve experienced today.\u00a0 After a very challenging day getting down here and actually getting to the conference, I understood why things prior to the conference would come with such difficulty:\u00a0 God had some radical things to teach me that could make an incredible impact in the life of our church and opposition always precedes that.<\/p>\n

Due to sheer exhaustion, it will have to suffice to say that my experience was characterized by heart-break over stuff I know that breaks the heart of God such as being confronted with the realities of things like human slavery, sex-trafficking (especially among children), poverty, starvation and other injustices our heads are so easily turned from.\u00a0 I am not only broken over them, I am determined to be a part of the solution and will lead our church in that direction.\u00a0 Just another part of “The Gathering Storm” I discussed two posts ago, I suppose.\u00a0 I am thankful that we have someone like Caleb Lange in our church who God has already placed a burden on to actively get involved with combating this through a new organization called sixty1<\/a> (I may have mentioned this in an earlier post, not sure).\u00a0 This is a direct way we can support combating this type of horrid injustice that the Church should be leading the charge on.<\/p>\n

It seems as though the pieces of this gathering storm are starting to fall into place and I’m amazed at how God uses so many different things to bring about His good purpose.\u00a0 I want to encourage you to rethink how Christians have responded to social injustices in the past and, hopefully, come to the realization like I have that we have done a poor job of taking care of the least of these.\u00a0 I am encouraged by so many thousands who want to see feet put to solid theology.\u00a0 For far too long, we’ve worked to protect the doctrinal integrity of the Word (which is essential) to the detriment of fulfilling it’s mission.\u00a0 It is time we work to find balance between what Andy Stanley this morning called creed and deed.\u00a0 That is to say, we have to make sure we’re putting feet to what we say we believe and fulfill the priorities of Christ.<\/p>\n

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I really don’t know that I can adequately put into words all that I’ve experienced today.\u00a0 After a very challenging day getting down here and actually getting to the conference, I understood why things prior to the conference would come with such difficulty:\u00a0 God had some radical things to teach me that could make an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[74,684,288,427],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3jKZO-1O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":93,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/the-gathering-storm\/","url_meta":{"origin":112,"position":0},"title":"The Gathering Storm","date":"October 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday was a great day worshiping at thegathering.\u00a0 Music was spectacular and I enjoyed bringing a challenge for us to become \"The Gathering Storm,\" taking on injustice, hopelessness and meaningless in Chattanooga.\u00a0 I am encouraged by the spirit of those who make up thegathering and looking forward to how God\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Church"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":109,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/catalyst\/","url_meta":{"origin":112,"position":1},"title":"Catalyst","date":"October 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I leave for Catalyst later today in Atlanta.\u00a0 If there is time, I plan on posting at least a couple of thoughts and reflections from the conference throughout (maybe at least some short ones with the Blackberry).\u00a0\u00a0 Really looking forward to the spiritual retreat and feeding this should provide.\u00a0 There's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Personal"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":587,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/catalyst-bound-the-countdown-has-begun\/","url_meta":{"origin":112,"position":2},"title":"Catalyst Bound…the countdown has begun.","date":"October 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Stay tuned here beginning tomorrow.\u00a0 I'll be doing some live-blogging from Catalyst 09.\u00a0 Conference is starting Thursday morning bright and early, so Karen and I, along with other staff members and spouses, will be heading down to Atlanta sometime tomorrow. 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