Messing With Texas: Some C3 Takeaways

We got back from C3 safe and sound last weekend, unless you count the hot flu-strep combo that struck P Mac and most of CS4 (side note: I have been in a varying degree of sickness the past 3 weeks - the last of those on some ineffective antibiotics… I think I have SARS - is that still around?). Here are few takeaways from the big D:

- Airport Bingo should be a mandatory game on business trips.
So should Sugar Pants.

- American Airlines can’t spell Hollingsworth right, which almost made my flight reservation non-existent. Conspiracy Theorists agree that Shannon Yates had something to do with it.

- I left my luggage at Avis and I, along with a small caravan of faithful friends, had to trek back to the Dallas Fort Worth Airport to get it. This is why I don’t have nice things. But I do have nice friends.

- Fellowship Church is gigantic.

- The production level there is through the roof.

- I think Elevation is spoiled with our volume levels.

- We’re also spoiled with the Pastor we get to hear every week. We’re like a crowd at the Apollo when Pastor Steven is not in the pulpit.

- Perry Noble brought the heat along with all of his home run jokes. He made the south look like more than a bunch of clueless rednecks.

- Bryan Houston from Hillsong Australia is dynamic and genuine, and with that accent I badly wanted him to have a curly moustache and/or a monocle.

- Say what you want about the empire he’s built, TD Jakes is giant man and one of the most engaging, anointed speakers I’ve ever heard. He was like a wound-up top that spun for an hour straight without taking a breath. I couldn’t write fast enough to get down all of his points. He spoke from Luke 24:13-31 about the order of the breaking of bread and about 30 minutes in, the whole audience had a Beautiful Mind moment, connecting many great stories of the Bible with our own lives along a single theme of how Jesus broke bread in this story: Took it, Blessed it, Broke it, and Gave it. Awesome stuff.

- I want a photo booth. Put it on the “Hot List of Unnecessary Items I’d Buy If I Won Some Power Ball Millions.”

- American Airlines stole my utility knife. And by “stole,” I mean confiscated it for safety purposes out of my carry-on bag. It was probably a good thing I didn’t tell them that the TSA in Charlotte didn’t mind me carrying a knife on the plane. Those over-cautious Texans.

- If you see Mack Brock around sporting a new “Johnny Tremain” pony tail, you can thank me for that.

Here’s a visual companion to this Cliff’s Notes list.

no, it’s not a soccer team, just some hot matching track jackets - walking in with style.

a quaint little worship auditorium…

it sits a few people

some good seats

T.D. Jakes is a giant man

p.s. The blogging slump is officially over. Back to twice a week. Fo sho.