{Day 8} Banning Leibscher

Last night we went to the TwinView campus for the first time to begin the Kingdom Culture conference. {As much as they love us School of Worship people, we take up a lot of room. So they have live worship and live speakers - the same speakers who are speaking at Bethel - at TwinView just for us, and any other overflow!}

I'm not sure who led worship last night. Anna (host) said it might have been Ryan and Haylie, but she was just going off the fact that the girl had a English/Australian/South African accent. {I'm getting better about telling them apart...but not that much better, yet.} Brandon and Luke played bass and drums, respectively.

And it was amazing worship. I'm not going to say it was better because it's hard to have "better" worship, but it was definitely good. The element of "omgosh, Jenn Johnson is leading worship!" was gone, and it was just straight up worship with other people who love God. Anyway, it was really good. We did some old songs like "Holy & Anointed One," "Arms of Love," and "The More I Seek You." And we ended with the best bridge:

"I don't want to talk about any other lover/You're the only one 'n' there will be no other for me now/no other for me now."

Apparently it was spontaneous once in Bethel from Steffany Frizzell, and it's stuck around. I wouldn't be surprised to find it in a song someday.

Banning Liebscher {Leeb-sher} spoke. It was my first time to see what he looks like or hear him speak.

Wow.

Let's just say it was a very convicting teaching - perhaps the most convicting of my life, and I've heard a lot of teachings - and I was a bit wrecked at the end. There are going to be some changes, changes that will be better in the long run but that I'm not particularly looking forward to now.

What, you still want highlights?

• "Community is a massive deal, and community is a choice. And there is a war against that choice." - Banning Liebscher
• John 17 is "a prayer of community and oneness."
• Life without grace is a slip-n-slide without water.
• "If community was easy, it would not be a humiliating act." - Banning Liebscher
• "Community flat-out works." - Banning Liebscher
• "The decisions I make in community are safe decisions." - Banning Liebscher
• Sometimes God feels silent because God intends to speak through people.
• "If you're disconnected from community, you've disconnected yourself from the voice of God." - Banning Liebscher
• "The Lord is not going to bypass discipleship." - Kris Vallotton

Then we went to home with another student by a rather interesting route {okay, we were lost for a few minutes}, ended up at McDonalds, where I got french fries. Salty, greasy stuff has been pretty low on my menu, so that was really good. But not exactly what I wanted. I'm still searching for that. I still haven't found what I'm looking for, in terms of salt and grease.

Actually, I think I may be having MSG withdrawals. Which is weird, because I don't eat that much MSG in the first place.

i am turning into my mother
with my protein fix of choice

yes it's my arm. no, it's not a tattoo. but i really like it.

the view when i wake up in the morning.
those lit windows are the bathroom.

Anyway, that was pretty random. We're about to go back to TwinView for a day of more Kingdom Culture, so I will update later!