As mentioned in my previous blog, I've been to a conference these past couple of days. It was very good.
But, I have a bit of a complaint to make.
Before I begin, let me just explain something.. I have been to numerous conferences (hey, before you read on... I am NOT a name dropper, if you know me or anything about me, you will know my heart and hopefully understand that is not my intention) with some of the big cheeses. I've led schools weeks with 'big' names in the Christian arena.. I was part of a Church which had some of the "big names", it really is NO BIG DEAL.there are no 'big names' in the Kingdom.
Now, I will say that there are people who go to conferences and want to touch the visiting speaker, they will do anything to speak to him/her. I get embarrased for these people... 'speaker chasers' I like to call them. There are a lot of Christians out there like this..
That said, I want to SHOUT at people who answer my question of "oh, do you know who is speaking tonight?" with a sharp "well, it DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHO IT IS DOES IT??"...as if I'm saying it's who it is that matters!!! In all honesty, YES I do have favourite speakers who I can relate to and there are speakers I find extremely difficult to follow. And, that is perfectly OK!!
Why is it that Christians are so quick to thinking that ALL Christians want to suck up to a preacher?? We even had one guy on Friday night accuse my friend of wanting to 'eye-ball' the speaker just because we didn't want to sit in a flippin OVERFLOW room and wanted to sit in the main room!! My response to this guy was "um, well she's married to a preacher so why would she want to eyeball another one??!".
Some people are so flippin quick to presume and it really irritates me!
Yeah, there are speaker chasers out there... but, I am NOT one of them. And, if I ask 'who is speaking tonight?' it doesn't mean that I base all of my opinion if God will move on whichever speaker it is, it just means I find some speakers easier to follow.
Bloody Christians: do my head in.
3 comments:
The world of the Christian celebrity is a little bizarre. I went to a gig last night of a not totally unknown Christian artist. We have emailed each other before and I have followed the guy's music for 20 years. On the global scale of things he's no big fish. However I didn't go up and speak to him although I wanted to give him some positive vibes.
Why? Because I didn't want him to think I was some kind of stalker. But if he was not a crispie, I would have just joined the queue or said hello.
Oh and if I had any names to drop I would drop them. I once played alongside Kevin Prosch that's about it.
yeah... it's hard for people to find the happy medium and even harder for people to believe that someone has.
I once hung out with dc talk for a whole weekend... they are huge celebrities ya know. ;)
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