Ed Young
Wednesday is my day off so I usually don't answer my cell phone if I don't recognize the number. I got a call today from a number I didn't recognize but for some reason I answered it. It was Ed Young's administrative assistant asking if I had a minute to talk to Ed.
Are you kidding me? I've got two days to talk to Ed Young :)
Ended up talking to Ed for about a half hour. It was honestly one of the most enjoyable conversations I've had in a long time. Felt like we were old friends.
Ed pastors Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas. It's a high-impact church that reaches about 18,000 people each weekend. And it's one of those churches that is influencing a ton of churches around the country. For what it's worth, we're part of the Fellowship Connection. In my estimation, Fellowship Church is one of the most creative churches in the history of the church. Can't wait for their C3 conference next January. I'm planning on taking our team. If you're never been you've got to go! I also love the resources availble on creativepastors.com. Great stuff.
Ed is one of guys that I've really admired from a distance. What I'd call a-mentor-at-large. So it was cool to connect. I'm glad I answered my phone :)
Are you kidding me? I've got two days to talk to Ed Young :)
Ended up talking to Ed for about a half hour. It was honestly one of the most enjoyable conversations I've had in a long time. Felt like we were old friends.
Ed pastors Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas. It's a high-impact church that reaches about 18,000 people each weekend. And it's one of those churches that is influencing a ton of churches around the country. For what it's worth, we're part of the Fellowship Connection. In my estimation, Fellowship Church is one of the most creative churches in the history of the church. Can't wait for their C3 conference next January. I'm planning on taking our team. If you're never been you've got to go! I also love the resources availble on creativepastors.com. Great stuff.
Ed is one of guys that I've really admired from a distance. What I'd call a-mentor-at-large. So it was cool to connect. I'm glad I answered my phone :)
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I also feel that way about Pastor Ed. Pastor Andy Stanley and yourself are also mentors-at-large for me. I would be excited if I got a call from you, man if I got a call from Pastor Ed, I would tell to check to see if he dialed the wrong number. :-)
Chris
Did he just call to say hi or are you two scheming some sort of cool church plan?
BTW, I subscribed to all the podcasts you recommended and am slowly making my way through the different pastors. I'll let you know what I think of them once I get to listen to all of them.
Kyle, rarely do two awesome minds just connect to say hi. They can't help to connect their hello's to brain storming pow-wows. It's just who they are.:-) What's great about it is that we always benefit from this.
I definitely like Ed Young's messages but there are few things that he does that concerns me. His commercials for his book show all these different people that say, "I connected with Ed" and "Ed changed my life." I'm generally not turned off by megachurch evangelist preachers, but that commercial gave me the heebee-geebees. Any thoughts?
In all fairness, I'm sure I've done plenty of things that have concerned people :)
All I can offer is my personal take. I found Ed to be totally down-to-earth and a humble servant of Christ. I know few people who are as passionate about reaching people for Christ.
He's very visible because of his books, church, TV program, etc. I think some of your concerns are the natural byproduct of that.
I never want NCC to be a "personality cult." But I also think pastors tend to attract people who connect with their personality, outlook on life, myers-brigg type, etc. It's the human side of church.
I'm grateful for the way God is using Ed. And I'm sure he'd be the first person to say that he wants people to connect with God. But people often connect to God by connecting with one of his servants.
My two cents :)
Mark
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