- Had a great time speaking last night on the United stage to a few hundred rowdy teenagers from the community.
- Since they were there for Next 2 Nothing and the Ryan Payne Band it was hard to get them to settle down…
- …so I had to practically shout the entire message. Luckily though it was only 15 minutes long.
- Two cool things. The closest kids were right up against the front of the stage so it made for easy eye contact…however since I was shouting, who knows how many got spit on.
- The other cool thing was when they heard something they liked they would shout or clap…think the United crowd needs to do more of that…got me even more fired up!
- Speaking of fired up…been getting lots of feedback from Sunday’s message.
- I knew it would be controversial, but that’s a good thing…people are talking and truly evaluating their own motives.
- One regret I have and where most of the “negative” feedback has come from is I forgot to put out a disclaimer that there are legitimate reasons why some people can’t come to the 9:15 Experience….sorry about that.
- It wasn’t until late in our practice Friday night that we decided to switch and have Hannah do the lead vocals on Tears of the Saints…so glad we did…even last night I had teenagers from our church coming up saying how awesome the entire Experience was and how touched they were by Hannah’s singing.
- As great as our music and sound is on Sunday’s though we learned again last night how much the multi-purpose room is designed for what we do. It is just not a good concert venue for bands to come into…so while last night was fun in some ways…I hope we don’t do any more concerts because number one it’s unfair to the bands.
- Then second it’s incredibly difficult for our volunteer tech teams to try to in a short amount of time take other people’s equipment and try to make it sound good. We know the limitations of the room and have had to buy for our band special equipment and make some sacrafices to make things sound good, but there is no way a touring band would be willing to do the same. So it’s almost a no-win situation going in which is incredibly frustrating for everyone involved.
- I DVR’d the Maryland bowl game this afternoon and watched it this evening…they won so that helps alleviate any lingering frustration.
- Well almost 11:30…guess I’ll read a little bit then head off to bed…night John-boy.
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