YMCA Celebration Prayer Breakfast
March 20, 2008 by Randy
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Alan Chambers, Tony Campolo and myself.
The problem was I hit my snooze alarm to many times and didn’t get out of bed until 5:47 am and blasted through getting ready, jumped in the car in *pouring* rain, drove in some serious traffic in the pouring rain. Forgot my umbrella, had to park out in the middle of no where, ran to the Hall where the breakfast was being hosted and got there right at 7:00 am
I showed up half asleep, soaking wet, out of breath and … the subject of the morning?
Joy ::: perfect :::
Some of my critics might try to make some hay about Mrs. Campolo’s promotion of pro-gay ideology and Tony’s disagreements, not as opposed as his wife, with us about homosexuality. He believes the behavior is sinful but doesn’t think people can change. It is probably more nuanced than that but I don’t really want to get into that in this post. Just like life, the man has more to offer than a few disagreements about one issue.
His first book, The Kingdom of God is a Party, was the first book I read as a Christian. It really encouraged me and I love his heart in the book. I also enjoyed seeing him share his heart today. The dude is very funny. Some of the people at our table said that it was one of the best keynotes they had ever heard. I wouldn’t go that far because I had heard it several times before. That said, I thought it was very cool to get to see him and get a picture with him.
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When I was a senior in high school, my dad took me to see Tony Campolo preach. He captured my attention and continues to do so today. I count him as one of my spiritual mentors.
That is cool J.