My Top 10 Reasons You Should Attend the Emergent Convention

First disclaimer: I've done work for YS,  I adore the folks there and consider them friends, I am biased in my views on the product I am about to plug and I am shamelessly using the rather small milk carton I have here at the Corner to shill, a clear violation of the bloggers' code of anti-capitalist cool hep cat ethos.

We need to get together in person, like they did in the old days before wires and Internets and cell phones and voice-mail. We need a party for all of us mis-shaped  followers of Jesus.  We need it like a steak needs parsley, like a glove compartment always has ketchup packets, like heroines have swelling theme music, like sitcoms need very special episodes, like a Ford Ranchero has to have one brown door and a distinct odor.

We need to spend 4 days in sun-soaked San Diego, home of Ron Burgundy,  just hanging out and listening to one another - playing buzzword bingo, staying up late reorganizing the global church while ingesting the finest truffles 7-11 has to offer, debating just how missional or multi-cultural or intentional we could be if shucked the candles, coffee & tax exemption for the type of ministry Cephas did.

We need to talk with - wait a minute, even worship with - the very people our parents warned us about - the rebels, the geeks, the rabblerousers, the cloud gazers, the flip-floppers, the gerrymanders, the jesters and the people with ginormous brains who have reading all those books from dead Europeans that we've pretended to read for years.

If I have not yet convinced you that you should not wait one more minute before you click over to here to register yourself for the emergentYS Convention, which starts in San Diego on 2/2 and ends on 2/5, then allow me to present

My Top 10 Reasons To Go To The Emergent Convention

10. Andy Crouch Hair Salon

9. Great Chance To Harass (And/Or Simultaneously Interview With) The Senior Pastors At NPC.

8. Crowder Groupie Support Group Meets In Convention Hotel Phone Booth

7. Where Else Can You Eat Fish Tacos While Doing Yoga And Still Claim It As Spiritual Formation ?

6. Watch Bloggers Flitter Like Moths Around Single Wifi Outlet

5. No Matter What You Believe Or What ‘Tat You Have Or What Piercing You Have Or How Big Your Facial Hair Is, There's Bound To Be At Least One Person There Who Will Deconstruct You.

4. Free Wine at Saturday Worship (Bread Bonus If You Must)

3. Worship Gatherings Done Nude & In Mime <top that, you Banger 'n Mash loving alties>

2. Post-Evangelicals Tug ‘O War With Pre-Evangelicals - Winner Plays In Saddleback Tourney

1. Two Words: Fog Machine

Second disclaimer: None of the above is true (I think) - I am just eager to motivate you in any way I can to click over to here to register yourself for the emergentYS Convention, which starts in San Diego on 2/2 and ends on 2/5.

Comments

[D. Goodmanson]

I can't make it but will there be recordings of the diff't events?

[dave paisley]

Well I'll be there - first timer that I will be. And now we have a guaranteed Jen Lemen too (thanks to Lemenaid).

[Benjy (groovythpstr)]

Hey, looking forward to my 3rd year in a row hanging out with great people like yourself. Who else will be blogging besides us? I think desertpastor will be as well.

[lillylewin]

i second tony's nomination! great post!
looking forward to seeing you there and hovering around the wifi with you!
no need for rv parking in the convention center in san diego....we'll have to find alternative seating in the smaller venues!
see you there! lilly

[tony]

Bob, I was starting to think that you had lost your edge, that you had been reduced to "12-Day-of-Christmas picture shares." But this post has reconfirmed my faith in humanity. I hereby nominate you for a Golden Globe.

Tony