I’ll be brief.
As much as I like the Story Conference, I disliked the workshops on the following day.
I really loved Skye Jethani, author of Divine Commodity. But I knew going in that I would like him. He did a great talk on preaching vs. teaching, and Dallas Williard’s VIM model. This may be the thing that I’ll be pondering/thinking about the most after attending. (He should have been a speaker on the previous day!)
I also thought Ron Martoia’s talk was good and may have been challenging for some. However, one could have read Scot McKnight’s Blue Parakeet, and gotten most of the same content. I was amused by the fact that after Martoia spoke, the conference director got up and made some qualifying statements about truth and the Bible… he must have been a little nervous about Martoia’s content.
I don’t want to dwell on this, and I don’t want to be a critic, but I’ll just say, a good chunk of the Story Workshops seemed to be about church communications and branding which is just not where I live. I found myself looking at the options at various points and feeling like I didn’t want to go to any of them. I probably wouldn’t go back to the workshops portion — especially without knowing in advance what the workshops will be.
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Written by Charlie Dean
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