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Top 5 musical influences

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Joel Klampert recently blogged about some of the musicians who have influenced him musically.

I thought I would participate in the community effort to share influences.

Before I dole out my 5, I think it is important to note (pun intended) that I didn’t grow up “radically saved”.

In high school (My BC days) my influences were as follows:

1. Primus
2. Mr. Bungle
3. Faith No More
4. Anything by Danny Elfman
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers

So my influences after being “born again” would be as follows:

1. Paul Baloche
2. Hillsong United
3. David Chapin – super encouraging brother who went on to be with the Lord in 2006
4. Matt Redman
5. David Crowder Band

Who has influenced you? Participate in the discussion on Joel’s site here

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Forgecon Part 2: How to be part of the “privileged” class

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I have really been musing on the concepts of serving in the Body of Christ for a while and Forgecon helped me figure out that the best way to serve in the body is to be part of the “priveleged” class. Here are the 3 main buckets people fall into: The Observer (not the bald guy from Fringe), The Servant, and the Prima Donna (a.k.a the “Diva” *shudder*)

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10 Things the Forge conference lacked

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This past weekend I attended “The Forge Conference” in Ocean Grove NJ.

From their website:

The Forge Conference is a melding or forging of two visions God gave to:
Doug Gould, Joel Klampert, Adam Fagan Kela, and Jack Osteen.

Vision one is creating a worship and tech training conference that is small and reasonably priced for teams to come to as well as instilling into attendees the true heart of worship.

Vision two is creating a conference that is designed to make people in ministry get real and get deep. It is a conference that is more like a retreat and deals with the heart issues in ministry and teaches people in the trenches how to make Christ center within the context of relationships.

Those two visions put together creates a conference/retreat that serves the local small church and builds Christ’s church through an atmosphere of Unity in a way that has never been done before.

The Bottom Line is: Training, education, stretching, healing, relationship, unity

Ok, let me get right to the point – What this ‘conference’ lacked:

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