What's wrong with me?

My beautiful bride is addicted to these weird medical shows where the person has some super obscure disease that no one can diagnose. The show follows the clues until a brilliant doctor finally stops ignoring the patient and makes the medical discovery of the century. Obviously from my sarcastic tone I don't share her love for these shows. Lately I have been wondering though what do my symptoms add up too. I am the classic patient in denial. I ignore symptoms and warning signs until I can't hold out any longer.

A couple of weeks ago we had a guest speaker come to our monthly staff meeting and spoke to us about a new book she has authored. Ann Jackson (www.flowerdust.net) was in town for a unique student service we were doing and honestly what her book was about had not even crossed my mind. As it turns out she may be my brilliant doctor. The title of her book is Mad Church Disease - think Mad Cows but with pastor types. I am only a little ways into the book but so far I think I may be infected. It is with great hope and anxiousness that I read on hoping it is not fatal. Recently I have found myself wondering a lot of the things that she herself wondered during her experience and so I am identifying with it a lot. Hopefully from this will come great revelation that I can share with you all (both of you!).

As a side note I traveled to Tulsa,Ok and visited a church there - The Kirk of the Hills (www.thekirk.com). I got to be apart of a presentation on some leadership stuff. It was tons of fun and great to meet other church leaders who are following God's lead into strange and wonderful new things. I suffered from facility envy when I saw their awesome student ministry space! On the plane journey home (6 hour plane delay!) I picked up a fun book to read - Angels & Demons which turns out is the prequel to the Da Vinci Code. Great book - can't wait to see the movie now. Figured since I was doing book reviews I would include that.