This past week, I spent a day at WestGate Church for the Unleashed Conference. The folks at WestGate were amazing and reminded me that mainliners have a ton to learn from evangelicals when it comes to hospitality and event organizing. It was really well done.
I primarily went so I could hear Len Sweet, having never heard him before (and I’ve actually never read a Len Sweet book, if you can believe that). And getting a chance to hear him give a talk and then sit in on his breakout group was totally worth the cost of the event. Great stuff about communication, language, metaphors, our culture today, and what the church needs to be doing that it’s not.
As there was a lot of talk about metaphors, one of the predominant metaphors used by male speakers Ben Arment and Disney artist Noah (I have no idea if he has a last name), was that of being warriors. Noah has even started up a Fight Club as a form of discipleship for men.

