Off the reservation...

Get 3000 or so preachers together, mix in a couple of hundred lectures and a few thousand ideas, backgrounds, approaches and opinions, along with a culture that encourages radical individualism, and it is really quite amazing that there is not constant bickering and fighting. About once every 5 years or so someone will go totally off the reservation but when you consider all the elements involved the unity, love and peace that exists is much more sensational than the occasional differences. Today, from what I could tell someone had to be pulled back in but I can't remember the last time such happened. Our congratulations to those who put is all together, select topics and speakers and who love the church enough not to be constantly striving to cause an uproar, but serious and challenging study or scripture and approached to the Lord's Work.