Skye and I are at reFOCUS, Moody Bible Institute’s pastors’ conference, this week. Skye is leading a breakout session, and I’m making the rounds to see what’s what.
This is my first time at a Moody event. The last conference I attended was Catalyst (last month), and this is quite a different experience. We haven’t made it to a general session, so I can’t say much about the difference in content. But this conference is clearly aimed at a different demographic. At Catalyst, I saw more skinny jeans than I’d ever seen in one place before. Here–I’ve seen no man purses or boy bangs. The standard dress is polos and khakis. And, as the wardrobe might suggest, the crowd skews older.
The breakout sessions offer a little something for everyone. While Skye was talking about his book to one group of pastors, I slipped into to a presentation by Douglas Beaumont. He was talking about his book The Message Behind the Movie, in which he calls Christians to take their brains with them to the movies.
We’re looking forward to sessions by Andy Crouch, among others, the afternoon and to John Piper in the general session tonight.
