Ignite Denver 4: In Review

I’m pretty sure I’ve signed the heresy documents and should simply pack up my bags and head off to some island country after tonight’s Ignite Denver. You see, my presentation was entitled, “Jesus Freaking In a Social World”.

Yes, I went there. My intent was to talk about what it’s like being a Jesus Freak in a Social world. This would have worked had I taken the time to prepare and allow the subject matter to marinate on the cognitive centers of my cortex. Sadly there was no time to let the Jesus justifying juices soak in and flow forth with wisdom and well thought out consideration.

I was a late entry and had thrown my presentation together late this week. Initial awe at getting the chance to do Ignite Denver 4 was tempered by the cold flash of reality that even at five minutes there’s lots of time to cover with 20 slides at 15 seconds each. This was replaced by abject fear and terror as the time grew closer today in anticipation of the sessions.

Would I say something wrong? Would I freeze up? Would I pratfall up the stairs and awkwardly catapult onto the stage in a mess of limbs and embarrassment? The latter obviously didn’t occur and I managed to avoid freezing up. If nothing else I can stand accused of talking too much. And in my case that can lead some real winning (and losing) witticisms. There’s two that hit twitter as I was speaking and they’re reaction is telling.

via Taj Moore:

And this from: Kevin Reynen:

I’m not sure if the silence was shock, interest in what I was talking about or just simple silent wondering if I;d lost my mind.  I’m curious to see what those that saw Ignite Denver live with me on stage would have to say about my presentation.  Feel free to be as honest and hard as you feel the need to be.  I’d rather hear the truth than some fake truth that simply enables my ego malfunction.

In truth I’ll have to watch the videos as soon as they hit to see what exactly I said.  I know I went off script a few times and probably said some astonishing things about The Church and the Future, but I’m pretty sure it was exactly what I believe that was spoken.

All in all it was a great event with great presenters, a sorta good band that’s still working on their thing and a good chance to meet people you follow on Twitter.

Now I’m off to bed.  It’s 3:15am and I’m liable to type something I’ll regret later,