Tomorrow I'll be heading down to Atlanta for Catalyst - a next generation leaders conference. It's a conference that I've been wanting to go to for the last couple of years & I'm super pumped about being able to go this year.

In prep, I've begun listening to some of the keynote sessions from previous years. Each year's Catalyst delivers some big names: Andy Stanley, Louie Giglio, Bill Hybels, Donald Miller, George Barna, and more. This morning I was listening to Erwin McManus - probably one of my favorite voices pushing the church right now. The message was incredible, but his prayer at the end was even more amazing. Very transparent, no pretension, just honest conversation with His Savior. He ended the prayer with these words - they just stuck with me, so I thought I'd pass them along...

Jesus you are beautiful and magnetic and winsome and lovely... and we have made you look ugly... and uncaring. Oh, God, help us, just to let them see who you really are by living a life worthy of you.