The Living a Better Story Seminar is just over a month away and we already have more than 350 people signed up! We couldn’t be more excited. More than 500 people entered our contest to be flown out for the seminar, and we will be announcing the winner on September 1st.
In a way, the seminar will be like a reunion of people who have never met, if such a thing is possible. Fans of the books and blog along with folks who are just looking to energize their story are descending on Portland September 26th and 27th.
If you haven’t registered yet, please sign up today!
If you’ve already signed up, prepare to closely analyze the major decisions and turns of your life as a way of exploring how God wired you so that, together, we can discover what the best story for your life might be. God used the stories of peoples lives as His primary way of communicating to the world, and we will be looking at the way God interacted with characters such as Joseph, Paul, Moses and a few others who will join me on stage.
In the Seminar, you’ll learn to see how God has always been involved in your story, you’ll learn where His leadership interacts with your personal responsibility and how much of our lives is a wrestling for control over our futures, a control that must ultimately be given over to God. And yet, we will also learn how much God loves for us to dream, to want and desire and to create a better world for ourselves and for those around us.
But you won’t learn all of this by listening to me lecture. I’ll do plenty of that, but I will also be interviewing guests, and we’ve even rented another facility nearby where we will have some fun “off the schedule.”
A good story is about something. Scott Pilgrim is about a guy who wants a girl. Inception is about planting an idea via a dream. Toy Story is about a group of toys reuniting with their owner. What is your story about? Is it clear? Are you making decisions that make it clear? Are you wandering? Is your story wandering. These are the very difficult questions we want to tackle at the seminar itself. Come with a pen, a computer, a journal, a Bible and an open mind. Lets live better stories because the world lives on stories, and it’s consuming stories that aren’t as good as the one you can live with your life.
If you’ve never experienced Portland in the fall, get on a plane and come join us. You are going to have a great time.
See you soon.
