Why I went to church today

For the second time this century organzing a concert resulted in me in the pew the following Sunday. This time it was First Baptist of Boulder's Slaynard Yarborough that captured my fascination. I met him while scheduling my DNC fundraiser recital. While I am a cool kid, and I know that becuase of how hard I had to work to become one, I still have some nerd tendecies. Particularly I'm a sucker for academics. After spending an hour talking about politics, life, the universe, everything, the number 42 . . . I decided I had to see this guy give a sermon. I was equally impressed with his ability to relate the theme of his sermon "if you wait for perfect, you'll never get anything done" to current geo-political events and his own campaign for the job. And I mean that in the most positive light, the very fact that I was there to hear his words was proof that he does know how to communicate outside the flock and perhaps in doing so increase the flock. I don't know when the next time I'll go to church will be, nor whether First Baptist will choose this brilliant, yet subtle and certianly persausive Pastor as their next leader, but I do know that if there were more leaders like him, spiritual and otherwise, we'd get a lot more done, meanwhile we in the flock are best minded to sow today lest our patience for perfection cause us to miss our opportunity to reap.

Submitted poolside, if you don't have an iPhone, get one.