Greg Linscott

Child of God
Follower of Jesus
Husband to Jennifer
Father of 7
Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Rochester, MN

[Greg Linscott @greglinscott]

@AKofiCup I'm not saying you do. 😁 And corruption happens in small settings too, for sure. But there, you have more potential to be part of the solution.

If you can only make time (or money) for one, do collaboration over big conference. 🤷‍♂️ I've been blessed to sometimes do both.

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@AKofiCup I get it. But collaboration on missions and church planting often accomplishes more than one local church can alone. I love the big conference experience, too. But I may also be contributing to someone’s sense of influence and power who isn’t equipped to handle it. 🤷‍♂️

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@AKofiCup A big conference can make attenders feel a part of something without requiring meaningful investment and accountability. I love big events, but if forced to choose, I will invest in small gatherings where collaboration and deference to each other are uncomfortable realities.

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@AKofiCup It takes the right kinds of people to steward the responsibility well. I felt like T4G did that about as well as anyone, though sadly one of the evidences of that was that they knew when to shutter it.

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@ImKingGinger People like these conferences because they offer independents the feeling of being part of something bigger without requiring submission or cooperation. Affiliation brings accountability and living with things you cannot control or change. Humility and deference are hard to sell.

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@JustinPetersMin @Logos They do market to Catholics too with Verbum. 🤷‍♂️

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@Phil_Johnson_ I mean, you are in SoCal

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@LloydLegalist 😉 Moral of the story: Nothing good ever comes from mixed bathing.

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@LloydLegalist I knew it before Google... Corporate history. 🤷‍♂️

But hey, here's something other than Google. 🤣

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@uganate21 @LloydLegalist

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@TAOvermiller @JoshuaBarzon

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@ScottAniol *churches. 🙂

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@WallStreetSilv The Hawkeye series on Disney plus

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@KirkMiller_ I approve.

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@jaredcwilson I think it's great that some people have attempted to keep songs in circulation in creative ways, even if "we" determine that particular innovation or arrangement is best discarded.

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@jaredcwilson But in the end, people doing new things is always going to have some of this. New isn't always better. Wesley and Watts wrote many more hymns than we sing currently. A few were embraced and have endured, the majority have been discarded.