some of you have heard this story.

a few years ago i managed an office call with Dan Allender of Mars Hill Graduate School. while Dan travels in the McLaren / Emergent circles - he has his own conversation and thoughts on this stuff. I told him about our Mars Hill experiment, which was still developing but oh so promising - i think this was just before the plowing under...

his advice to me -- which i anticipated would be shocking -- didn't fail to disappoint: he said, "beware of success".

i don't know what that means -- but it hasn't stopped ringing in my ears.