I'm in Chicago for the 2nd day of the Acts 29 church planting boot camp. Mark Dever is here to speak about "Church Planting Evangelism" and I'm here to carry his luggage and be the 9Marks swag monkey. It should be a good time and I'll try to post anything fun and interesting that happens.

The trip out was delayed by snow in Chicago, but I was able to engage Mark D. in a game of "stump the Rainman". The gist of the game is to find a super genius and then subtly pepper them with inane trivia to see how ridiculously smart they are. So we're both reading and without looking up I'd ask something like "Mark, I forget, in what year did they complete the Suez Canal?". And then without looking up he'd distractedly say "Well, there's evidence of an east-west river being dug in Egypt to connect the Nile and Red Sea as early as the 13th century BC, but what you're thinking of as the Suez Canal was opened in November of 1869." You get a point for each question asked and answered without the Rainman realizing what you're doing. Lather, rinse, repeat during the whole trip.

Anyway, hopefully more later.