Pastor Jojo Henson of Malaysia said something that got stuck in my head yesterday in Victory Caloocan. He mentioned how Peter asked Jesus if they could make tents in the Mount of Transfiguration so they could stay there with Moses and Elijah. You’ve probably heard this a dozen times already but in light of the excitement and afterglow of the EN2010, I think this message never gets old. The idea is that Peter was so overwhelemd with the presence of two prominent Old Testament figures that he wondered aloud if they could just stay there and bask in the glory of the moment.

There was nothing wrong with the request. Peter probably did it in good faith, I mean, who wouldn’t want to just sit back and enjoy the glory of God’s presence? If it were me, I would probably feel the same way as Peter. The fact is that whenever we experience something glorious, our natural tendency is to hold on to it and never let it go.

Darlene’s most quoted statement for the week, “if you can’t sing well, just sing louder” became a fodder for Facebook and Twitter updates since Friday. It was funny and revealing at the same time. Worship has never been so much about music. When you really think it through, God is actually more interested with what’s going on in your heart than the tune you carry. As Darlene said, we seek to raise up disciples who submit to the Lordship of Christ, not celebrities with rock star complex. This word is especially powerful coming from the mouth of someone who is so well known around the world. It gives us a bit of an idea of how the Hillsong team operates behind the curtains.

The communion of the nations, in my opinion, was one of the most significant events in the conference. It was not a very moving part of the program, in fact, it just felt like any Sunday communion that I’ve ever had. What made it different (and special) was the physical presence of different nationalities inside one building. When you think of the diversity and unity in the body of Christ, there’s no better way to picture it than when you see different skin colors, hairstyles, heights and accents put together in a single room, saying Amen in unison and partaking of the communion elements all at the same time. It was so powerful and symbolic for me.

The preacher from India and the pastor from a restricted country both shared powerful messages that are too long to recount here. (Again, you can listen to the full podcasts at EN2010.com). The one major point that I got out of their messages was the unique way they both encountered Jesus. One of them met God in the rain (and got saved through a McDonalds hamburger) while the other felt His touch as he was left on the side of the road, dying.

These testimonies are emotionally moving but what made them more interesting and more dramatic was the fact that the guy from the restricted country met Jesus through a Filipino missionary. This simple bit of information was enough to drive me to tears. It made me think of World Partners Program and little things we can do to help send missionaries abroad.

It’s the second day of Every Nation World Conference. What happened last night pushed me to raise my expectations of what God is about to do in Every Nation family. The way I see it, we are just getting started. We are barely scratching the surface of what God has in store for this movement. No I’m not talking about the three-day event. I am talking about what He is about to do the moment our delegates head back to the airport to get to their homes.

In more than two decades of ministry, God blessed the Every Nation family of churches beyond humanly possible. What I saw yesterday in the parade of nations was not something one person can do. The striking part was the fact that when you try and summarize what was happening, you can’t really pin point one single person taking the center stage. It wasn’t Steve Murrell, Rice Broocks, Joey Bonifacio, Jim Laffoon or anyone else. It was Jesus Christ!

It’s already late. My laptop clock tells me it’s way past my sleeping hours. Twenty minutes to 2AM and I am wide awake. I just got back from the opening of Every Nation World Conference, the famous #EN2010 we’ve been tweeting about in the last couple of months. Tonight was the night I was part of something this big and the thoughts that are running in my head wouldn’t let me go to sleep unless I write them down to document what kind of day it was.

I will not dwell on how great the venue was or how advanced the technology we used. That would just trivialize the event to the point of being vain. I also would like to refrain from using words like “excited, excellent, great, amazing, and awesome. They’re like broken records already. Everybody’s excited, everybody’s saying it was awesome and great and excellent and amazing and all that. But what really happened there? How does it look like in the eyes of a regular Joe like myself?