Mulhouse

Pronounced 'mool-huss'.
It's a place, and we were invited to the conference by our pastor because our pastor from the UK was the guest speaker. He was speaking to pastors on leading the church by faith. A good title, as he himself said, because what is not of faith is sin - and leading the church in sin is not the right idea.
So he spoke of the need to follow the Bible in its directions and to have a close relationship with its author. For this you need to believe what it says, particularly for your daily lifestyle, and to have a good prayer life. Faith in the word, counselling by the Word, were key topics for which pastor Colin had many strong examples.
But this is France and the French like to debate. So included in these 2 days were other speakers who came from rather different angles. So much so that to introduce the speaker after pastor Colin's first talk, the host felt he had to say, "That was a great sermon on faith, but we have to live in the real world."
Now I very much doubt that pastor Colin heard this because he had already left. What is more it was said in French and pastor Colin speaks very little French (great for us because we could listen directly to him and others had to hear the translation). But the next day, after much of the night in prayer, he said some interesting things:
"This is not theory, this is a lifestyle."
"Try telling a Frenchman that his opinions don't matter. The good thing about your opinions is that they die with you, but the Word of God lives forever."
Overall we (June and I) were very uplifted by his messages. But we did come away with the impression that the French considered that he spoke well, but so did the others; and that whilst they had spotted the difference they were interested in the debate between them rather than having made a decision about their messages.
But I could be wrong about that.