12 Witnesses

This past Sunday night, Tulsa Metro Association had its annual meeting at Evergreen Baptist Church - planted here almost 8 years ago - in their new building.

The cool thing about TMABC is their Missional Posture. I’ve blogged about this before, so if you want the full detail, check it out. If you don’t want to read the whole deal, it boils down to downsizing bureaucracy and re-investing our partnership money back into the churches. It’s based on the idea that churches are effective in ministry and bureaucracies aren’t.

We have four priorities around which we are organized: Church Strengthening, Staff Support, Leadership Development and Church Planting. We own no entities and are about to sell our building. We have no line items in our budget - each of the priority teams have lump sums that they distribute throughout the year.

One of the best things that we do is continue to equip our Pastors (and therefore our churches) by bringing in phenomenal missional speakers like Ed Stetzer last year, Reggie McNeal a month ago and Milfred Minatrea at this year’s meeting.

We also had Frank Page in this year. He spoke Sunday night and fielded questions for a lunchtime Q&A on Monday. I am always impressed when I talk to Dr. Page. He is honest, humble and kind. He has great hope for the SBC and for the world.

This afternoon, I will post on both of Dr. Page’s sessions. Tomorrow, I will post on Milfred Minatrea’s sessions with us. In fact, I may turn Thursdays into Missional Minatrea Day for a while and unpack some of the things he gave us during the day long session.

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