Last year, the BGCO (Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma) invited Ed Stetzer to speak to leaders as part of our ongoing evangelism push.

Missional Leadership from Ed Stetzer on Vimeo.
Here’s the outline to the video:
Missional Leadership
1) Reconsideration of Leadership
a) From superman to everyone b) From church to kingdom c) From me to we d) From personal [...]

Amazing two minutes of video:

If we are to engage North America as missionaries, then we have got to deconstruct our own context and see it for what it is.  If culture is our god, then we are doomed, but if culture is our language, we can communicate.

Really tough issue.  Like Driscoll, rape incenses me and I have had several close friends who were raped, so my compassion for rape victims is very high.
Here’s how he handled the text message question:

Yep, it’s pretty blunt, but not mean spirited.

I was with some fellow American believers the other day and we were looking through a collection of old songbooks that they had.  Some predated me, but others brought back some songs that I sang as a teenager.  It was somewhat humorous remembering some of the songs that were so shallow from that era. We [...]

Love British humor.
Apparently, BBC doesn’t want their stuff embedded on blogs, so they disabled it.  You can catch it on youtube.

HT: Cole Hedgecock

If you don’t know Milfred Minatrea, you should.  This is some good stuff to get you started.
The Missional Church Center – using the arts to reach people

Attractional or Incarnational?

More Attractional v. Incarnational…

I really had not intention of starting up the IVM dialog again, but I found this video and it soooooo rocks what I’ve been saying about it.
It’s a total rip off of the PC v. Mac commercials, but it’s good.  And short.  Enjoy.