This is David Fitch and Ed Stetzer having a great conversation about what it means to be a missional church in the secular West. The term “missional” and “Miseo Dei” has gotten pretty muddy these days. It’s become a bit of a junk drawer term that tends to mean “everything we don’t like about modernism and mega-churches”. But this isn’t just a clarifying conversation for those who are confused about the terms. I think it’s a pretty forward thinking conversation.
What I found particularly helpful in this video was the discussion about “attractional” vs. “missional” churches. I like how they both avoid allowing the conversation to degrade into a rehash of the all-too-familiar culture wars debate between the hymn singers and the head bangers.
Check it out. It’s worth your time. But, what I’m really interested in is your thoughts after watching it. This is a topic that the American Church MUST engage in.
Ed Stetzer & David Fitch – a missional conversation from Missional Tribe on Vimeo.
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Pride is a slippery thing. It’s the primary source of all our troubles in this life and is at the heart of Satan’s agenda. After all, it’s why he got booted from heaven in the first place. It causes us to compete when we should cooperate, talk about ourselves when we should be listening to others, seek independence when dependence is what we need, and compare ourselves to others when we should be comparing ourselves to Christ.
Just a short thought for today. I was reading in Acts 28 where Paul was coming into the later period of his ministry. He had succeeded in making all of the Jewish religious leaders really mad talking about Jesus all the time. They thought they had gotten rid of Jesus, and here this Paul guy is keeping the thing alive.
