Mission Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/category/mission/ AUTHOR | SPEAKER | MISSIOLOGIST | AGITATOR Tue, 12 Jul 2022 02:08:17 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://i0.wp.com/mikefrost.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-MF.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Mission Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/category/mission/ 32 32 116298986 Was The Church Growth Movement Racist? https://mikefrost.net/was-the-church-growth-movement-racist/ https://mikefrost.net/was-the-church-growth-movement-racist/#comments Sun, 10 Jul 2022 22:25:02 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=32136 I started out in Christian ministry in the 1980s. It was the era of the Walkman, acid wash jeans, Miami Vice, Chernobyl, and the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. It was also the period that the Church Growth Movement exploded across the world. Today, I have as much trouble explaining the influence […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/was-the-church-growth-movement-racist/feed/ 5 32136 The Micro-Shift That Could Be a Gear Changer for Your Church https://mikefrost.net/the-micro-shift-that-could-be-a-gear-changer-for-your-church/ https://mikefrost.net/the-micro-shift-that-could-be-a-gear-changer-for-your-church/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2022 22:04:39 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=32124 In the Nicene Creed, Christians declare our belief in the four key attributes of the church when we say, “[We believe] in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church.” They are recited in the liturgies of the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Assyrian Church of the East, the Moravian Church, […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/the-micro-shift-that-could-be-a-gear-changer-for-your-church/feed/ 8 32124 Evangelism – the lost art of telling three stories, not one https://mikefrost.net/evangelism-the-lost-art-of-telling-three-stories-not-one/ https://mikefrost.net/evangelism-the-lost-art-of-telling-three-stories-not-one/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2021 21:45:51 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=30633 Remember when your church used to run evangelism training seminars where everyone was taught how to share their faith via a memorized script or a tract or a series of provocative questions (“If you were to die tonight…” gulp)? I remember attending courses like that and I couldn’t help but feel like a door-to-door salesman […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/evangelism-the-lost-art-of-telling-three-stories-not-one/feed/ 12 30633 How do you find Jesus in the neighborhood? https://mikefrost.net/how-do-you-find-jesus-in-the-neighborhood/ https://mikefrost.net/how-do-you-find-jesus-in-the-neighborhood/#comments Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:39:49 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=29355 It’s becoming more common these days for people to talk about finding out what God is doing in your neighborhood and joining God in that work. A few years ago, Alan Roxburgh wrote a book called Missional, which had the subtitle, Joining God in the neighborhood. He said, “What is God up to in our […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/how-do-you-find-jesus-in-the-neighborhood/feed/ 5 29355 The mainstream church needs feisty, determined, experimental communities https://mikefrost.net/the-mainstream-church-needs-feisty-determined-experimental-communities/ https://mikefrost.net/the-mainstream-church-needs-feisty-determined-experimental-communities/#comments Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:19:44 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=29141 In 2017, in the lead up to International Women’s Day, sculptor Kristen Visbal installed a piece of guerrilla art on the pedestrian island right where Broadway splits at Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan. Her sculpture was titled Fearless Girl, a four-feet tall depiction of a defiant ten-year-old girl, her feet planted firmly on the ground, […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/the-mainstream-church-needs-feisty-determined-experimental-communities/feed/ 11 29141 Dinner Church, anyone? https://mikefrost.net/dinner-church-anyone/ https://mikefrost.net/dinner-church-anyone/#comments Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:24:25 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=29106 There was quite a reaction to one of my recent blog posts about Fresh Expressions in Leicester, England, and how we need new ways of doing and being church today. I’ve had quite a lot of interest in what these new ways could look like. I’ve even been interviewed by radio stations around the world […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/dinner-church-anyone/feed/ 25 29106 New kinds of churches really are the hope of the future https://mikefrost.net/new-kinds-of-churches-really-are-the-hope-of-the-future/ https://mikefrost.net/new-kinds-of-churches-really-are-the-hope-of-the-future/#comments Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:32:03 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=29074 This week I came across two news stories from different Anglican dioceses on opposite sides of the world, one of which heartened me greatly. DECLINE IN SYDNEY The first story wasn’t the one that heartened me. It was from the Diocese of Sydney entitled “Behind the decline in Church attendance”, and in it, Anglican priest, […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/new-kinds-of-churches-really-are-the-hope-of-the-future/feed/ 45 29074 God is a fountain of sending love https://mikefrost.net/god-is-a-fountain-of-sending-love/ https://mikefrost.net/god-is-a-fountain-of-sending-love/#comments Tue, 17 Sep 2019 21:29:22 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=29056 Who doesn’t love a fountain? Fountains are extravagantly, unceasingly festive. Whether it’s the continuous trickle of Rome’s Trevi fountain, or the exuberant bursts of the Bellagio fountain in Las Vegas, a fountain is a thing of joy. Some fountains are flashy and show-offy, like Seoul’s Banpo Bridge Moonlight Rainbow. Others, like New York’s Bethesda fountain […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/god-is-a-fountain-of-sending-love/feed/ 2 29056 Is your church a lawn or a forest floor? https://mikefrost.net/is-your-church-a-lawn-or-a-forest-floor/ https://mikefrost.net/is-your-church-a-lawn-or-a-forest-floor/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:24:41 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28500 Suburban people love lawn. We cut it, fertilize it, trim it, edge it. Some people even color it. No matter how good your own lawn might be, there’s nothing like the twinge of covetousness and admiration you feel when walking past the lawn-keeping skills of a grandmaster. We love it so much we think nothing […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/is-your-church-a-lawn-or-a-forest-floor/feed/ 11 28500 This missionary’s portrait hung in honor until they found out who he really was https://mikefrost.net/this-missionarys-portrait-hung-in-honor-until-they-found-out-who-he-really-was/ https://mikefrost.net/this-missionarys-portrait-hung-in-honor-until-they-found-out-who-he-really-was/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2018 10:12:37 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28284 This stunning painting was made by the British artist, James Barry, in London in 1820. For nearly a hundred years, it hung in pride of place in the hallowed mahogany-panelled halls of the Church Missionary Society’s London headquarters. That was because the powers-that-be in the Church Missionary Society (CMS) had mistakenly believed it depicted the […]

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