church growth movement Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/church-growth-movement/ 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 church growth movement Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/church-growth-movement/ 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 Coronavirus could set the church back 25 years https://mikefrost.net/coronavirus-could-set-the-church-back-25-years/ https://mikefrost.net/coronavirus-could-set-the-church-back-25-years/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:42:43 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=29442 Twenty-five years ago, I began warning the church about its overemphasis on “attractional” strategies — that is, the come-to-us stance taken by many churches influenced by the church growth movement back then. I wasn’t the only one, I know. Other voices made similar pleas, urging church leaders to resist the temptation to become more like […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/coronavirus-could-set-the-church-back-25-years/feed/ 35 29442 Body Count Syndrome: How both the Vietnam War and the Church Growth Movement failed https://mikefrost.net/body-count-syndrome-vietnam-war-church-growth-movement-failed/ https://mikefrost.net/body-count-syndrome-vietnam-war-church-growth-movement-failed/#comments Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:49:39 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=27538 I’ve been watching Ken Burns’ new documentary series, The Vietnam War. It’s ten hours of unrelenting political/military folly and unadulterated human misery. But it’s fascinating. I was intrigued to discover in Episode 4 that one of the biggest challenges for US military leaders in Vietnam was figuring out how to assess their progress (or lack […]

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