coronavirus Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/coronavirus/ AUTHOR | SPEAKER | MISSIOLOGIST | AGITATOR Tue, 01 Sep 2020 07:09:22 +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 coronavirus Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/coronavirus/ 32 32 116298986 Coronavirus has unveiled the liturgical poverty of evangelicals https://mikefrost.net/coronavirus-has-unveiled-the-liturgical-poverty-of-evangelicals/ https://mikefrost.net/coronavirus-has-unveiled-the-liturgical-poverty-of-evangelicals/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2020 07:09:22 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=29671 If I have to go to another church service and turn to the people around me to discuss something-or-other, I think I’ll cry. Seriously, is that all we’ve got in this period of lockdown? Zoom breakouts and socially distanced groupwork? Without the singing or the preaching, evangelical church services just resemble a staff development day. […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/coronavirus-has-unveiled-the-liturgical-poverty-of-evangelicals/feed/ 10 29671 Where are the true prophets in a time of coronavirus? https://mikefrost.net/where-are-the-true-prophets-in-a-time-of-coronavirus/ https://mikefrost.net/where-are-the-true-prophets-in-a-time-of-coronavirus/#comments Mon, 18 May 2020 12:20:19 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=29487 Remember that old Bible story about the death of King Ahab? He was itching for a fight with the neighboring nation of Aram, so he enlisted the help of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, to march on the city of Ramoth Gilead and recapture it from the Arameans. But Jehoshaphat first wanted to be sure […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/where-are-the-true-prophets-in-a-time-of-coronavirus/feed/ 39 29487 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 Coronavirus is freaking my intellectually disabled sister out https://mikefrost.net/coronavirus-is-freaking-my-intellectually-disabled-sister-out/ https://mikefrost.net/coronavirus-is-freaking-my-intellectually-disabled-sister-out/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:08:51 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=29392 I have a 60-year-old sister named Joanne. She lives with an intellectual disability. It used to annoy me when people asked me what Jo’s “mental age” was. It’s not as simple as saying she’s like a six-year-old or an eight-year-old. She lives in a group home near me, catches public transport, works at a social […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/coronavirus-is-freaking-my-intellectually-disabled-sister-out/feed/ 9 29392 Love in the time of COVID-19 https://mikefrost.net/love-in-the-time-of-covid-19/ https://mikefrost.net/love-in-the-time-of-covid-19/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2020 01:24:14 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=29384 In his novel, Love in the Time of Cholera, Colombian Nobel prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez tells the story of the complicated marriage of Dr. Juvenal Urbino and his wife Fermina. Urbino is a passionless man, a medical scientist, devoted to order and progress, committed to the eradication of cholera. Before their marriage, Fermina […]

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