Michael Frost

Michael Frost is the Founding Director of Centre for Evangelism & Global Mission at Morling Theological College in Sydney. The following is from REV MICHAEL FROST (M.A., B.Th., Dip.Teach.)

What is ‘Missional’. Simply put, it is a way of thinking that encompasses: leadership, worship, evangelism, etc. and channels the energy toward an outward focus.

If you embrace a Missional paradigm 3 things will happen to you:
1. You will see God differently than the way a lot of the mainstream churches have spoken about Him.
2. You will see the Church differently than the way the mainstream churches have spoken about church.
3. You will see the world differently than the Church has spoken about it

From the beginning of time the stories of the Bible are the stories of “God the missionary”. God sends out his Word into the chaos and order is fashioned. God sends out his “reake” breath that Adam and Eve might mirror Him. Even after they sin and fall God follows after them. The history of Israel is the history of God’s constant “sentness” after those people who continue to disappoint him and betray him.

God the Father sends God the Son, God the Son sends God the Holy Spirit, and the cycle is not complete until we understand that God sends us. “As the father sent me, so I send you.” John 20:21 You cannot fully understand the character of God unless you see it through the paradigm of mission.

Good stuff, you can find it in it’s entirety here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ndCFSv47g

-Ethan