Michael Frost (minister)

Michael Frost (born 1961) is an internationally recognised Australian missiologist[1] and one of the leading voices in the missional church movement. Frost is the Vice Principal of Morling College and the founding Director of the Tinsley Institute, a mission study centre located at Morling College in Sydney, Australia.[2] He is also a senior lecturer with the Melbourne University of Divinity.

Dr Michael Frost is the author or editor of a number of theological books, the most recent of which are the popular and award-winning, The Shaping of Things to Come (2003), Exiles (2006), The Road to Missional (2011) and Incarnate (2014). These books explore a missional framework for the church in a postmodern era. Frost's work has been translated into German, Korean and Spanish. Their popularity has led Frost to become a sought-after speaker at conferences in the United States, the United Kingdom and across Europe, and as far afield as Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro and Moscow.

In 1999, he and Alan Hirsch founded the Forge Mission Training Network, an action-reflection based program for training missional leaders. He remains an international director of that movement which is now based in the USA. In 2002, he founded the missional Christian community, smallboatbigsea, based in Manly in Sydney’s north. He has been the weekly religion columnist for The Manly Daily since 2002 and helped establish Action Against Poverty, a localised micro-financing agency, linking the cities of Manly and Manado, an impoverished Indonesian community. He was also instrumental in launching Street Pastors Manly, a street chaplaincy program for entertainment precincts, originally founded in the UK.

Books

Michael Frost has written or edited fourteen books:

Notes

  1. ↑ "Stopping Cultural Drift", Christianity Today, 16 November 2006, p. 2, accessed 22 December 2010.
  2. ↑ http://www.morling.nsw.edu.au/morling_college/about_morling/our_faculty/michael_frost.php[]

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