March 4, 2024 | Dr. Michael Frost
“We need to become a community of people who are engaged in mission wherever we are, not just in the church building.”
What does it mean to be “on mission” as God’s people? Is this something specific to those called to serve God as missionaries? Or is there a different understanding of mission applicable for all Christians?
Dr. Michael Frost—founding director of the Tinsley Institute, award-winning author, and internationally recognized Australian missiologist—unpacks the meaning of being on mission. Through reflections on his personal faith journey and his new book, “Mission Is the Shape of Water: Learning From the Past to Inform Our Role in the World Today,” Dr. Frost examines what the mission of the Church looks like today and the importance of contextualizing mission to your specific cultural context.
"In the reign of God, no one will be hungry. That's why we run a feeding program. In the age to come, no one will be sick anymore. That's why we run a counseling center, or why we run a healing ministry, or why we open a hospital.… Share on X "Paul's assumption is that there are some of us. . . who may go as overseas missionaries to difficult fields and the like. But then there's the rest of us: we're no less missional, we're no less evangelistic. But our opportunities… Share on X "Sometimes the most beautifully missional thing we can do is practice hospitality, host dinner parties, be interesting in conversation, and live a mission, a kingdom life, so that when people ask us who we are, we're able to talk… Share on X