Mike Frost - What is Missional Church? (N04)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2009
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Mike Frost is an internationally recognised missiologist, and one of the leading voices in the Missional Church movemement. He's written a number of influential books and co-founded the Forge Mission Training Network. So he seemed like the perfect person to talk to about the place mission should have in the life of the church.
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the Future of the Church. |
| 0:16.1 | Welcome to Nomad podcast. It's good to have you back for our fourth show, but if this is your first time with us, |
| 0:21.5 | then we're a group of friends from Nottingham, England. I'm Tim and myself, along with Hannah, |
| 0:26.2 | Laura, Nick and Michael are thinking about what Christian community and mission might mean today. |
| 0:31.2 | We're doing this by chatting with various Christian leaders and thinkers and visiting other Christian |
| 0:35.8 | communities and seeing how they're incarnating |
| 0:37.8 | God's love in their local contexts. Nick is getting things started this month with a chat with |
| 0:43.1 | Mike Frost, a missional church planter, lecturer and author, and one of the world's leading thinkers |
| 0:48.9 | about how the church needs to change. |
| 1:03.4 | Mike, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:08.1 | Could you start by just telling us for those people who won't know a little bit about yourself, please? |
| 1:09.0 | Well, I'm speaking to you from Sydney, Australia, so it's probably very early in the morning |
| 1:13.8 | or very late at the night or something for you right now. |
| 1:17.0 | I teach at a seminary or theological college here in Sydney. |
| 1:21.3 | I direct a mission centre. |
| 1:24.1 | And I've planted missional churches, and I've done a lot of writing about the whole |
| 1:29.1 | missional paradigm for the church which I think is how you and I connected. |
| 1:34.6 | Absolutely. |
| 1:35.8 | Mike, could you start by asking this question? |
| 1:38.3 | It's a rather fundamental question, but how do you understand the purpose of church? |
| 1:44.1 | Well, I might not be going to give you the answer you expect here because I think most people |
| 1:48.2 | think that when they know I talk a lot about missional church, they think I'm going to say |
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