Michael Frost Quotes

#1. The missional church will take context seriously, but will also work on recovering the biblical narrative with its richness and potency for today's world. When story and context are equally embraced, we are beginning to think and act missionally.

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#2. The Christian experience is not primarily formed by our liturgy, doctrine, or ecclesiology, as important as those might be. We are formed by the dangerous stories of our great hero.

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#3. a missional church is simply any church that organizes itself around the mission of God in this world.

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#4. Mission is both the announcement and the demonstration of the reign of God through Christ.

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#5. important to note that the missional church combines the concern for community development normally characterized by the liberal churches and the desire for personal and community transformation normally characterized by the evangelical movement.

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#6. Jesus is the center point where God's claim and human response correlate.

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#7. Surely the challenge for the church today is to be taken captive by the agenda of Jesus, rather than seeking to mold him to fit our agendas, no matter how noble they might be.

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#8. The founding father of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, was noted as saying, "When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.

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#9. you know you've remade Jesus in your own image when he hates all the same people you hate!

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#10. We can no longer afford our historical sentimentality, even addiction, to the past.

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#11. Those who are taken captive by Jesus see mission not merely as a practice preferred by God but as an aspect of his very character. He is mission. Core to understanding God's nature is the realization that God cannot not be about the business of mission.

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#12. The Come-To-Us stance developed over the Christendom period is unbiblical.

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#13. If your neighbors did an analysis of your life, what would they learn about the kingdom?

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#14. Our point is that to reJesus the church, we need to go back to the daring, radical, strange, wonderful, inexplicable, unstoppable, marvelous, unsettling, disturbing, caring, powerful God-Man.

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#15. Therefore, we propose a rediscovery of Christology that includes a preoccupation with the example and teaching of Jesus for the purposes of emulation by his followers.

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#16. The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix

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#17. The renewal of the church in our time is dependent on the renewal of the gospel. And the renewal of the gospel requires the recovery of the centrality of Jesus for faith and thought. We must reJesus our theology as well as our churches.

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#18. If the heart of Christian spirituality is to increasingly become like our founder, then an authentic comprehension of Jesus becomes critical.

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