Mike Frost

I’m a 20-year veteran of the academy, but I still don’t call myself an academic. On my immigration forms I write “teacher” in the occupation box. I’ve taught at Morling College in Sydney that whole time and am currently the head of the missiology department there.

Do We Have Friends at Church – Or Are We a Lonely Crowd?

I’ve lost count of the number of Christians who’ve told me they either stopped attending or left because they couldn’t make any friends at church.

The Religious Life of Gen Z

Up until its release, most social commentators have tended to assume that Gen Z is largely apathetic when it comes to religion. But the Deakin researchers found that some of this had to do with how we’ve been asking teens about religion.

5 Cultural Trends Killing the Mission of the Church

In fact, it is now becoming clear that these trends are killing the mission of the church far more effectively than the hot-button issues that get all the attention. Here are five trends that are killing the mission of the church.

New Kinds of Churches Are the Hope of the Future

The hope of the future include things like messy churches and heavy metal churches, as well as pub churches, microchurches, dinner churches or house churches and other missional communities.

Thin Places – Where Architecture Meets God

I believe God transcends time and space, yet we seek God in very specific thin places and at very specific times.

Dinner Church, Anyone?

Gathering around a table, sharing a meal, worshiping and studying The Word. What could be better than dinner church?

Being a Family Is an Art and the Dinner Table Is Where It Finds Expression

Interestingly, when families do eat together the average dinnertime is 15 minutes. In the 1960, the average family dinnertime was 90 minutes.

Coronavirus Has Unveiled the Liturgical Poverty of Evangelicals

Evangelicals don’t want anything that has to be dispensed by a religious practitioner getting in the way of the individual believer hearing the Word and responding to it. 

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