My friend Sas Conradie from the Global Generosity Movement has just released 12 Resources for Christian Generosity: E.G. “Jay” Link’s latest book ‘Who’s In Charge Here?’ is now available. The pdf and Kindle versions of the book are free – just go to this webpage. The Money Revolution is a website linked to a book that helps…
Read MoreThe Folly of Picking Emerging Young Leaders
They all happened at the same time. Charisma Mag announced their latest lineup of emerging leaders for tomorrow’s church, Lausanne reported on their Young Leaders gathering in USA, and the reading in our chapel service was about the folly of selecting young leaders – it was Samuel sorting through the big manly sons of Jesse…
Read MoreHow does your church rank on the Informality Scale?
How much does your church resemble the community around it? Contextuality is a hot issue. Pyromaniacs have posted a lot on engaging the culture over the past year. Emerging church folk have popped up on the other side to defend it. Even I had some response to John McArthur’s “Contextualization is a curse” rant. More importantly, there…
Read MoreJohn Stott. Gone for now.
He was one of the most important evangelical leaders of last century. John Stott passed away yesterday at age 90. I will remember him mostly as the guy behind the Lausanne Covenant – his story and influence was all over the Lausanne Congress I attended last year in Capetown – but I will also remember…
Read MoreStorytelling the good news through blogging (Perth Event)
This Saturday morning I am teaching on storytelling the gospel for a group organized by Scripture Union in Perth, West Australia. Its part of a social media training tour that was suggested to me at Lausanne World Congress last year in Cape Town. Peter Barney, also at Lausanne, asked that I do something in Perth.…
Read MoreLausanne Fringe (audio): Missional practises and the pitfalls of emerging church
The final audio segment from Lausanne Fringe in Cape Town. This is Mike Frost on mission as worship, missional practises in your community, suggestions by Gabi Nagy (Budapest) on prayer walking, and the pitfalls of fresh expressions of emerging church that we should watch out for and my concluding thougths. Mike is hilarious at the…
Read MoreAudio: Michael Frost at Lausanne Fringe
I am editing parts of the Lausanne Fringe session from Cape Town last September. Its a great audio but the original is really long and a very large file, thanks to my long-winded introduction. For those of you who are ADD/ADHD/CAFFEINE-INDUCED or just want to get to the good stuff, here's a bite-sized audio of…
Read MoreSocial Media and the Cape Town Commitment
Here's the soical media part of the Cape Town Commitment that was just released by the Lausanne Movement, based on our congress last September in South Africa. 4. Truth and the globalized media We commit ourselves to a renewed critical and creative engagement with media and technology, as part of making the case for the…
Read MoreCape Town Commitment Now Released
UPDATE. Its Friday. Here it is: The greatly anticipated . . . Cape Town Commitment The Cape Town Commitment has been given to participants of the Lausanne World Congress and will be released to the wider public tomorrow (Friday – but I am in New Zealand so Friday comes sooner). I am reading it today…
Read MoreVideo at Lausanne Congress
People are asking me where to get video. There is plenty of high quality video but bandwidith has been a challenge here in Cape Town and we all hope the addition of an additional pipe today will ease the problems. [UPDATE: getting better now. check out official site for videos here] But in the…
Read More47 On-Site Lausanne Bloggers
You want the skinny on which bloggers are with me at Lausanne World Congress here in Cape Town. OK. How about 40 of them? You already know about the Official Lausanne Blog and of course you know about Notes on Lausanne [Outreach Magazine] by Andrew Jones [I can honestly and objectively recommend this one]. Did…
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