Michael
Frost - Hendrickson Publishers
"This book is written for those Christians who find
themselves falling into the cracks between contemporary secular Western culture
and a quaint, old-fashioned church culture of respectability and conservatism."
Our situation is
much like that of the Jewish exiles in Babylon.
Just as Jerusalem
was finally razed in 587BC so Frost says
"Christendom is over and we need to get over it"
We are conscious of
the humiliation of God's people in the eyes of the society amongst whom we now
live. a society where "Christianity is believed by many to have been tried
and failed."
We now find
ourselves caught between the temptation to sink roots deep into the foreign
soil of the 'host empire' and the desire to retreat into the comfort of
a Christian ghetto and spend our energies lamenting or trying to restore the
temporal cultural supports of Christendom.
The
book is an exhortation to resist the inclinations to assimilation or fruitless
lament for past glories and to embrace a robust, confident Christ-centred faith and lifestyle, lived boldly
together right under the nose of our host culture. Frost divides the book into
four sections... Read More
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 04 October 2007 )
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Top social networking site Facebook allows you to do many things with varying degrees of usefulness. One useful thing it does do is to let you ask questions for your friends to answer. I asked the question Are all Christians called to be missionaries? which has produced some varied and conflicting responses. My good friend Eddie Arthur wasn't too impressed by the question, but due to the 250 word response limit on Facebook he answered it with a post on his blog. Feel free to post your responses to the question as comments here.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 04 August 2007 )
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 This might look like SPAM, but it really isn't. I am no fan of advertising on websites, but I do appreciate good service, so please forgive me for shamelessly plugging the great web hosting company which I use for this site and for our AIM International websites:
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Last Updated ( Friday, 25 July 2008 )
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If anyone else out there is experiencing the "joy" of transitioning from XP to Vista here's another tip which is helping to smooth my path. For some reason my Vista wasn't finding drivers for things like USB hard drives and flash drives despite the claim that it ships with 11,700 drivers. I just got a brand new "Vista compatible" flash drive/card reader made by Kingston plugged it in and what would you know...searching, searching...Windows was unable to find a suitable driver for this device. Checking Kingston's support site there was still no downloadable driver so I e-mailed their support. I got this this reply in less than 24hrs:
The problem you are experiencing is an issue caused by Vista. Vista is unable to find the location where its drivers are located.You can try to redirect Vista to the following folder: C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\
So full marks to Kingston, zero marks to Microsoft.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 03 July 2007 )
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 Before getting to the review of this astonishing film, let me tell you about how I came to see it. On my way back from the States last Wednesday I had a seven hour layover in Newark. I don't much enjoy hanging around airports for hours, so I took the 30 minute train ride into Manhattan. Wandering up the road from Maddison Square Gardens I heard a smart-suited African speaking French into his 'cellulaire'. Wondering if he was from Côte d'Ivoire where we used to live, I followed him through a shop doorway. As my eyes adjusted to the rather greasy gloom, I noted that I had entered a little Caribbean bakery/restaurant full of black faces. I forced back the temptation to make a quick exit and joined him at the back of the queue at the counter. He turned out to be Senegalese rather than Ivorian, but was very pleased to have another chance to talk French...
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 June 2007 )
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We used to live in Africa and were known to lots of people as 'missionaries' though our contacts there were almost all Christians. We now live in the Bristol suburbs a long way from what many think of as the 'mission field', yet Bradley Stoke is probably more pagan than Abidjan. I work in an office staffed entirely by Christians. My work is focussed on mission in Africa, but my role in IT often seems quite far removed from reaching people with the good news of Jesus Christ. Although we now live in the UK, we are grateful to the Lord for those who have continued to give financially and pray for us. But the nagging question is still there - are we 'real missionaries'? Sadly I can go days or even weeks without really talking in any depth to someone who isn't yet a Christian. Margo at least gets to meet lots of not-yet-Christian mums every week at toddler group. How can we be real missionaries here in Bristol? Being real missionaries probably shouldn't mean spending more time at church or even more time at work. I preach evangelistic sermons sometimes, but mostly to the converted. Perhaps you who pray for us and give to our support are the real missionaries and we should be spending more time praying for you! We'd love it if you could update us on your situation and the not-yet-Christians you rub shoulders with every day in your mission field.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 18 June 2007 )
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