Director of the Tinsley Institute
DMin, MA, BTh.
Michael Frost is the Director of the Tinsley Institute, the mission study centre he founded at Morling 20 years ago. Michael teaches such units as Missional Leadership, Evangelism Principles, Preaching II, History of Christian Mission, Church Planting, Cultural Exegesis, and the odd NT unit. Michael was also the Vice Principal at Morling for 12 years. He is an internationally recognised missiologist and one of the leading voices in the missional church movement. He is the author or editor of 20 theological books, some of which are required reading in colleges and seminaries around the world, and he is much sought after as an international conference speaker. He is also an adjunct or visiting professor with several seminaries in the USA.
Michael was one of the founders of the Forge Mission Training Network and the founder of the missional Christian community, Smallboatbigsea, based in Manly in Sydney’s north.
Recent Publications:
Jesus the Fool (1994; 2007; 2010)
Longing for Love (1996)
Seeing God in the Ordinary (1998; 2000)
Lessons from Reel Life (2001) co-authored with Robert Banks
Freedom to Explore (2001)
The Shaping of Things to Come (2003) co-authored with Alan Hirsch
Speaking of Mission (2006) - editor
Exiles (2006)
ReJesus (2008) co-authored with Alan Hirsch
The Faith of Leap (2011) co-authored with Alan Hirsch
The Road to Missional (2011)
The Big Ideas (2011)
Speaking of Mission Vol.2 (2013) - editor
Incarnate (2014)
InterVarsity Press (2014)
Surprise the World! (2016)
To Alter Your World (2017) co-authored with Christiana Rice
Keep Christianity Weird (2018)
Not in Kansas Anymore (2020) co-edited with Darrell Jackson and David Starling
Hide This in Your Heart (2020) co-authored with Graham Joseph Hill
Blog at www.mikefrost.net
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