A Day Conference on Incarnational Mission

'What are the implications of an incarnational approach to mission?'

'How can indigenous leaders be empowered and released?'

These are the two questions we have invited Michael Frost to address in a day conference on Incarnational Mission sponsored by Urban Expression in Oxford on Thursday 9 October.

Michael is the vice-principal of Morling College, Sydney, and is involved in an emerging missional community in the city known as smallboatbigsea. He is also the co-author, with Alan Hirsch, of The Shaping of Things to Come and the author of Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture. Michael has interacted extensively with emerging churches in North America and the UK but brings a distinctive Australian perspective to discussions about mission and church today.

Michael has strongly advocated an incarnational approach to mission, rather than the attractional approach that characterised mission in the Christendom era. But what does this mean in practice? How different is this? Are there any dangers in this approach? Is it sustainable? How important for incarnational mission is the release of indigenous leaders? And how can such leadership be empowered?

The conference will run from 10.00 until 4.30. Our hosts will be the Church Mission Society at their new centre in Oxford. The address is CMS, Watlington Road, Oxford OX4 6BZ. The cost for the day will be £20 (including lunch) or £15 (unwaged).

To book a place, please complete the booking form at www.urbanexpression.org.uk/incarnational_mission_day_with_michael_frost and send it with a cheque payable to ‘Urban Expression’ to Urban Expression, 24 Effingham Road, Bristol BS6 5BJ.