Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture

March 14, 2007

Every now and then I get to record a radio interview that I want to listen to over and over again. One such case is my interview with Michael Frost about his current book, Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture.

Mike has so many good things to say and he says them so well.

He previously wrote The Shaping of Things to Come together with Alan Hirsch. ‘Shaping’ is a book aimed at church leadership giving leaders ideas on reshaping church for the current culture. It was a great read and so I was very keen to get copies of Exiles and Alan Hirsch’s current book, The Forgotten Ways when I heard that they were available.

I’m currently working my way through Exiles and thoroughly enjoying it, so it’s wonderful to be able to spread Mike’s message to a wider audience through the interview.

We live in a time when more followers of Jesus are living outside the church than ever before. People who are still very keen to follow Christ are giving up on going to church. What does that say about the people that are ‘dropping out’ and what does it say about the church?

In the interview with Michael Frost we look at just what is meant by the term post-Christian culture. We also talk about Mike’s use of the term exiles. Are we really exiled in a foreign culture? How do we thrive in a post-Christian culture while staying faithful to Jesus? How much should we engage with the current culture? How much do we stand up against the existing culture?

My interview will be broadcast on 98.5 Sonshine FM this Sunday night and then replayed on Monday night. You can click here to listen to the interview online now or right click here and choose to save the mp3 file to listen later.

If you missed my earlier post, I interviewed Alan Hirsch about his current book, The Forgotten Ways, a couple of weeks back and thoroughly enjoyed the conversation.

If you’ve read Exiles I’d love to hear your thoughts. I look forward to your comments.

Posted by Rodney Olsen

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2 Responses to “Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture”

Bar Bar A said:

March 14th, 2007 at 10:58 pm

Rodney,
Why don’t I read your blog every single day? Its packed full of interesting stuff! I am going to have to be better about blog reading.

Off to listen to the interview!
hamo said:

March 15th, 2007 at 8:55 am

hey Rod - I am hoping to get Mike over here later this year.

its a long shot, but I reckon it just might happen…