Inner Frontiers

Inner Frontiers is a network of people seeking new pathways for the gospel across secular Europe. We live among friends, neighbours and colleagues who don’t relate easily to traditional expressions of church and ministry. Our experiences have forced us to reimagine and innovate.

We are a relational and organic network of people who live as ‘Insiders’ among the lost, faithfully walking with people, through life, over the long haul and are not necessarily organised around an overt religious or Navigator identity. We think of our journey with others as being ‘long’ rather than ‘slow’.

In Acts 15, we see the Council of Jerusalem wrestle with issues of culture and identity as the gospel expanded from its Jewish foundation into rich Gentile soil. Just as the Apostles wrestled with whether Gentile believers were required to become culturally and religiously Jewish in order to follow Jesus, we seek to ‘not make it difficult’ for secular Europeans to follow Jesus within their own culture and context.

We value time with our friends and the conviction that God ‘is not far from any one of us’. We meet together annually to share stories of what is happening in our contexts and seek to make sense of our experiences in light of the kingdom, faith and the scriptures.

We meet many people across Europe for whom it feels like “nothing is happening” with few “measurable outcomes” to report; people who feel discouraged or that they are somehow at fault. We very much want to put wind into the sails of folks living among their non-religious friends, discovering together all that God is doing.