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This volume challenges congregations to develop worship practices which radiate with the joy of Christ and express counter-cultural hospitality. Drawing on a wide range of biblical, historical, and pastoral research, the volume articulates an Anabaptist vision in a way that informs, challenges, and encourages Christians in all traditions to live out the call of the gospel more faithfully. --John D. Witvliet, Director of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, Calvin College, Grand Rapids
The Kreiders great gift is to communicate in a way that is simultaneously challenging and nurturing. --Anne Wilkinson-Hayes, Regional Minister, Baptist Union of Victoria, Australia
The Kreiders great gift is to communicate in a way that is simultaneously challenging and nurturing. --Anne Wilkinson-Hayes, Regional Minister, Baptist Union of Victoria, Australia
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In the period of Christendom worship and mission were driven apart to the detriment of the Churchs life and witness. With the demise of Christendom there is fresh hope that they can be integrated anew, but this will involve us in rethinking our understanding of both mission and worship. Mission, in post-Christendom, is emerging as Gods own mission in which God is the main actor and into which God calls all Christians to participate. And worship, which ascribes worth to God, becomes narrative-based: it tells the story of God, celebrates Gods work past and present, in order to enable Christians to live in hope as players in Gods story. Worship after Christendom will be evaluated not by how people feel about their worship experience but rather by the extent to which worship envisions and empowers them to participate in Gods mission by seeking first his Kingdom and his justice.
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This book does a thorough exploration of the early and later church history to see changes from a group operating on the periphery of society to one having the power and authority of the state in the 20th century. In that place the church has lost its distinctiveness and needs to rediscover right priorities in its life and witness for today.Kreider makes this point very clearly and with gentle persuasion while acknowledging the enculturisation that needs to be part of the church's life and relationship.
His emphasis from the New testament and from understanding of our own day, is that it is the quality of life that the church and its individual members have that is the real witness and that this is built up in its worship times together and in small groups.The most efective evangelisation is that of a good life, showing the values and the practices Jesus offers and calls us to.
Altogether a valuable contribution to those who feel deeply about the coming of God's kingdom in our day, for it reminds us that we are not to bring it in by our efforts for God but He is bringing it in as He works in the world and we are called to participate with Him in that as we allow His Spirit to hold sway in every part of our integrated lives. the debate will continue.
His emphasis from the New testament and from understanding of our own day, is that it is the quality of life that the church and its individual members have that is the real witness and that this is built up in its worship times together and in small groups.The most efective evangelisation is that of a good life, showing the values and the practices Jesus offers and calls us to.
Altogether a valuable contribution to those who feel deeply about the coming of God's kingdom in our day, for it reminds us that we are not to bring it in by our efforts for God but He is bringing it in as He works in the world and we are called to participate with Him in that as we allow His Spirit to hold sway in every part of our integrated lives. the debate will continue.
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A resource for both the study and practice of worship and mission
1 Sep 2011
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At the dawn of the middle ages Pope Gregory the Great began the systematic reforms of the crumbled western Roman empire. Part of his project included the unification of ritual practice from Rome to the western edge of the continent. These liturgical reforms aimed to unite Christendom in a common mode of worship. Though liturgists speak of this time as the codification of liturgical texts, it was also a landmark historical moment in which the pope recognized the importance of shared practice. In other words the citizens of the empire would not just be Christian in name but would identify one another as companions in a shared practice.
In our time this political usage of the church's worship seems Machiavellian, especially at the dawn of Post-Christendom. For those traditions of the Radical Reformation which are most at home in the age Post Christendom, such a perspective on the formation of persons through ritual practice is suspect. For many in the Anabaptist stream of Christianity our theology, most notably our ecclesiology, often has little room for liturgical awareness. Instead ethics or mission are results of a cognitive system. We simply do what we believe. But where do these beliefs emerge? How do we know that our way of life is actually distinct from that of the surrounding world?
The Kreider's have finally opened the door to answer and understand these questions as uniquely liturgical. Without heading down the road of Pope Gregory's liturgy, Alan and Eleanor reveal how our time of worship in the presence of a transforming God shape us and send us out into the missio dei- the mission of God's reconciling love in the world.
This is no small undertaking. Not only do the Kreider's address the cultural and ecclesial shifts of 21st century Post-Christendom, they describe the fields of missiology and liturgical history. It is a task they accomplish with attentive skills throughout the book. Not only does their research emerge clearly in their prose and bibliography but their ability to synthesize these often insular disciplines.
Joshua Brockway
Director of Spiritual Life and Discipleship, Church of the Brethren
In our time this political usage of the church's worship seems Machiavellian, especially at the dawn of Post-Christendom. For those traditions of the Radical Reformation which are most at home in the age Post Christendom, such a perspective on the formation of persons through ritual practice is suspect. For many in the Anabaptist stream of Christianity our theology, most notably our ecclesiology, often has little room for liturgical awareness. Instead ethics or mission are results of a cognitive system. We simply do what we believe. But where do these beliefs emerge? How do we know that our way of life is actually distinct from that of the surrounding world?
The Kreider's have finally opened the door to answer and understand these questions as uniquely liturgical. Without heading down the road of Pope Gregory's liturgy, Alan and Eleanor reveal how our time of worship in the presence of a transforming God shape us and send us out into the missio dei- the mission of God's reconciling love in the world.
This is no small undertaking. Not only do the Kreider's address the cultural and ecclesial shifts of 21st century Post-Christendom, they describe the fields of missiology and liturgical history. It is a task they accomplish with attentive skills throughout the book. Not only does their research emerge clearly in their prose and bibliography but their ability to synthesize these often insular disciplines.
Joshua Brockway
Director of Spiritual Life and Discipleship, Church of the Brethren
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