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Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission: Gathering as God's People, Going Out in God's Name (Calvin Inst Christian Worship Liturgical Studies (CICW))

Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission: Gathering as God's People, Going Out in God's Name (Calvin Inst Christian Worship Liturgical Studies (CICW))

by Ruth A. Meyers (Author)

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Synopsis

Too many Christians still think that worship is only a Sunday-morning activity done inside the church, while mission involves how the church engages the outside world. But Ruth Meyers argues that a dynamic relationship exists between worship and mission -- that gathering as God's people includes at its heart our being sent out into the world in God's name.

Meyers explores this relationship by taking readers through the various parts of the worship service: gathering, proclaiming the Word, praying for the world, celebrating the Eucharist, and going forth to continue participating in God's mission in the world. In each chapter Meyers includes stories of worship practices in different churches and considers how the actions of worship relate integrally to mission.

Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission emphasizes that missional worship is not a set of techniques but rather an approach to worship and congregational life in which God's mission permeates every aspect of what the church does.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Published: 14 Dec 2014
ISBN 10: 0802868002
ISBN 13: 9780802868008

Media Reviews
George R. Hunsberger -- Western Theological Seminary Ruth Meyers brings a deep grasp of what's at stake in the rediscovery of mission as the essence of the church, together with a generous mastery of liturgical traditions, to provide vision for seeing these two dimensions of the church's life as one... This is the handbook that should accompany every Christian community on its worshiping, witnessing journey. Stephen B. Bevans, SVD -- Catholic Theological Union A wonderful, faith-filled meditation on the missional heart of worship... A new classic in liturgical studies and in missiology as well. Todd E. Johnson -- Brehm Center, Fuller Theological Seminary Ruth Meyers's approach to the issues surrounding worship and mission is spot-on. Instead of approaching worship from a missional slant, or mission from a liturgical perspective, she takes both topics back to their biblical and historical roots -- the nature of the church... In practical and insightful ways Meyers demonstrates how a church's ministry in the world and its regular offering of worship reinforce one another. Her careful, direct, evenhanded approach is a breath of fresh air to much of the current theological discourse. Taylor W. Burton-Edwards -- Worship Resources, Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church Seminarians, pastors, deacons, and worship leaders seeking to understand, articulate, or imagine how the basic and most enduring structures of Christian worship 'engage worshipers in the mission of God' will discover in these pages both Meyers's wise and challenging counsel and many wonderful companions for the journey.
Author Bio
Ruth A Meyers is Dean of Academic Affairs and Hodges-Haynes Professor of Liturgics at Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California. An active participant in many liturgical circles, she has served as chair of the Episcopal Church's Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music since 2009.