Why church matters : worship, ministry, and mission in practice / Jonathan R. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Jonathan R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church.

Physical Description:

158 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : Brazos Press, [2006]

Summary:

What is it that we are called to do as the church? In Why Church Matters, Jonathan Wilson offers compelling insight into this question by examining how Christian practices are centered on gathered worship.

Contents:

Foundations

On practices and practical theology

Worship as work, warfare, and witness

Worship as true, good, and beautiful

Worship as Trinitarian practice

Worship as language school

Renovations

Witness as kingdom words and deeds

Discipleship as human flourishing

Formations

Baptism, Eucharist amd footwashing as participation in Christ

Confession as the shape of the church

Suffering as the power of the kingdom

Appendix: Practicing church : evangelical ecclesiologies at the end of modernity (Francis Schaeffer, Charles Colson, Rick Warren, and Brian McLaren).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1587430371

OCLC:

69734427

Publisher Number:

9781587430374