Liturgical Mission: The Work of the People for the Life of the World
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Overview
Modern missional movements have often viewed the historic Christian traditions with suspicion. The old traditions may be beautiful, the thinking goes, but they’re too insular, focused primarily on worship and on the interior life of the church, and not looking outward to evangelism and good works.
In Liturgical Mission, Winfield Bevins argues that the church's liturgy and sacramental life are in fact deeply missional. He explores the historic practices of the Christian church, demonstrating how they offer a holistic framework for everyday Christian discipleship and mission in the twenty-first century. The result is a book that not only invites all Christians back to the historic liturgy of the church, but also invites those already in liturgical churches to rediscover the missional life that has too often remained latent in their own traditions.
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- Explores the historic practices of the Christian church
- Invites all Christians back to the historic liturgy of the church
- Argues that the church's liturgy and sacramental life are in fact deeply missional
Part 1: The Work of the People
- Liturgical Renewal
- Story-Formed Worship
- The Symphony of Liturgy
- The Sacramental Life
Interlude: The Kingdom Prayer
Part 2: For the Life of the World
- Trinitarian Mission
- Unity and Mission
- Word and Deed
- Join the Fiesta
Winfield Bevins shows that it is possible to worship God without tech, apps, rock concerts, and worship leaders dressed like lumberjacks. Instead of shallow consumerist worship, he offers ancient and missional liturgy, not rooted in gimmicks or fads but part of the unbroken chain of two thousand years of Christian tradition. Bevins draws on ancient and global liturgical traditions to draw us into a deep and mysterious worship of the triune God.
Michael F. Bird, academic dean and lecturer in theology at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia
If it is indeed true that a biblical understanding of worship involves offering our world back to God, then what we need are liturgies that take us out of the confined experience of Sunday gatherings to a worship that engages the whole of life. Winfield Bevins does precisely this, and in following his guidance, disciples get to live genuinely sacramental lives.
Alan Hirsch, author and founder of Movement Leaders Collective and Forge Missional Training Network
How do we work moving forward? There is not a more poignant question being asked within the church today. Among pandemic fatigue, economic uncertainty, and ecclesiological divisions, the church craves to recover Christian foundations that will propel it into future renewal. In Liturgical Mission Dr. Bevins, as a skilled archer, reaches into the quiver of the Great Tradition, pulls from it missional and liturgical treasures old and new, reaches back to show their origins and foundations, and releases them into the future with prophetic aim, precision, and brilliance. Whether you're interested in justice as a fourth stream alongside Scripture, Spirit, and Table, or liturgy as fiesta, this book has something for everyone.
Emilio Alvarez, primate/archbishop of the Union of Charismatic Orthodox Churches and author of Pentecostal Orthodoxy: Toward an Ecumenism of the Spirit
- Title: Liturgical Mission: The Work of the People for the Life of the World
- Author: Winfield Bivins
- Publisher: IVP
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 188
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Missions › Theory; Mission of the church
- ISBNs: 9781514001554, 1514001543, 1514001551, 9781514001547
- Resource ID: LLS:LITURGICALMISSION
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-02T20:48:01Z
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