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Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative is unavailable, but you can change that!

There is a crisis of worship today. The problem goes beyond matters of style—it is a crisis of content and of form. Worship in churches today is too often dead and dry, or busy and self-involved. Robert Webber attributes these problems to a loss of vision of God and of God’s narrative in past, present, and future history. As he examines worship practices of Old Testament Israel and the early...

2 Worship Remembers the Past Take yourself back to your high school or college days for a few moments. Remember your curriculum. If your classs schedule was like mine, it suffered from a terrible fragmentation. All day long I, and I am sure you, attended classes that were never integrated with each other. One class is on history, another on math, then chemistry, followed by language. It seems as though curriculum planners never sat down and asked, “How can we unfold our curriculum in such a way that
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