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Bad worship produces bad theology, and bad theology produces an unhealthy church. In Liturgical Theology, Simon Chan issues a call to evangelicals to develop a mature theology of the church—an ecclesiology that is grounded in the church’s identity as a worshiping community. Evangelicals, he argues, are confused about the meaning and purpose of the church in part because they have an inadequate...

as an end in itself and for God’s sake (“to the praise of God’s glory,” Eph 1:6, 12, 14), the tendency is to see the church as simply one of a number of entities whose legitimacy is to be established solely based on their ability to serve a higher, all-transcending goal—a goal largely defined by modern secular reason (Niebuhr’s “culture”). Relevance to the world becomes the main criterion by which the church defines its raison d’être. But if the church is a divine-humanity, chosen in Christ before
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