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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...

offering. In the New Testament, it is the coming of the Word made flesh and the sealing of the covenant by Christ’s sacrificial death. The coming of God’s word to gather a people and the people’s response to that word—that is the basic dynamic of worship and the constitution of the liturgical assembly.2 There is therefore no separation between the liturgy and the church. To be church is to be the worshiping community making a normative response to the revelation of the triune God. I shall expand
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