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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...

worshipers, whose definitive and culminating act of worship is the eucharistic celebration (see next chapter). This explains why the Eucharist has always been reserved for only the baptized. If worship is the defining characteristic of the church, it would explain why the Scriptures treat some of the basic activities of the church as essentially liturgical acts. Worship became a comprehensive concept qualifying many other actions. Not only must the spirit of worship pervade all the activities of
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