Worship, History and the Whole Measure of Christ

Abstract

"This piece of writing set out to be the crisply reasoned and finely measured distillation of months of careful research into the history of Baptist worship. I felt a need to regain my roots having decided, on entering the critical fifth decade, that I'm in danger of becoming a Victor Meldrew-like curmudgeon, a miserable prematurelyold buffer who only rarely finds worship particularly uplifting. I want to ask why that should be the case in these vibrant days of Willow Creek seeker-friendly services and Toronto blessings. Of course the reality is that what I have finally committed to paper is probably neither particularly well reasoned or finely measured. But it is a cry from the heart, and not just my own -for my current itinerant ministry for an evangelical aid and relief agency takes me right across the evangelical denominations and New Church streams, and has shown me that my feelings may well be shared by others"