| Summary: | Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. We sat down and wept: Problems for worship in the twenty-first century -- Missional? Emergent? Emerging? What? -- Is the Missional Answer Right? -- The Plan -- Chapter 2. Exile in Babylon: Missional Answers to post-christendom ministry -- A Brief History of the Missional Church Movement -- A Theological Survey of the Missional Church Movement -- Chapter 3. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land? -- Relationship of Worship to Mission -- Preliminary Evaluation -- The Strange Land -- Chapter 4. Singing the songs of babylon: A History of contextualization -- Roots of Contextualization -- Christ and Culture -- Historic Approaches to Culture -- Chapter 5. Hanging lyres or building houses: Evaluation of approaches to culture -- The Separatist Approach -- The Two-Kingdom Approach -- The Transformationalist Approach -- The Missional Approach -- Chapter 6. Songs, Houses, and Gardens: What is culture, anyway? -- Terms Associated with Ethnic Identity -- Terms Related to "the World" -- Terms Related to Behavior -- A New Testament Understanding of Culture -- Chapter 7. Language, Literature, and The King's meat: A biblical model for cultural engagement -- "Contextualization" in the New Testament -- A New Testament Approach to Christ and Culture -- The Sanctificationist Approach to Culture -- Chapter 8. Future Hope: Worship in the Heavenly Jerusalem -- Drawing Near to God -- Drawing Near through Christ -- The Significance of Corporate Worship -- Worship on Earth as It Is in Heaven -- Chapter 9. Zion's song -- Worship and the Mission of God -- Authentic Worship -- Corporate Worship as the Shaper of Behavior -- Worship, Culture, and Truth -- Chapter 10. For thus says the Lord: Who Regulates Worship? -- The Sufficiency of Scripture.
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