Wilson, Jonathan R, <br/><br/>
Why church matters :  worship, ministry, and mission in practice /  [print] 
Jonathan R. Wilson. 
 - Grand Rapids, Michigan :  Brazos Press,  (c)2006. 
 - 158 pages ;  23 cm. 
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<br/><br/>Foundations --  On practices and practical theology --  Worship as work, warfare, and witness --  Worship as true, good, and beautiful --  Worship as Trinitarian practice --  Worship as language school --  Renovations --  Witness as kingdom words and deeds --  Discipleship as human flourishing --  Formations --  Baptism, Eucharist amd footwashing as participation in Christ --  Confession as the shape of the church --  Suffering as the power of the kingdom --  Appendix: Practicing church : evangelical ecclesiologies at the end of modernity (Francis Schaeffer, Charles Colson, Rick Warren, and Brian McLaren). 
<br/><br/> Jonathan R Wilson discusses how worship is work, witness, and warfare; how it grounds us in the good and the true and the beautiful; and how it teaches and shapes us in the language of faith. He then fleshes out his vision for the church by looking in depth at three practices-baptism, communion, and foot-washing. Wilson further explores how confession and the formative power of prayer and suffering shape the body of Christ. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781587430374 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006017095 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Church.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV600.W749.W493 2006 BV600