TY - BOOK AU - Wilson,Jonathan R TI - Why church matters: worship, ministry, and mission in practice SN - 9781587430374 AV - BV600.W749.W493 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Grand Rapids, Michigan PB - Brazos Press KW - Church N1 - 1 and indexes; 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); 2 N2 - 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 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0614/2006017095.html ER -