Inside Out: Worship in an Age of Mission

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Summary: Lutherans mistaking a mission statement as mission
Review: This book is a wonderful book which calls the church back to remember the power of the Biblical narrative found within worship--particularly in the sacraments. But unfortunately, it mistakes this proclamtion of hope as missional, even if the message remains within the walls of the worshiping space.

My dictionary has 12 definitions for "mission," everyone of them implies an action. This book rarely talks of Christian mission as an action. For these writers mission is simply the declaration of justice and hope God gives the world--which is taking place within a worshiping community. There is little sense of actually taking this mission statement out to the people who could benefit from it.