Today, as Christendom weakens, worship and mission are poised to reunite after centuries of separation. But this requires the church to rethink both mission and worship. In post-Christendom mission, God is the main actor and God calls all Christians to participate. In post-Christendom worship, the church tells and celebrates the story of God, enabling members to live in hope and attract outsiders to its many tables of hospitality.

Foreword to the North American edition	p. 11
Series Preface	p. 15
Acknowledgments	p. 17
Introduction	p. 19
Worship After Christendom	p. 23
From Italy to Britain	p. 23
Worship: Actions and Emotions	p. 25
New Testament Words for Worship Imply Mission	p. 26
Worship: Ascribing Worth to God	p. 28
Worship Is for All of Life	p. 29
Worship Services Must Be in Keeping with God's Character and Mission	p. 31
Worship Services Reveal the Character and Purposes of God	p. 33
Mission Under Christendom	p. 35
Characteristics of Classical Mission	p. 36
The Christendom Origins of Classical Mission	p. 38
Classical Mission in Late Christendom	p. 40
Mission after Christendom: The Missio Dei	p. 43
Missio Dei: The Bible's Grand Narrative	p. 45
Wolves and Lambs	p. 46
A Feast for All People	p. 47
The Means of God's Mission: Sending	p. 48
Characteristics of the Missio Dei	p. 49
Implications of Missio Dei Thinking	p. 53
Criteria for Discernment	p. 55
An Exemplar of the Missio Dei	p. 56
Post-Christendom Worship: The Recovery of Narrative	p. 59
The Power of Story	p. 60
The Stifling of Story in Christendom	p. 61
God's Story: A Five-Act Drama	p. 63
Worshipping God in the Present, Between Past and Future	p. 64
The Past: Acts of Worship in the Bible Tell the Story of God	p. 65
Narrative Worship that Tells an Odd Story	p. 67
Ways of Telling the Story	p. 70
Narrative Resources for Worship: Hoping the Past, Remembering the Future	p. 77
Hoping the Past	p. 77
Drawing on the ôGap Yearsö	p. 79
Drawing on the Immediate Past: ôReports from the Frontö	p. 81
Remembering the Future	p. 85
The Loss of Hope	p. 86
Regaining Hope	p. 87
Anticipations Little and Big	p. 88
Long-Sighted Christians	p. 89
Early Christian Worship: Multivoiced Meals	p. 91
Inculturating the Gospel	p. 93
Inculturating Worship in Corinth	p. 94
1 Corinthians 11-14 Is All One Piece	p. 97
1 Corinthians 11-The Meal	p. 97
1 Corinthians 14-The After-Dinner Conversation	p. 101
Paul's Objections: Disorder and Incomprehensibility	p. 102
Outsiders Are Present	p. 104
Paul's Vision for Table and Word	p. 106
After Christendom: Multivoiced Worship Returns	p. 111
The Disappearance of Multivoiced Table Worship	p. 112
1 Corinthians 11-14 in Christendom	p. 115
Multivoiced Worship: Bubbling to the Surface	p. 117
Churches After Christendom	p. 118
Paul's Vision of Meal and Word for Today	p. 120
In Small Churches: Experimental	p. 123
In Small Churches: Inherited	p. 124
In Churches that Combine the Small with the Large	p. 125
In Larger Churches	p. 127
Testimony: Three Ways	p. 130
Symposium-like Worship as a ôNewö Sacrament	p. 134
Inculturating Worship and Witness in the Post-Christendom West	p. 134
Worship Forms Mission I: Glorifying God, Sanctifying Humans	p. 137
Worship Edifies Attractive Christians	p. 138
Glorifying God, Sanctifying Humans	p. 141
What Christians Do in Worship	p. 143
Worship Forms Mission II: Actions of Worship	p. 147
We Gather	p. 147
We Praise God	p. 152
We Confess that Jesus Is Lord	p. 154
We Tell the Big Story	p. 157
We Tell the ôLittle Storiesö	p. 159
We Perform Baptism, Eucharist, and Footwashing	p. 160
We Make Peace and We Pray	p. 167
We Sing	p. 170
Transformations	p. 175
Worship Forms Mission III: Worshipping Christians in the World	p. 179
Witness	p. 180
Being	p. 180
Affections	p. 181
Actions	p. 183
Deviance: Individual and Corporate	p. 187
Missional Worship in the Worldwide Church	p. 189
We Worship the God of All the Nations	p. 190
The Worldwide Vision of the New Testament	p. 191
Pre-Christendom: A Worldwide Vision	p. 193
Christendom: The Vision Narrows	p. 193
Christianity Becomes Worldwide Again	p. 194
Post-Christendom: Worldwide Interdependence	p. 195
Relationships	p. 196
Gift Sharing: Structures	p. 201
Changes in Worship and Mission	p. 207
Gifts for Worship	p. 209
Gifts for Mission	p. 214
Worldwide Christianity: A Transcultural Community	p. 216
Outsiders Come to Worship I: What the Outsiders Experience	p. 219
Worship and Outsiders in Christian History	p. 219
Why Outsiders Come	p. 221
What the Outsiders See: Paul's Concerns	p. 224
Where the Outsiders Meet Christians: A Liminal Space	p. 225
The Outsiders in Christian Worship: Inculturation	p. 227
Five Models of Church: Domestic, Megachurch, Cathedral, Congregation, Outsider-Directed	p. 230
What the Outsiders See: Actions of Christian Worship	p. 233
What the Outsiders Intuit: The Church's Ethos	p. 237
What the Outsiders Intuit: About God	p. 239
Outsiders Come to Worship II: Hospitality and Wholeness	p. 243
Attending Church by Choice	p. 243
Hospitality: A Task for All Christians	p. 244
Hospitality in Worship	p. 246
Outsiders and the Table: Three Approaches	p. 248
Worship and Mission in a Body Made Whole	p. 255
Breathing In, Breathing Out	p. 256
Appendix: Are Americans in Christendom?	p. 259
Notes	p. 265
Bibliography	p. 309
Index	p. 315
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