ABSTRACT
Evangelicals are often disinterested in any history at all, let alone their own; they are also often impatient with discussions of 'tradition'. It is fascinating, therefore, to note that each of the five emphasis groups resonates strongly at a number of points with a discernible stream of evangelical tradition. Such resonances may be genetic the result of actual family lineage, either direct or circuitous. The resonances may also be sympathetic vibrations less a matter of direct contact than of harmonic likeness. It has been proposed that two of the five emphasis groups are derivative, both of them outgrowths of the gathered devotion group. Two things stand out at the level of the first horizon. First of all, nearly all the authors stress the way in which worship participation must be based in the heart. The second notable discovery is: across the entire pool, the literature envisions congregational participation in terms of a uniform and narrowly-circumscribed palette of human actions.
