ABSTRACT

Here on the far side of a trek through more than 20 evangelically-popular books about worship, it is fair to ask: where have we arrived? What has come clear? The preceding chapters have examined a pool of literature published between 1980 and 2010, grouped according to five distinct emphases. Each emphasis group was scrutinized through a trifocal lens designed to bring into focus three simultaneous horizons: participation in human action, participation in divinethrough-human action, and participation in the life of God. It is now possible to summarize, compare, and integrate the study’s findings across the groups-as well as to consider its broader implications.