Table of Contents

Foreword: Bob Webber: Memory and Hope     9
Acknowledgments     15
Introduction to the Ancient-Future Series     19
Introduction: A Personal Note     21
Rediscovering God's Story in Worship
Worship Does God's Story     29
Worship Remembers the Past     41
Worship Anticipates the Future     57
How the Fullness of God's Story Became Lost     67
Applying God's Story to Worship
Worship: Transformed by Remembrance and Anticipation     89
Word: Transformed by the Narrative Nature of Scripture     113
Eucharist: Transformed by the Presence of God at Table     133
Prayer: Transformed by Recovering the Style of Ancient Worship     149
Conclusion: My Journey toward an Ancient-Future Worship     167
A Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future     179
Notes     184
Selected Bibliography     187
Index     189