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| Foreword to the North American edition | |
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| Series Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Worship After Christendom | |
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| From Italy to Britain | |
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| Worship: Actions and Emotions | |
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| New Testament Words for Worship Imply Mission | |
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| Worship: Ascribing Worth to God | |
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| Worship Is for All of Life | |
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| Worship Services Must Be in Keeping with God's Character and Mission | |
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| Worship Services Reveal the Character and Purposes of God | |
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| Mission Under Christendom | |
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| Characteristics of Classical Mission | |
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| The Christendom Origins of Classical Mission | |
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| Classical Mission in Late Christendom | |
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| Mission after Christendom: The Missio Dei | |
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| Missio Dei: The Bible's Grand Narrative | |
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| Wolves and Lambs | |
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| A Feast for All People | |
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| The Means of God's Mission: Sending | |
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| Characteristics of the Missio Dei | |
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| Implications of Missio Dei Thinking | |
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| Criteria for Discernment | |
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| An Exemplar of the Missio Dei | |
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| Post-Christendom Worship: The Recovery of Narrative | |
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| The Power of Story | |
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| The Stifling of Story in Christendom | |
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| God's Story: A Five-Act Drama | |
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| Worshipping God in the Present, Between Past and Future | |
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| The Past: Acts of Worship in the Bible Tell the Story of God | |
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| Narrative Worship that Tells an Odd Story | |
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| Ways of Telling the Story | |
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| Narrative Resources for Worship: Hoping the Past, Remembering the Future | |
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| Hoping the Past | |
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| Drawing on the �Gap Years� | |
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| Drawing on the Immediate Past: �Reports from the Front� | |
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| Remembering the Future | |
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| The Loss of Hope | |
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| Regaining Hope | |
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| Anticipations Little and Big | |
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| Long-Sighted Christians | |
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| Early Christian Worship: Multivoiced Meals | |
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| Inculturating the Gospel | |
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| Inculturating Worship in Corinth | |
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| 1 Corinthians 11-14 Is All One Piece | |
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| 1 Corinthians 11-The Meal | |
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| 1 Corinthians 14-The After-Dinner Conversation | |
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| Paul's Objections: Disorder and Incomprehensibility | |
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| Outsiders Are Present | |
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| Paul's Vision for Table and Word | |
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| After Christendom: Multivoiced Worship Returns | |
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| The Disappearance of Multivoiced Table Worship | |
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| 1 Corinthians 11-14 in Christendom | |
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| Multivoiced Worship: Bubbling to the Surface | |
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| Churches After Christendom | |
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| Paul's Vision of Meal and Word for Today | |
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| In Small Churches: Experimental | |
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| In Small Churches: Inherited | |
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| In Churches that Combine the Small with the Large | |
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| In Larger Churches | |
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| Testimony: Three Ways | |
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| Symposium-like Worship as a �New� Sacrament | |
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| Inculturating Worship and Witness in the Post-Christendom West | |
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| Worship Forms Mission I: Glorifying God, Sanctifying Humans | |
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| Worship Edifies Attractive Christians | |
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| Glorifying God, Sanctifying Humans | |
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| What Christians Do in Worship | |
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| Worship Forms Mission II: Actions of Worship | |
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| We Gather | |
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| We Praise God | |
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| We Confess that Jesus Is Lord | |
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| We Tell the Big Story | |
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| We Tell the �Little Stories� | |
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| We Perform Baptism, Eucharist, and Footwashing | |
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| We Make Peace and We Pray | |
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| We Sing | |
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| Transformations | |
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| Worship Forms Mission III: Worshipping Christians in the World | |
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| Witness | |
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| Being | |
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| Affections | |
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| Actions | |
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| Deviance: Individual and Corporate | |
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| Missional Worship in the Worldwide Church | |
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| We Worship the God of All the Nations | |
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| The Worldwide Vision of the New Testament | |
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| Pre-Christendom: A Worldwide Vision | |
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| Christendom: The Vision Narrows | |
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| Christianity Becomes Worldwide Again | |
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| Post-Christendom: Worldwide Interdependence | |
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| Relationships | |
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| Gift Sharing: Structures | |
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| Changes in Worship and Mission | |
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| Gifts for Worship | |
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| Gifts for Mission | |
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| Worldwide Christianity: A Transcultural Community | |
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| Outsiders Come to Worship I: What the Outsiders Experience | |
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| Worship and Outsiders in Christian History | |
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| Why Outsiders Come | |
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| What the Outsiders See: Paul's Concerns | |
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| Where the Outsiders Meet Christians: A Liminal Space | |
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| The Outsiders in Christian Worship: Inculturation | |
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| Five Models of Church: Domestic, Megachurch, Cathedral, Congregation, Outsider-Directed | |
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| What the Outsiders See: Actions of Christian Worship | |
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| What the Outsiders Intuit: The Church's Ethos | |
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| What the Outsiders Intuit: About God | |
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| Outsiders Come to Worship II: Hospitality and Wholeness | |
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| Attending Church by Choice | |
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| Hospitality: A Task for All Christians | |
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| Hospitality in Worship | |
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| Outsiders and the Table: Three Approaches | |
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| Worship and Mission in a Body Made Whole | |
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| Breathing In, Breathing Out | |
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| Appendix: Are Americans in Christendom? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |