Worship as mission : an explication of the relationship between worship and mission, as seen in the 'Evangelical Lutheran Book of Worship' and among some scholars within the fields of liturgy and missiology

摘要

Worship and Mission are two terms that give a variety of associations. I, myself, have oftenunderstood the term “worship” in relation to a specific type of expression or genre that hasmore or less been related to a type of Christian music, “worship music”. I have alsounderstood the term “mission” in a somewhat limited way; as the practice of some Christiansin “carrying out” the Christian faith to people who still haven’t heard the gospel. Lately,however, my awareness and understanding of these two terms has been expanded, mainly, asa result of the year I had as a student at Wartburg Theological Seminary, where these twoterms were understood more in the sense of “what it means to be church”. Worship was usedas an expression of what I normally would associate with the Norwegian term“Gudstjeneste”, and Mission, on the other hand, was first and foremost understood in terms ofbeing an expression of the nature of the church. The two terms were intertwined, and worshipwas fundamentally understood as mission in its very doing.