is time to awake, to move beyond the syncretistic forms of religion in which modernity dictated that faith be confined within a very restricted area of the personal life, and to catch the vision of a whole world released from a culture of death and the bondage to idols. Perhaps the most critical issue for the church in the urban world concerns the quality of its worship, and the extent to which that worship impacts daily life, shaping decisions and choices which may have previously been driven by the values of an economistic culture. As Mark Labberton has said, in the act of worship “we cast
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