This book is an attempt to provide a structure for thinking seriously about worship as a part of Christian faith and experience.

It is also an attempt to learn something about the nature of the church by exploring how it gathers for prayer.

Groundwork Of Christian Worship addresses the questions 'What is Christian Worship?' and 'Why do Christians worship as they do?' It looks at forms of prayers and structures of time, at the place of music and the arts, at biblical norms and contemporary issues of authority, ecumenism and inter-faith relations. Its deeper object, however, is actually to learn something about the church, and to ask the question 'What can we know about the Christian church by looking at the ways in which it gathers, and has gathered in other times and other places, for prayer?'