In the evangelical world, touching sacred cows, let alone prodding them with a sharp stick, is a perilous business: Sabbath, Evangelism and Christmas spring to mind. Risking – to put it mildly – the unsympathetic reaction of many of my fellowbelievers – though not courting it – in other works I have fully tackled the first two,1 and, in passing, spoken of the third. I now turn to another untouchable – Public Worship. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that I return to it. |