The Difference Between Ancient-Future and Blended Worship

Taylor Burton-Edwards discusses the differences between “Ancient-Modern” and “Blended” worhship:

Ancient-future and “blended” are very different kinds of animals, at least as those two terms are usually used.

Ancient-future reflects the work of really two separate nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ecumenical movements that were mostly parallel, and then came to interact — the liturgical renewal movement growing out of the “re-un-earthings” of a lot of early Christian liturgical materials beginning in the late nineteenth century (some of which were a matter of having discovered how to translate some of these early languages again), PLUS the significant turn in the larger global mission movements toward what folks like Lesslie Newbigin would popularize as “indigenous mission.” Continue reading.