Most ecumenical work on worship has been greatly influenced by those traditions which use written liturgical texts and who give a normative place to the Eucharist. Here Free Church worship however is studied on its own terms allowing its ecumenical contribution to be fully appreciaed. Using a study of Baptist worship, Gathering explores the spirituality implicit in a worship tradition which to dated has received little theological or historical attention. "What makes this book refreshing is that Ellis] is not a prisoner to the view that the job of the liturgical movement is really to...