Longing for Jesus

<DIV>The Church at Worship is a series of documentary case studies of specific worshiping communities from around the world and throughout Christian history that can inform and enrich worship practices today. In this third volume <I>Longing for Jesus</I> Lester Ruth vividly portrays a prominent African-American holiness church in Jackson Mississippi in the early twentieth century.<br><br>Ruth's rich selection of primary documents presents readers with a vibrant snapshot of this dynamic church and its pastor Charles Price Jones caught between factors that threatened the existence of the congregation itself: Jim Crow racism conflicting visions for the church appropriate Christian piety and social aspirations. In the midst of conflicts inside and outside the church fought to create a space where it could worship Jesus as it saw fit.</DIV>