This Assembly of Believers

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Among the symbols with which the liturgy deals none is more important than this assembly of believers.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This claim made in the 1970s forces the local church to consider those within its congregation and recognise the gifts and challenges of difference within the church community. In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This Assembly of Believers</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Bryan Cones seeks to take seriously the pastoral context of a congregation recognising the physical ability gender and sexuality of those who make up the congregation.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Starting each chapter with their lived experience Cones poses important questions of the liturgy in light of these experiences before realigning the liturgy to demonstrate the positive theological significance of the marginalised within the congregation.</span></p>