This is an amazing book. Of course, some of you by now think that I have never read a book I didn't rave about. That's not true (There is a reason, for example, why I haven't reviewed "The Divine Conspiracy"); I just read a lot of books, and force people to read the ones I really, really, like.

This is one of those books (that I really, really, liked). For me, one of the signs of a good book is that my thinking is not limited to focusing on what the author is saying, but that the author inspires the reader to think even more. For me, reading this book was explosive; occasionally I would read a sentence that would cause thoughts to explode in my head like those fireworks that send off meteors of colored lights that then burst in secondary explosions. OK, enough hyperbole.

This is not another book on postmodernism. In fact, the word is only used a couple of times.  However, this is a great book about postmodernism, especially for those who don't care to read about postmodernism.

Boschman takes a completely different tack, looking at the nature of communication and how moving from an oral culture to a written culture, to an electronic culture, to finally the digital culture we have today and how that impacts community and church and, of course, worship.  After all, this is a book about worship.

I think this is also a great book for anyone who is contemplating the nature of church and worship and community. I have suggested it to those who are in the process of creating new forms and planting new churches, as I think it could be a sort of primer on church planting. Without understanding the nature of today's culture (unless you really want to build a mission to the old culture), it's darn near impossible to plant something new, as old forms and methods won't hold up under today's digital culture. He writes, "Our success in conveying the gospel is being measured by our view of the future."

What I found fascinating was Boschman's conclusion that the advent of the digital age has brought us back to interactive communications, something we really haven't had since we "grew" away from relying primarily on oral communication, and how this forces the issue of changing how we conduct church and how we worship together. From here, he paints a very interesting and challenging picture of the future.

Again, I think this is a great book for those who haven't "gotten" postmodernism, because Future Worship deals with the issues by analyzing how we communicate, which is something most pastors and leaders do understand (and grasp the importance of).