What is this?

Anglican worship ends with this surging rush of Gospel mission. Having come up to the Lord’s Table and feasted with Him, we are sent-out with his benediction into the world, filled with the Spirit, set-ablaze with his love, shod with his peace, armed with his Word, “Therefore let us go forth into the world, rejoicing in the power of the spirit” says the deacon. “Thanks be to God!” we cry aloud. This is not a safe thing, a quiet departure, a slow shuffling out the door, it is not a liturgical way of saying “you-don’t-have-to-go-home-but-you-can’t-stay-here.” It is the marching song of martyrs –a word means “witness” …