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[/qotw] There is a picture that captures the divine and human substance of worship; it is Michelangelo’s depiction of God reaching out to man and man reaching out to God, the fingers of both nearly touching. The two fingers say it is God who first initiates a relationship with us, but man must respond. Worship is the story between the two fingers. It is the story of how God and man, once united in the garden but now separated by the fall, express their union. But the man whose finger is stretched forth to touch the finger of God is not everyman. It is, so to speak, the finger of the one man, who for all mankind reestablished the union between man and God, and his name is Jesus.[/qotw]
-Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2008), 107-108.