Worship-prayer focuses on God’s self-giving love through which he recapitulates the human condition, restores our union with God, and promises a restored creation in the new heavens and new earth. This history that we pray is not dead but alive and active for it is God’s activity, God’s presence, God’s reality working within history to redeem it and restore it.
-Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2008), 163.