Worship-prayer does God’s history in this world using the language that is particular and peculiar to the Christian story. The language of prayer is the language of creation, fall, covenant, Passover, tabernacle, prophetic utterance, incarnation, death, resurrection, ascension, church, baptism, Eucharist, eternal intercession, eschaton. These . . . are the specific words of the biblical God, and consequently they constitute the language of worship, prayer, contemplation, and participation. There are no comparable words, no substitutes, no adaptations.
-Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2008), 163-164.