Contemplation is the wonder and astonishment of the God who reveals his nature through [his] saving actions. What more astonishing thing could one say: God has become incarnate, suffered for us, and is risen for us to reclaim us and the world to himself. . . . What wondrous splendor is the prayer of the church that we contemplate and through which we are stimulated by the Spirit to live in God’s narrative.
-Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2008), 165.