[In] preaching . . . we proclaim God’s story, remembering his mighty deeds of salvation. In the Eucharist we enact or dramatize God’s story and its anticipated future, and in doing so, we are actually ushered into God’s kingdom in a momentary, existential experience of the kingdom to come.
-Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2008), 177.