We call for public worship that sings, preaches and enacts God’s story. . . . Turn away from forms of worship that focus on God as a mere object of the intellect or that assert the self as the source of worship. Such worship has resulted in lecture-oriented, music-driven, performance-centered and program-controlled models that do not adequately proclaim God’s cosmic redemption. . . . We . . . [must] recover the historic substance of worship of Word and Table and attend to the Christian year, which marks time according to God’s saving acts.
-Robert E. Webber, Who Gets to Narrate the World? Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 121.