Nov 13, 2017: Prayers at the Table

Robert E. Webber

In churches throughout Christendom today, the prayers that are said at the Lord’s Table bless God for all his good gifts and particularly for his gift of salvation. Often, there is a discernible pattern to these prayers based on the written prayers of the early church—a blessing of God, memories that evoke motives for thanksgiving, the remembrance, a prayer for the coming of the Holy Spirit, and prayers having to do with the fulfillment of God’s work in history. In short, the prayers recapitulate the Gospel.


-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1996), 50-51.

About the author

Alumni Director, Practicum Professor, and DWS graduate.

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