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.