The Passover is not mere ritual, but is an acting out again and again of the main event of Jewish history, which has given meaning, significance, and purpose to the Jewish existence in the world. . . . For the Christian, the Table of the Lord took the place of the Passover. What gives shape and meaning to life for the Christian is not the Exodus-event, but the Christ-event. As God sent Moses to Israel to bring them up out of their bondage, so God has sent his Son to bring the whole world out of its bondage to sin. Thus, the death and resurrection of Christ, being the central act of this new redemption, now becomes the symbol of the meaning of our life in the world.
-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1996), 95-96.