
The importance of the Table of the Lord is that it dramatizes the story of redemption. When Jesus said, “Do this in remembrance of me,” he prescribed a pattern of worship that was meant, like Passover, to symbolically repeat again and again the story of redemption.
-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1996), 96.