Jan 21, 2019: The Power of Symbols

Robert E. Webber

Response is always related to something specific and concrete. . . . Worship is a response to someone and something that happened. We respond to God—to who he is and to what he has done for us in Jesus Christ. . . . I respond to God through external rites such as song, prayer, Scripture, and Communion Table. For me, such symbols have the power to recollect a past event. Even as Passover has the power to re-create the Exodus-event for the people of Israel, so our worship today must be characterized by evocative symbols that recollect the Christ-event.


-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Pub., 1996), 117-118.

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Alumni Director, Practicum Professor, and DWS graduate.

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