Although worship dramatizes an event that happened long ago, it brings that event into the present by the power of the Holy Spirit. In each worship experience, I am present in the actual event. Each worship experience contains the fullness of the birth, life, teachings, ministry, death, resurrection, and promised return of Christ. . . . For example, on Christmas I am present at the birth of Christ; on Epiphany I am there at the presentation of Christ; on Maundy Thursday I am present at the Last Supper; on Good Friday I am taken to the cross and put into the tomb; on Easter I stand at the empty tomb; and on Pentecost Sunday I receive the Holy Spirit.
-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Pub., 1996), 119-120.