Jul 15, 2019: Redeemed Time

Robert E. Webber

The church, by recapitulating the kairos event, can mystically and symbolically represent time as redeemed. . . . Worship . . . is meant to celebrate the coming of Christ (Advent); the birth of Christ (Christmas); the manifestation of Christ as the light of the whole world (Epiphany); the impending death of Christ (Lent); the events of his last week (Holy Week); the resurrection (Easter); and the coming of the Holy Spirit (Pentecost). These are the kairos events for Christians that give meaning and significance to our day-to-day lives in the world. I am convinced that we need to restore the sacred sense of time and return to the church year in our worship.


-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Pub., 1996), 160-161.

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Alumni Director, Practicum Professor, and DWS graduate.

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