The church, by its very existence, is the life of God’s embrace, and worship, when properly understood, is the continual experience of God’s embrace, reaching out from the hard wood of the cross. When the church and its worship are situated in the story of God’s embrace, our hearts will be nourished, our emotions will respond with delight, and our lives will intentionally participate in the life of God. — Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 221.