The only hope to nourish ministry is to return to God’s story in which the church and its worship are situated and recover the true nature and mission of the church as a community called to be the continuation of God’s story living out the purposes of God for humanity within community—proclaiming and living out the Good News. — Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 238.