Worship brings glory to God because it remembers God’s saving deeds in the past and anticipates God’s culmination of his saving deeds in the new heavens and new earth. . . . If it is acknowledged that the content of worship is remembrance and anticipation, it should be an easy step to take to see that the structure of worship serves the content of worship. The Word remembers and the Eucharist anticipates. (This does not mean there is no anticipation in the Word nor remembrance in the Eucharist. It is a broad generalization that stimulates provocative thought about what worship does rather than a stiff, unbending framework,) The style of doing Word and Table is a matter of making the content and structure of worship indigenous to the local setting. — Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2008), 86, 91.