Quote of the Week
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Jun 10, 2019: Pentecost Sunday
Pentecost Sunday ends the extraordinary season that began on the first Sunday of Advent. In approximately six months the church has been carried through all the saving events of God—his incarnation, manifestation to the world, life, death, resurrection, and ascension as well as the coming of the Holy Spirit. All these crucial events form faith and the spiritual life. . . . In a clear, directed, and evangelical practice of the Christian year, there is no missing of the point.
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2004), 163. -
Jun 3, 2019: Symbols of Re-Creation
Bread and wine, these elements of creation, become the symbols of re-creation. For his body broken for us and his blood spilt for us are the signs of renewal and restoration. Thus, we are ministered to by the bread and wine, enabling us, in turn, to minister to the needs of others.
-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Pub., 1996), 151. -
May 27, 2019: Pass the Peace
In the early church it was appropriate to offer the kiss of peace after the prayers. . . . [It] was a gesture signifying that we are at peace with God and with our neighbors. Because God has reconciled us to the Father through Jesus Christ, we ought to be reconciled to each other. . . . Pass the peace with a handshake or an embrace, and with a real sense of warmth and love, saying, “The peace of the Lord be with you.”
-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Pub., 1996), 146-147. -
May 20, 2019: Prayer as Response
The placement of prayer after the word is crucial. We have been brought into the very presence of God. In his presence, we have waited to hear him speak before laying our concerns before him. We have not blurted out our cares and concerns without paying attention to what he has to say. But now that he has spoken to us through his Word, what better time is there to take before him our collective and individual concern? Now is the time for petition: prayers for the local church worldwide, and prayers for the needs of the world. In the ancient church pastoral prayer was nonexistent. Prayer belonged to the people and arose out of the congregation.
-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Pub., 1996), 145. -
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