Quote of the Week
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Mar 23, 2020: Worship Is Action
We must return to worship as the corporate action of the body of Christ. Worship is not something done in front of the congregation or to the congregation as though there are actors and an audience. In the early church, [there was] participation of the entire local body of Christians, as in 1 Corinthians 12-14.
-Robert Webber, Common Roots: The Original Call to an Ancient-Future Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009), 126. -
Mar 16, 2020: Hope and Expectation
God has recapitulated the error of the first-formed man by the obedience of the second-formed man. By his own two hands—the incarnate Word and Holy Spirit—he has renewed the face of the earth, and we can now live in hope and expectation of God’s completed history.
-Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2008), 176-177. -
Mar 9, 2020: Worship Develops Faith
The historic Christian understanding and practice of worship will provide forms through which a committed personal faith in Jesus Christ will find greater depth and meaning. These forms . . . [include]: (1) the restitution of the historic shape of worship; (2) the restitution of the Lord’s Supper as a source of spiritual nourishment; and (3) the restoration of the Christian concept of time, especially as it relates to the restitution of the church year.
-Robert Webber, Common Roots: The Original Call to an Ancient-Future Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009), 125. -
Mar 2, 2020: The Climax of Worship
The climax of worship is the Eucharist, for the symbols of bread and wine are the material objects that in a mysterious manner are connected with the broken body and shed blood of Jesus Christ, through whom [one] worships the Father. For this reason, the early church had a high view of the symbols of bread and wine and their place in Christian worship.
-Robert Webber, Common Roots: The Original Call to an Ancient-Future Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009), 116. -
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