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There is a crisis of worship today. The problem goes beyond matters of style—it is a crisis of content and of form. Worship in churches today is too often dead and dry, or busy and self-involved. Robert Webber attributes these problems to a loss of vision of God and of God’s narrative in past, present, and future history. As he examines worship practices of Old Testament Israel and the early...

of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive” (1 Cor. 15:21–22). This second Adam who redeems creature and creation and restores God’s garden at the end of history is God himself, the incarnate Word. No human being can restore the garden. Only God can do that, and he does it by becoming one of us, taking on the curse of sin itself—death. By dying for us he destroys death and is raised to new life. His resurrection is a second act of creation, a
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