Christ- Centered Worship

What joy I received when Robert Webber defended the key concept of Worship, Christ. In fact, when I read his response to Horness's article, I almost yelled "Finally!" We can never emphasize the Gospel of Christ enough. On page 130, Webber states,

"Who can love God with all his heart, mind and soul? Who can achieve perfect union with God? Who can worship God with a pure and unstained heart? Not me! Not Joe Horness, either. Not you. Not Billy Graham. Not Bill Hyebels. Not Matt Redman. Not anybody I know or you know. Only Jesus can. And he does for me and for you what neither of us can do for ourselves. This is the message that is missing in the literature of contemporary worship. It is too much about what I ought to do and too little about what God has done for me. God has done for me what I cannot do for myself. He did it in Jesus Christ. Therefore my worship is offered in a broken vessel that is in the process of being healed, but is not yet capable of fullness of joy, endless intense passion, absolute exaltation, and celebration. But Jesus, who shares in my humanity yet without sin, is not only my Savior- he is also my complete and eternal worship, doing for me, in my place, what I cannot do." (130)

When Webber refers to "contemporary worship" maybe he is not just mentioning the music?

Webber's next three paragraphs are also dead on. There's not much I can add. All I can say in response is "Hallelujah, for the blood of the Lamb that was slain!"