But who can make that perfect response of love, that perfect act of penitence, that perfect submission to the act of guilty? …. It seems to me that in a pastoral situation our first task is not to throw people back on themselves with exhortations and instructions as to what to do and how to do it, but to direct people to the gospel of grace–to Jesus Christ, that they might look to him to lead them, open their hearts in faith and in prayer, and draw them by the Spirit into his eternal life of communion with the Father…. Jesus takes our prayers–our feeble, selfish, inarticulate prayers–he cleanses them, makes them his prayers, and in a ‘wonderful exchange’ he makes his prayer our prayers and presents us to the Father as his dear children, crying ‘Abba Father’
— James B. Torrance’s, Worship, Community and the Triune God of GraceChurch Music: Simultaneously the Bane and the Heart of Worship « Out of Bounds
