In most Protestant churches the bread and cup are brought to the people who quietly sit, waiting for the elements. But in the early church the people stood up, walked to the Table, and stood to receive the bread and wine. This action contains a decisional choice that is powerful.
-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1996), 53.