Is it being faithful to Christ to throw together prayer, Scripture, and hymns to “fill in” until the sermon? Is it faithful to Christ to have an order that “doesn’t go anywhere”? . . . Since form does communicate, we must not only rid ourselves of a poor form that doesn’t bring us into resolve, but we must ask: How can order carry the worshiper through the Gospel and the experience of salvation?
-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1996), 57-58.