[Wallace T.]

I am aware that there are liturgical churches where God's Word is faithfully and accurately taught. The Reformed Episcopalians and the Wisconsin Synod Lutherans come to mind. James Kennedy, a PCA minister, runs a robes and ritual congregation in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. However, the liturgy of these churches, similar as it is to the mainline liberal denominations, must be an impediment to sound preaching, as it focuses on externals rather than the Word of God.

[Lexinom]

Again, no argument. I feel much closer fellowship with Baptists who hold a different view of the covenant but believe the Bible than with liberals from the Christian Reformed Church who, though they profess to believe the same creed, have alas, wandered very far from the Shepherd.

The Pharisees had the externals down to a science.

I don't feel any inclination to defend any of the denominations you mentioned (WSL or REC, which I did attend for a year), since I don't belong to any of them but would worship - ideally - in a church with a very simple order of worship, with deep and penetrating, experiential preaching (both the expository and doctrinal kind), and singing before the Lord. The sacraments are faithfully administered (they are in the Bible). The flock is fed and God is glorified in the simple, biblical, hearfelt worship of His people.

Such churches are few indeed, perhaps signs we're close to the end... Oh, I do wish the Lord would come quickly!