In the Divine Service, we believe that the Lord Jesus Christ Himself comes truly, really, and physically (though supernaturally) among us in His Body and in His Blood. Just as Jesus stood before His disciples in the upper room after His resurrection, so today in a similar way He stands before us now in the Holy Communion. Wherever Christ is, there is Heaven; in the Divine Service, the veil between Heaven and earth is lifted, we are in Heaven before the throne of the Lamb, and our hymns are joined with those of the “angels and archangels and with all the company of Heaven.” That is, our worship here accords with the heavenly worship described in Isaiah 6:1-7 and Revelation 5.
Just a sampler. . . read the whole thing here. . .
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/leithart/2014/05/too-liturgical
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"And that danger also exists in “liturgical churches.” Those who think the church needs no liturgy are obviously anti-liturgical; but churches that crowd the liturgy are also anti-liturgical because they also divert the liturgy away from those places where the Spirit has promised to be active – in the Word and at the Table."
I have come to believe that the author of the blog post you site and many like him are causing as much havoc with regard to worship in the LCMS as are those who on the other extreme!
Extremists on both sides of the spectrum cause a lot of problems. Fundamentalism is never a good thing.
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