“… that our dear Lord himself may speak to us through his holy Word and we respond to him through prayer and praise.”1 These famous words from Martin Luther’s sermon at the Dedication of the Castle Church in Torgau (1544) describe worship as a “word event” between God and human beings. For Luther the sacraments functioned as bodily words and analogously the proclamation of the word functioned in a sacramental way.2 Worship is the Sitz im Leben of theology or its point of reference; therefore, changes in theology manifest themselves in liturgy. Debates over the sacraments, their understanding, practice, and number were at the center of the debates among the Reformation movements and with the Roman church. There was a considerable variety of theologies and practices of sacraments and worship in the Reformation, though common structures can also be identified. In what follows, the central role of preaching in Reformation worship as a common feature will be highlighted first.