Glimpses of Christian History Presents Factoid #24: Unintentional By-Product © 2007

ne cannot overestimate the ecstasy and joy that reading the Scriptures in the vernacular and preaching the Word of God brought to many sixteenth-century Christians a new and unfamiliar form of communion with God. Such communion was so personal, so intimate, that it often simply made the visible word of the sacraments seem redundant and remote. That was not the intention but frequently the effect of the reformers' work.

From James F. White's Protestant Worship.