Sacramental worship is distinguished by its use of sign-acts, that is acts that convey meaning. Sacraments are a type of sign that involves acts, words, and (usually) objects. Calvin repeats Augustine's dictum: "Add the word to the element, and there results a sacrament, as if itself also a kind of visible word."1 More specifically, we might say that in sacraments words become part of an action using an object such as bread, wine, oil, and water. In Christian worship, both the spoken word (as found