adoration in union with Christ. We know that the living Christ is in our midst, leading our worship, our prayers and our praises. It was the concern of the Reformers to recover this New Testament and early Christian view of worship. The medieval Church had tended to substitute the priesthood, the sacrifice, the merits, the intercession of the Church—the vicarious humanity of the ecclesia (Mary and the saints)—for the vicarious humanity of Christ in a way which obscured the gospel of grace, the good