Thank you for reply! These are all helpful thoughts!

I have a couple of follower up questions.

Below are two quotes from Dr. Godfrey’s article that I referenced.

“The classic pattern of Protestant worship was for the minister to lead the worship. That pattern arose from the teaching of the New Testament, since out of the congregation God called pastors and teachers to be set apart for leadership roles.”

“The role of the minister in leading this dialogue between God and his people is sometimes unclear because in worship the minister both speaks for God to the congregation and speaks for the congregation to God.“

The overall point of the article seems to be that corporate worship should be marked by a balance between reverence and joy. The dialogue aspect seems to lean towards the reverence side - not just anyone can speak on behalf of God to the people and not just anyone can speak on behalf of the people to God.

Do most reformed churches still practice this dialogue in corporate worship? Is it intending to restrict the number of people leading corporate worship or just to restrict it to men that have been ordained into ministry?