We were taught that God is present in mysterious ways and the focus was primarily on my relationship with God, not with the other worshippers in the room. A part of my seminary training was an effort to move the church back the other way to church as community, God's presence among the people gathered. So we use bread and wine. And last year one of our members agreed to bake the bread each week. Now the bread is always homemade, it is different each week, it is real life stuff.
Worship is more informal, less predictable, always changing, like all the rest of life.
What we do is still ritual, but it is rarely the same ritual. I'm not saying this is better than what we did twenty years ago, but it is certainly different, more fluid and flexible. Another example of how worship has become more organic is with baptism. One of my worship teachers said that when you do a baptism make sure that there is evidence that there has been a bath. For him water splashed around and towels lying around were a sign that someone had been cleaned.