Pulpit, Font, and Table

Something I have been thinking about a lot lately is what we Reformed folk call the 'Means of Grace' or sometimes the 'ordinary Means of Grace.'  Specifically those that we receive in Worship; Word and Sacrament, as dispensed from the pulpit, Font, and Table. It might be said that these are the three most important pieces of furniture in your church. The "Big Three." Obviously, the furniture itself isn't holy, right? No, it's not. The pulpit is just a pulpit, the Font is just a font, and the Table is just a table. They're truly just pieces of furniture. What's more important is what is being dispensed from them. From the pulpit (assuming your church still has one) the Word of God is read and exposited. Sinclair Ferguson said, "Biblical Christianity is where the Word of God jumps out of the pulpit and runs around the church transforming people's lives." Preaching ought to thunder from the Sanctuary and into the halls of the church. It ought to affect everything that we do as the Covenant people.
The Word in all its forms is our food (Matthew 4:4, Psalm 119:11), and this brings us to the visible Word: the Sacraments.
From the Font (or baptistery, if you're most of American Evangelicalism) we receive the visible Word of Baptism, entering into the Covenant community and signifying and sealing to us that we belong to Christ.
Finally, at the Table we are fed and nourished by Jesus himself in a glorious Covenant meal that binds us to Him until He returns.
I am convinced that today's Evangelicalism has a warped and low view of all of these; the ultimate result of a low view of God's Word. These Means of Grace are not to be taken lightly. Are they not, after all, means by which God has chosen to communicate his saving and sanctifying grace? They were given for our spiritual good, to engage all our senses. We hear the Word preached, and see, taste, smell and feel the Word administered in the Sacraments. That's pretty cool.
So come to the pulpit, wonder at the Font, and rejoice at the Table week in and week out. Gratefully receive the gifts of God from the "Big Three."