From The Living Church-In Evangelical Versus Liturgical? Defying a Dichotomy, Melanie C. Ross commends evangelical Christians to liturgical ones. Evangelicals are not careful to preserve the ecumenical ordo established at least since the second century, which would seem to bar the possibility of a conversation. In lieu of the ecumenical ordo, evangelicals have created an ordo of pragmatism: do what works to convert souls.
Ross points out that an ordo is still an ordo, however, which opens the door for conversation. If a conversation can start, then Ross suggests that it might be grounds for claiming that the unity of the Church is not strictly liturgical, but also pneumatological. The same Spirit inhabits evangelical and liturgical Christians alike, and this, Ross says, is what evangelicals want their liturgical sisters and brothers to know.
More here-
http://livingchurch.org/covenant/2017/08/24/evangelical-or-liturgical/
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