How was worship a driving force behind the Reformation?

Joel Beeke explains in this video that the worship of God as He has prescribed in His Word was a major driving force behind the Reformation. Making the Word of God central to the pulpit and to the Church was a big part of the Reformation. 

For instance, one of the Reformers, Ulrich Zwingli, started preaching from the first chapter of Matthew and continued through the entire New Testament - this had never happened before. Believers began to participate in the singing and the sacraments. Thus, the centrality of Scripture and God-glorifying worship were two driving forces behind the Reformation. 

John 4:23-24 (NKJV) - But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”



The second driving force in the Reformation was the whole theme of worship. That's underplayed actually in today's thinking about the Reformation, but to worship God as he has prescribed in his word and to have the Word of God, not the sacraments, sacraments are important but they supplement the Word, but to have the Word of God central, to have the pulpit central in the architecture of the church, that was a big thing in the Reformation and so Olverick Zwingli already the father of the Reform branch of the Reformation began to preach from Matthew 1 straight through the New Testament that was unheard of. So a centrality of the word, a centrality of God-blowing worship in which laypeople would participate in the singing and also in the sacraments was a second driving force.