[wild74]

Church is spreading of the Word of the Lord Jesus Christ, teaching new Christians how to live the life Christ would have them live. Ritual is not church

[Cronos]

However, the Divine litury is NOT ritual -- Church is the community of God, worshipping him IN community as He said, following what He said

And He told us to remember His words, ponder on them, He gave us baptism, confession, eucharist as our sacraments in orthodoxy. Marriage too is a sacrament.

To call them "mere ritual" is the first step on the road for any group to become the ECUSA.