"I feel like I'm 20 years late to Robert Webber's party," he said at the National Outreach Convention last week in San Diego, Calif. Webber, who dubbed the term "ancient future worship," had called churches to blend contemporary worship styles with the liturgical practices of the early church.

Hunter, who is currently a bishop in the Anglican Mission In the Americas, had recently come across friends who found their Christian faith being restored through liturgies. Two dechurched friends told Hunter they had never kneeled before in their life as a believer and found that kneeling was rewiring their souls. Another friend said reciting creeds is making his faith come alive.

And when he met with a young adult who frequents parties and with whom he is well acquainted with, he received a vision that if she and others around her age just prayed the Prayer of Confession week after week, it would rewire their moral thinking.

When he was involved in the emerging church movement, Hunter found that there was a fascination among postmoderns with the past. Now a part of the Anglican Communion, he's discovering that liturgy can be used as a tool for evangelism.

"My sense is that there is a momentum, a hunger and that we're sort of tapping into it, I think," Hunter explained to The Christian Post. "I think we might be synergistically working with it (momentum)."

Hunter discovered the value of the "liturgical treasure chest" in the Anglican tradition after he was ordained in March and then consecrated as bishop in September. Formerly linked to the United Methodist Church, the seeker movement, the emerging church and the Vineyard Churches, Hunter had not planned on journeying into Anglicanism.