Live churches are constantly improving for the future. Live churches move out in faith. Live churches focus on people. Live churches are filled with tithers. Live churches dream great dreams of God.
Live churches evangelize.
These distractions only keep from us the presence of God. It was imperative to remove the distractions so that the worship experience was all it could be. These were merely the preparations for worship, but they were important to the experience all would share together later. Much of the problems we have in appreciating a worship experience would be lifted if our focus was properly placed. Cleansing is the preliminary step to entering into worship.