I want to try this morning to create a consciousness in our church that worship is an end in itself.
Worship is never a step on our way up to any other experience.
It is not a door through which we pass to get anywhere. It is the end point, the goal. I remember one night in my room in Saint Hall at Wheaton College my senior year. I was struggling with what should motivate me to try to win people to Christ. But then I translated that purpose into an actual witnessing experience.