Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to his service and pleasing to him. This is the true worship that you should offer. It's dead, a mechanical routine. Something is happening to people's expectations of worship in this television age. Worship services for many are a morose experience.
Worship is the sublime and awesome key to everything the church does.
The mission of the early church was the fruit of worship. We too cannot meet the world until we have met God. According to the often-quoted words of William Temple, to worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God. Worship is a contraction of the old English word 'worth-ship'. It's recognizing that which is worth most, in the ultimate sense.