The Essence of Worship

Worship can be summed up in pairs. There's the understanding of God revealed by his word. And then there is the emotional feeling response to what you understand. If you have understanding without feeling, you have a dead intellectualism. But if you try to short-circuit the understanding and hype everything on Sunday morning to get everybody feeling the right stuff, you've got a baseless emotionalism. True worship always functions to tell the truth to the mind and to reach the heart and move it by the truth.