Worship is an end in itself, not a means to something else. Karl Barth has appropriately declared that the “church’s worship is the opus Dei, the work of God, which is carried out for its own sake.” When we try to worship for the sake of certain benefits that we may receive, the act ceases to be worship; for then it attempts to use God as a means to something else. We worship God purely for the sake of worshipping God. To worship is: • to quicken the conscience by the