Any pastor who tires of ordering the Sunday service and sadly concludes, “Oh well, it’s good enough,” would do well to recall the chilling reminder of Romans 1. Worship matters! It is the means by which we express our humanity—our status as created beings—in the most truthful of ways. Thomas Long observes that “authentic worship genuinely meets people’s needs because people need to worship. Worshiping God is not simply a good thing to do, it is necessary, it is a necessary thing to do to be human.”5
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