Question 27.
Is the goal of worship about getting pleasure, or is it something else?
Answer 27.
If you will pardon the brevity, I would like to reference you to three articles which address this question in some depth:
Forget the Theories of Authentic Worship–Please Just Give Me a Bible Verse
Music, Worship, and Spiritual Gifts
Mega Churches: Postmodern Seeker Sensitivity
Worship is about service to God and to others (Romans 12), it is about edifying one another verbally (1 Corinthians 14:26), it is about praising the Lord of our salvation (Hebrews 2:12). We can worship in our grief and mourning (Eccl. 7:2), in cheerfulness and joy (2 Chron.29:30), in depression and desperation (Jonah 1:13,14), and in fear and trembling (Mark 5:33). Yet we find nowhere that the goal of worship is to attain pleasure for ourselves.
