James K. A. Smith’s book, You Are What You Love, offers a great description of what worship is all about…
“While worship is entirely embodied, it is not only material; and though worship is wholly natural, it is not only natural. Christian worship is nothing less than an invitation to participate in the life of the Triune God. In short, the centrality of embodiment should not be understood as a naturalizing of worship that would deny the dynamic presence of the Spirit. To the contrary, the Spirit meets, nourishes, transforms, and empowers us through and in such material practices. The Church’s worship is a uniquely intense site of the Spirit’s transformative presence. As Marva Dawn has put it, God is both the subject and object of our worship. The whole point of ‘liturgical lines and rituals’ is to create ‘a powerful environment of God-centeredness.’ Worship is not for me – it’s not primarily meant to be an experience that ‘meets my felt needs,’ nor should we reduce it to merely a pedagogy of desire (which would be just a more sophisticated pro me construal of worship); rather, worship is about and for God. To say that God is both subject and object is to emphasize that the Triune God is both the audience and the agent of worship; worship is to and for God, and God is active in worship in the Word and the sacraments.”