Wilson on Worship

"Reformed Christians have sometimes reacted away from the man-centered worship of much of the contemporary church, and they have lurched to another extreme, one just as dangerous. If you react away from a style of worship that seems to be saying nothing more than 'gimme, gimme, gimme,' the temptation is to think that 'God-centered worship' means therefore coming before the Lord in order to receive nothing at all. 'We come to give glory to God, to focus on Him. We do not come in selfishness, like those others.' But this is extremely wrong-headed. How did we get to the point where we came to believe that implicit declarations of our self-sufficiency, of our lack of a need to receive anything from God in worship, were anything but arrogant posturing."

-Continue reading Doug Wilson's blog entry here.