These days, when it comes to worship, almost anything goes. Churches employ worship "experts" who are tasked with keeping the services exciting, inspiring and innovative. Increasingly, the traditional elements of worship - the reading and preaching of the Word, prayer, and the singing of psalms with grace in the heart - are being displaced by more "crowd pleasing" elements, such as drama, concert performances, and interpretive dance. The goal, of course, is to attract people and to keep them coming back. Even in "traditional" churches, there is a marked tendency to downplay the preached Word and to focus more on the "entertaining" and "participatory" activities of the service. Does it matter? When it comes to worship, isn't anything we do acceptable as long as we're sincere? Does the Bible have anything to say on the subject? What does God think of contemporary worship? This book is an attempt to answer these questions through a thorough survey of the Bible.