[Worship] can be more than a weekly emotional fix to carry us through our days. It can be more than cheap entertainment. It can be more than a spiritual waiting room where we indulge in a pleasing vision of the life that waits for us after death. It can be more than dry ritual and religious duty. The act of worship, properly understood and whole-heartedly practiced, can change everything. It can give us a new vision of ourselves and our world. Worship can lead us out of our ethic of expediency to becoming reflections of God's whole-iness. It can shift us beyond factual debates into the glorious truth of following Jesus and his way. Worship can lift us from our despair and pessimism into the creativity and inspiration of God-beautified imaginations. It can move us from fear-based tribalism into an open-hearted love for all, and it can challenge us to go beyond a meaningless, "come-what-may" existence to a life that is energised and given purpose by a vision of God's reign.