it is God who is both the subject and the object of our worship; the whole point of “liturgical lines and rituals” is to create “a powerful environment of God-centeredness.”[40] Worship is not for me—it’s not primarily meant to be an experience that “meets my felt needs,” nor should we merely reduce it to 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[41] of worship: it is to and for God, and God is
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