Worship is not for your benefit - Rick Warren

The follow excerpt was taken from the Purpose Driven Life page 66 and also goes along with other biblical teaching I have heard about what worship should be:

" Worship is not for your benefit - As a pastor, I receive notes that say, " I loved the worship today. I got alot out of it." This is another misconception about worship. It isn't for our benefit! We worship for God's benefit. When we worship our goal is to bring pleasure to God, not ourselves.

If you ever said, " I didn't get anything out of worship today," you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn't for you. It's for God. Of course, most "worship" services also include elements of fellowship, edification, and evangelism, and there are benefits to worship, but we don't worship to please ourselves. Our motive is to bring glory and pleasure to our Creator.

In Isaiah 29 God complains about worship that is half-hearted and hypocritical. The people were offering God stale prayers, insincere praise, empty words, and man-made rituals without even thinking about the meaning. God's heart is not touched by tradition in worship, but by passion and commitment. The Bible says, " These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men."