To ask the theological question is simply to ask, What does our worship say about God? or the corollary, What does God say to us about our worship?

Surely, this is the toughest and most basic question to be asked, but curiously, it is often the last question we ask.

If we think about our worship at all, usually we think in terms of, What do I want from our worship? or, What do my people want from our worship? without daring to be so bold as to ask, What does God want from our worship?

from Worship as Pastoral Care