How will we teach Christianity’s specialness if the music in our worship services imitates the superficiality and meaninglessness of the general world and our sermons talk about subjects that those in the pew can learn from psychologists, sociologists, and the local television station?

…Our music must contain the substance of the faith, the heritage of the Church’s uniqueness, the character-forming truths of Christianity. Similarly, our sermons must be focused on the Word of God, which is the “special” domain of Christianity.

Our worship services ought not to be designed by what appeals to the masses in order to survive financially; rather, they must be planned in a genuinely worshipful way that invites persons into the essence of truthful Christianity.

from Reaching Out without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for the Turn-of-the-Century Culture