Does Worship Change Us?

"Evangelicals do think that worship matters, but they also often view worship as a means to some other end than that of the glorification and enjoyment of God." (Give Praise to God page 25) So many times I've read or heard people say that we are changed in worship. Worship changes us. It is when we enter into worship that God works in our lives and we leave having become different people than the ones we were when we came in. I've always had a problem with that. My belief is that worship is a response to God's revelation. "To worship God, therefore, is to assign him his supreme worth, acknowledging him to be the creator and redeemer revealed in the Scriptures." (Give Praise to God page 6) As Doc says so often to us, we cannot worship a God we do not know. And it is through God's Word that we know him. What happens when you say that we are changed in worship is that the Bible no longer becomes the standard for truth, but experience becomes the standard. Instead of saying that we are changed in worship, we should say that we are changed and then we worship.