inauthentic worship?

There was a recent article on “authentic worship” in a Christian magazine I subscribe to. It struck me that even the term “authentic worship” turns the emphasis of worship back onto the self rather than on God. Contemporary Christians seem more concerned with expressing our true selves to God in our worship experience rather than with expressing truths about God in the ways that we worship.

The point of worshiping God is to express outwardly and as God’s people that He is the Lord of all, that He is our King, that we are grateful for His amazing grace toward us in Christ, and that He alone is worthy of being worshiped. Whether I do it “authentically” or not doesn’t change who God is. So it seems to me that Christians should be more interested in articles on Who God is, and what makes Him worthy of our worship. And we should be more concerned with finding ways to use our limited resources to declare what an infinitely glorious and gracious God we worship.

In other words, maybe we should read more theology and build more cathedrals? What a concept.