What Is Worship?

So, I'm surprised at how many people actually read this blog thing. I thought, it was just going to be a spot where I could write down my own thoughts, without everyone being "in" on what I was thinking, oh well, if anything I write or decide to comment on lifts your spirits, or stirs in you in any way. Then, I guess that could be a good thing, couldn't it?

Now, I feel the need to state my opinion on something. It's probably a touchy subject, so I'm sorry if I "offend"

Worship

Yeah, I know most of you are probably rolling your eyes, "ugh...just another one of these"...but seriously. Think about it for a second.

What IS worship? Obviously, yeah, it's anything you do to praise and honour God, but that's so...cliche.

I'm talking about the "singing" aspect of worship, the kind where you stand in a crowd and see a band get up on stage and "do their thing" and walk off, leaving everyone the option to remain in the state of worship and let their heart be consumed with God, or let their thoughts take them back to where they were before that 20 minuet break for singing. I know most of us if not all of us are guilty of singing just because we don't want to be the odd one out, or seem "rude", or just because "heck, I like this song, so why not sing it?"...but when we are singing praises to God and and not focusing on Him and all His glory, aren't the songs we sing just empty words? And aren't our hearts just remaining tainted, feelingless or maybe...guiltless? But if we WERE singing to God and weren't