Sinclair Ferguson, The Grace of Repentance:
Worship is increasingly becoming a spectator event of visual and sensory power, rather than a verbal event in which we engage in a deep soul dialogue with the Triune God.…
There was a time when four simple words were enough to bring out goose bumps on the neck of our ancestors: “Let us worship God.” Not so for twentieth- and twenty-first century evangelicals. Now there must be color, movement, and audiovisual effects. God cannot be known, loved, praised, and trusted for his own sake.
We have lost sight of the great things — the fact that Christ himself is the true sanctuary of the new-covenant people, that true beauty is holiness, that when the Lord is in his temple all are transfixed with a heart of silence before him. These are the glories of worship.”
Words of Grace 