It’s about meaning, not preference.

Worship should be liturgical. We can trace this back to the upper room, and perhaps even further. Liturgy recalls the divine events of our collective history and collapses the span of time that separates us from them, placing us in union with Christ and the whole of the Christian church. In worship, we come together at God’s holy invitation, proclaim our sacred story through Word and Sacrament, and are sent back out to be a church for the world.

Oh, and it makes us work. Corporate worship is not time to sit back and veg out on Jesusy entertainment. No, much is expected out of us.

Worship shouldn’t be stuck in the past, present, or future. Because of the false worship dichotomy, “traditional” worship has in many cases been turned into meetings for old people; sentimental, self-indulgent hours of pining for how things once were.