"A Royal Waste of Time" ?

In this day and time with all the different opinions of what worship should be, what style of worship or music should be used and some churches even having "worship wars", one could ask the question, "Is this a waste of time trying to satisfy everybody?"  Marva Dawn in her book, A Royal Waste of Time, says the following to introduce her book.  "My primary concern in various churches' and denominations' struggles over worship is that so many decisions are being based on criteria other than the most essential --namely, that God be the Subject and Object, the Infinite Center, of our worship.  If we keep God as the center of our worship life and worship-full lives, then we will find countless possibilities, endless resources, innumerable ways to encounter and express God's infinite presence.  If we earnestly enter the adventure of weekly gatherings to waste time royally as we explore God's unceasing revelations, then we will stop fighting over the wrong questions, the church marketers' opinions, cultural pressures, unbiblical solutions." In Colossians 3:12 we discover we are chosen by God.  Not because we deserve or earned it.  Our abilities as musicians, or the kind of worshippers we are, doesn't change anything about how God feels about us.  We are chosen. Therefore, everything we do is a royal waste of time.  That awareness frees us to respond to his overwhelming grace with praise and whatever skills we have, with lives of ministry in His name.  We sing and play the greatest music possible, sometimes to the shock of others and ourselves, by the overwhelming grace of God.  With our focus on such a subject, how can we help but be passionate?  Another quote from Ms. Dawn in closing, "Worship is a royal waste of time that spirals into passion for living as Christians and back into more passionate worship.  It is totally irrelevant, not efficient, not powerful, not spectacular, not productive, sometimes not even satisfying to us. But, it is also the only hope for changing the world." Think on that.  mjm