I entered worship not knowing what to expect. I wasn't familiar with this church, it was a non-denominational church, but the pastor had his roots in AME Zion Church and branched out to start his own church. I entered the sanctuary ready to participate in Sunday school. I found a seat and prepared to engage in a meaningful discussion. After sitting for several minutes, I asked one of the gentlemen standing in front of the church if they had started yet and where the lesson was from. He looked at his watch and indicated that he didn't know if we had time for Sunday school. A perplexed look appeared on my face and I couldn't help but express my confusion as I looked at my watch and we had 45 minutes left before the worship service began. He then grumbled a little and said ok, ok, we can start now. He then presented to the group a concern he had regarding the summoning. He started by giving an analogy that if he goes to your house, he expects to find you. There is no need to invite you to your home. I slowly raised my hand. He called me reluctantly. I expressed to him the relevance of refocusing and humbling himself in the presence of God. We must remember that God is in the audience and we must give Him proper recognition by acknowledging Him and expressing our unworthiness to be in His divine presence. From his initial questions, I deduced that he came from a worship tradition that did not embrace the traditional invocation, but perhaps replaced "the invocation with an informal greeting from the pastor...in a false attempt to create a “community” and put the faithful at ease. » Worship is not intended to be a “feel-good” experience...... middle of paper ......nge. The pastor was aware that God was in the audience. He wasn't there to entertain, he was there to teach and help transform. As I analyzed the presentation and words of his sermon, I thought about how successful his sermon would have been if he had a televised ministry. I thought about Postman and his analytical and critical approach to understanding television ministry. This sermon was clearly not intended to entertain the masses, it was not intended to perpetuate a false sense of contempt for our current existence; a culture plagued by false idols of greed and excess. God is no longer the center or catalyst of experience, but man is. Everything is done during worship time; including hearing the word of God, is an act of worship. This worship should kill us because we realize our unworthiness to be in the presence of God.