...if left unchecked and not tethered to biblical truth, contemporary worship will come to be valued only for the interest it can generate or experience it can induce. In other words, worship becomes an instrument for the effects it produces rather that celebration of God as he is in himself. In such cases "worship takes on an authority of its own so that only in and through the experience of worship, and the way we perform in worship, can grace be appropriated; hence, the pressure to make something happen. Worship as spiritual formation is sidelined in favour of worship as effect."
Sam Storms, Convergence, p. 154
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