I see just how important our response is when we meet God in worship. Response is a necessary element in the communication that takes place at worship. It is the complement to God’s speaking and acting. . . . Worship cannot take place without our response to God himself, wherein our innermost selves reach out to him.
-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Pub., 1996), 110.