A church service isn’t for you to be inspired, driven to live a better life, or to ask you to give more money. God gives you of Himself FIRST, in the sacraments, in the reading of His Word, in the praising of Him via song. If your church has got this turned upside down, find a new church.

None of us can work our way to holiness. We can respond joyfully and worthily and in holiness to the Christian gift of eternal salvation we have been given in the person and work of Jesus Christ, but it is God who gave and continues to give to us first to enable those responses by us.