Quote: John Piper on Worship

"The...implication of focusing on the essence of worship as satisfaction in God is that it protects the primacy of worship by forcing us to come to terms with the fact that worship is an end in itself.

If the inward essence of worship is satisfaction in God, then worship can't be a means to anything else.  You simply can't say to God, I want to be satisfied in You so that I can have something else."

John Piper, Brother's We are Not Professionals