When we come before the Lord to worship Him, we are to have pure hearts. We have a vertical relationship with God, and a horizontal relationship with one another. The Bible teaches us that there needs to be a symmetry between those two.
If the liturgy and the sermon create the wrong kind of space, this creates an opportunity for a line of division to be created between the two. The sinful heart always wants to create that division regardless, and so the last thing you want to do is provide opportunities.
How can you love God, whom you have not seen, when you do not love your neighbor whom you have seen? Scripture tells us that we measure one by the other, and so look around.
If you are here to be seen by your neighbor, then you are missing it.
If you are here to see your neighbor, then you are not missing it. And by “see your neighbor,” I don’t mean “lay eyes on” — we are talking about the privilege of actually seeing Christ in His people.