We are not just entertained by our amusements, we are shaped by them. If those entertainments are worldly, the world behind them is working energetically to press us into its mold, and to make us conform to its wisdom.
At the same time, the worship of God is shaping us, and is recreating us so that we will be finally conformed to the image of the true man, Jesus Christ. We are called to be transformed, by the renewing of the mind.
When our worship is true, these two different forms of cultural discipline clash with one another. Whenever the worldly entertainment approach is victorious, the worship of God is gradually turned into something which does not resist what is happening to our hearts and minds the rest of the week. At the end of this process of decay, not only does it not resist, it tends to accelerate the process.
But we want to come to worship God according to His Word. This means that we should frequently find our worldly assumptions affronted, sometimes insulted, and always challenged. Receive such challenges – such admonitions are oil upon the head. Remember that the kisses of an enemy are profuse – your entertainments are flattering you with countless lies. But faithful are the wounds of a friend. The worship of God in the beauty of holiness is the true friend of sinners.