While most Christians today value worship and regard it as a vital part of the church's life and witness, there is also a wistful yearning that contemporary worship be vastly improved and given a more satisfying rationale. Believing that the agenda of worship needs a serious overhaul in our churches, well-known theologian Ralph P. Martin here reexamines the concept of worship, recasting its meaning in such a way as will relate its practice to the concerns, interests, and needs of men and women in our world.