whom your Lord Jesus Christ has revealed to you; and if you will
consider that he is good, and consider what that word good means,
then you will not have far to seek before you find what worship
means, and how you can worship him in spirit and in truth.

For if God be good, worshipping him must mean praising and admiring
him--adoring him, as we call it--for being good.

And nothing more?

Certainly much more. Also to ask him to make us good. That, too,
must be a part of worshipping a good God. For the very property of
goodness is, that it wishes to make others good. And if God be good,
he must wish to make us good also.

To adore God, then, for his goodness, and to pray to him to make us
good, is the sum and substance of all wholesome worship.

And for that purpose a man may come to church, and worship God in
spirit and in truth, though he be dissatisfied with himself, and
ashamed of himself; and knows that he is wrong in many things:-
provided always that he wishes to be set right, and made good.

For he may come saying, 'O God, thou art good, and I am bad; and for
that very reason I come. I come to be made good. I admire thy
goodness, and I long to copy it; but I cannot unless thou help me.
Purge me; make me clean. Cleanse thou me from my secret faults, and
give me truth in the inward parts. Do what thou wilt with me. Train
me as thou wilt. Punish me if it be necessary. Only make me good.'