The Triune God is not a distant god working through intermediaries - no - we receive “at His hands”. His giving and blessing is up close, personal and intimate.

We Christians are always prone to having the world shape us to live an unbalanced life, either over-adapting or under-adapting. Right now, to over-adapt will probably mean, the desire to have “contagious encouragement” churches. To under-adapt will probably mean we seek to emphasize sin lots and lots.

It is always possible to provide proof texts to support “positive” worship and getting people pumped, but seriously, can we really read the Bible and think that the Bible primarily wants us to get “pumped” in worship?