Conformed or Transformed
There should be a level of apprehension when you go to church. Why? Because God’s intention is that meeting him in corporate worship should do something radical in your life. Worship is not meant to be a comfortable experience. Worship, whether corporate or individual, should leave you a changed person.
This is what Paul is getting at in Romans 12:2. Conformity with the world, with regard to worship, means that you go to church for the benefit you will receive. Transformation means that you engage in worship anticipating that the way you think and the things that you value will be changed. This is challenging, but not necessarily comfortable.
Take some time to ask God to continue the process of transformation in your life. He did not save you so that you could fit in and be comfortable. He saved you so that you would become more like Christ everyday. Given the people that you and I are, this means that worship should be a mixture of apprehension and anticipation of being transformed for the glory of God..
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:2