A reader asks,

"Also, is not false worship also being half hearted (in praying, praising, doing good, etc.)"

I thought this was a very good question, and the answer is worth expanding and broadcasting :)

Answer: It depends. Diverting the issue of 'worship' into 'what happens in a sunday service', into "prayer and praise" is part of the problem I'm trying to address. All too often prayer and praise is thought of as "worship", and the rest forgotten - which is why we have so many arguments about liturgy etc. We somehow think it's more important. But "worship" should be characterised as "doing honour to God".

The fact that we periodically perform a formal ritual to express ceremonial honour to God doesn't turn everything else into not-worship. Rather, the ritual should shape and inform the rest of life (and so it's very important: it is, truly, symbolic worship. Which is why the breaking of bread together in worship is so important - around one table we become one family, children and all). But the rest of life is where the real content of worship is found - where we 'live out' the ceremony. So, failing to "do good" is certainly something that is false worship.