Worship doesn't trump obedience - 1 Samuel 11-15

In our modern Christian church today we have a dangerous mindset that thinks that as long as I am in "worship" whatever I am doing is okay with God. Today most Christians believe as long as they call it "worship" and they "feel like" they are worshiping it must worthy to God and okay with Him. Although the argument is really quite poor from an argument and debate point-of-view because it is solely based upon experience, it is also full of holes Biblically. In 1 Samuel 15 we have the story of Saul going to war and saving the best sheep and lambs of the enemy to use them for worship to God. His logic was that as long as he was going to worship that is all that mattered. Samuel came along, however, and straightened him out. His words in 15:21-23 are not only famous and often quoted, they are, today, often ignored: Sacrifice and worship does not trump obedience. We need to realize that God would prefer that we obey His word in our worship not worship the way we want and pick and choose what we obey His word. We are not to worship in a way that displeases God and it is displeasing to God to worship in disregard of obedience. Samuel was told to destroy all the enemies sheep and lambs. He wasn't to save some to worship God. God does not honor our worship simply because we call it worship. He wants us to worship because we are obedient not because we want our worship to cover our disobedience.