AC 10436 - Worship and the Church

AC 10436 [2, 3]

Be it known that the church is not the church
from external worship,
but from internal worship;
for external worship is of the body,
but internal worship is of the soul.
Consequently external worship without internal
is of the outward act only,
thus is worship without life from the Divine.
Through the interior things of worship
the person of the church
communicates with the heavens,
to which the external serves as a plane
upon which the interior things may subsist,
as a house upon its foundations;
and when it so subsists it is complete and firm,
and the whole person is directed by the Divine.

. . . the end of all worship
is communication with heaven,
and thereby the conjunction of the Lord with a person.