Elder McConkie says, "Perfect worship is emulation. We honor those whom we imitate. The most perfect way to worship Jehovah is to be holy as He is holy. It's to be pure as Christ is pure. It's to do the things that enable us to become like the Father and the course is one of obedience."
So Elder McConkie says worship is imitation. When you start to think about it that way, what we call a worship service in the Church, you go to a building, you have somebody get up and preach a sermon, which is something Jesus did. When we have the most important part of our worship service, which all of us have thought a lot about in the last year, we have a person, a young man, get up, and break bread, and bless water, and then distribute it to everybody. Those are all things that Jesus did.
dand give it to people. So literally, we're asking a priest, a teacher and a deacon to act like Jesus for five minutes, and that'll help you become more like Jesus. We, in taking the sacrament also imitate Jesus. He took the sacrament to. That worship as imitation.
So it's like when we go to church, the reason why the sacrament is such a big deal is because for those four or five minutes, we're literally just setting everything down, turn off your phone, act like Jesus, and literally imitate actions that He did down here on earth. The idea being that that spreads to our entire life, but when Jesus is saying, "I want you to worship Me," now He starts to sort of take the lens off Himself and put it back onto us.
From a Follow Him Podcast about Doctrine and Covenants 93
