Reverse Entropy and a Theology of Worship

It seems to me that the basic tenant of Biblical theology is that God is three and one. I feel a little shaky making that sort of sweeping statement about a doctrine that is not even directly stated in the Scriptures. However, I think that it is important. God makes it clear in the Old Testament that he is one, and that he alone should be obeyed and worshipped. Christ then follows up this teaching by continually talking about he is in the Father and the Father is in him. Those statements are concentrated in Johannine passages, but I think that they are important. Jesus further teaches that we are to be one with the Father and the Son, and that the Spirit lives in us if we remain in Christ. In general, the scope of scripture tends to deal with "withness." God walked with man in the garden, and now he has redeemed us so that we can sit with him in glory. Everything is centered around that community. It is a sort of reverse entropy. While our physical world disperses and spreads and disapates, God is working to make us all one in him. He is drawing all men to him so that in eternity there will be one people in one kingdom with one God.
I think that this plays a lot into worship. Worship I believe is God's way of trying to form that oneness. In fact, everything we do is to work towards that oneness. However, as I have been looking at worship a lot lately, I see it as important. It is sort of corny, but I see three "S's" of worship. Submission, sacrifice, and synagogue-ing.
Worship seems to be first and foremost about submission. If you think about it, whenever you meet with someone, there is some level of submission. If I call a friend and ask him if we can meet, he has to submit to my request. When we talk, if I start in on the weather, he has to submit to my topic and reply. He can refuse to, and switch to sports, but then I have to submit. If I ignore him and talk about school, and so on, we will spend all this time together with no communication or communication. We will be two people making random, unrelated statements. When we worship, we are submitting. We are saying, "God you are above us, so we are going to give up our own desires and interests to focus on you." While we debate how much Scripture has to do with the way we worship and battle hermeneutics, no Christian can help but admit that scripture and submission to it is the foundation of worship. We can sit and sing songs and have no preaching, but even the songs are based on God's word. If they are not, we have ceased to even do something Christian. Few would disagree that the teaching of the word, and the subsquent underlying urging to submit to it, is essential in some way in service. We come together to say, "I give up. I want God's way!" Otherwise, we would want God to come to our house and worship us.
Related to such submission is sacrifice. When we worship we give up our own way, and let God have his way. You can see it throughout Scripture. Note the sacrifice in all of these examples (and the submission):
-Cain and Able. Cain offers up something that God doesn't like, and God tells him that he has to give up to God what God wants in the way God wants, not what Cain wants.
-Abraham and Isaac, the first mention of the word worship in the Bible. God wants Abraham to do what he is told and give up his only son.
-Leviticus and its regulations deal with actual sacrifices. God makes it clear that no one is to come "empty handed." The sacrfices must be what he wants in the way he wants it.
-David refuses to sacrifice something that cost him nothing. He also refers in the Psalms to the sacrifice of praise.
-Ezra and Nehmiah seem to go crazy about giving up what we want to properly worship God. They are calling for divorces left and right so that the people can be pure before God.
-Paul calls our everday life our worship. That life is about sacrificing the way of the flesh for God's way.
Finally, we gather together, or synagogue. Paul actually uses that word to refer to meeting together. In doing this we are literally, verbally, led together. We come together so that Christ's body can be one. In Heaven, that worship will culminate in a great heavenly host full of all kinds of men and women.
What I am trying to say is this. God wants us to be one with him the way the Father, Son, and Spirit are one. This oneness only occurs when individuality, in a sense, goes away. We can't have it God's way and our way. There would be two sets of wills and purpose. Thus he asks us to come and lay it out on the line. We show that we submit to him and that we will sacrifice us to be like him. When that happens, we gain a mutual understanding with one another and with God. In that place we are one again with the Father.
We spend so much time trying to argue about the way we worship. In the end I think that we should use these criteria. When we worship we submit to God. In so doing, we have to sacrifice what we want for what he desires. Our time needs to reflect that we are spending time together and with him. There is a sense of mutuality. We see all of this best in the Lord's Supper. We submit to Christ's request to meet and remember him. We sacrifice our desires by renewing the covenant, and we reflect on God's sacrifice. It is a time to be "led together" into the presence of God. We communion with him.
I don't know if any of this makes sense. What I am trying to say is that our worship is about "what am I giving up" not "what am I getting." It is a fundamentaly opposite idea to American understanding of everything, but it is part of God's universal plan to bring all men into one body with him.