I can honestly say I've never thought about it in that way before. All I know is that in my experience, a part of worship, a very big part, is all about seeking God. If we (being our worship team here at church)ourselves aren't fully expecting an encounter with God ourselves how could we lead others to him.
But I guess all of that is based on meeting with God and "encountering" (for lack of a better word) Him being a important part of a corporate worship service. But as far as it being selfish, I don't think it is at all. I think God wants us to seek him.
Deuteronomy 4:29-31 NKJV) "But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
2 Chronicles 7:14-15 NKJV) "if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land
And that may be using those out of context, but I'm 16 and I'm not even going to pretend like i really know what im talking about.
But like I said before, I've never really thought about whether or not that should be a part of corporate worship, you bring up in interesting topic.
Also, I may have badly misinterpreted what you typed and if so just forget about all that..
