If making church “exciting” is the only way to get some people to go then the answer is yes.
I wrote the below words in 1969, but they really paraphrase those found in the first volume of A History of the Expansion of Christianity by Kenneth Scott Lattourette, who was a Linfield graduate. The worship portion provides me an opportunity to pray to or talk about the Lord. When the sermon comes I listen for pieces that can be of value next week. I can’t appreciate loud and vigorous worship services, because then I tend to just listen.
“The institution of the Christian Church was designed to act as an outpost of heaven within the finite, fallen world. Christian travelers could secure an anchor in Jesus’ spiritual dimension with praise, prayer, and wisdom as they climbed with a fragile, broken soul through a perishing creation into eternity. Yet all Christian institutions are subject to failing as human pride naturally aligns with the heritage of fallen humanity.”