Is Your Church Apologizing for Acts of Worship?

As Christians we are called to worship. We have a God that has given us so much, the greatest of which is allowing his only son to be sacrificed for our sins. How can we do anything but worship him? I think that almost anyone who calls them self a Christian  would agree that worship is important.
While there are those that say they don't have to go to church for corporate worship (that's a whole different topic I won't dive into now) they still claim to worship our great God. What I have found, though, is that when it really comes down to it most people really don't have a grasp of what worship entails.
When most people hear the word worship almost all immediately think of the song service at church. How many times have you said, or heard someone else say, " The worship at church was great today. The sermon was a little long though. " People think that church consists of worship (the song service) then the rest of the service. As time has gone on many churches have recognized that this conception of worship is common and are more and more taking time to stress to people that worship is more than music.
At our church we take communion each week and each week it is made clear that this is a part of worship. A special time we set aside to remember the sacrifice Christ made for us and join together in worship and thanks.
Of course another part of almost every worship service is the message. This part of worship is a time of learning more about God's Word, the Bible. Through learning more about God and his eternal plan we are brought closer to Him and want to worship him even more.
The one area of a worship service, that even non-church goers know is included is offering. Offering is often over looked as worship but rather just a time for the church to get into your wallet. The sad part about this assumption is that those that think this way seem to be those who are leading the church. I'm not saying that they actually believe this in theory but they seem to think that those who are new to church think this.
From my experiences within the church, those that are rarely in church or maybe have never stepped foot in a church, understand that offering is a time of our worship. They expect it yet church leaders seem to try and move through offering as quick as possible and at times almost apologize for our worship in giving. We are given EVERYTHING by God and we worship and thank him through our offerings.
I thank God that I go to a church that takes time during each part of our service to explain why what we are doing is worship, including our offering time.  If something is not worship it shouldn't be a part of our service. Through this those that are regular church members and those new to the church understand and reminded why we do what we do - everything in gratitude to our God.
I once ministered at a church that started me thinking about churches lack of stressing that tithes and offerings are worship. The Bible commands that the tithe be brought into the house of the Lord.  Micah 3:10 (NLT) states "Bring all the tithe into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my temple. If you do says the Lord of Heavens armies, " I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won't have enough room to take it in!  Try it!  Put me to the test!" Yet the minister of this church actually mentioned several times that we needed to have attendance cards and visitor cards for people to fill out and turn in. The reason for this?  So people would have something to put in the offering plate and not be embarrassed! 
I began to see that this part of worship was being apologized for through this attitude and it carried over into the water downed messages that were being presented so "seekers" wouldn't be offended. The Bible is the Word of God and the only Truth. We should not apologize for ANY part of the Word or ANY part of our worship.
If we are worried about offending people by the Truth we have no right calling ourselves followers of Christ. We are commanded to worship and worship includes tithes and offerings. When we see a church start apologizing for this part of our worship it will, and does, affect the rest of our worship and the ministry of the Church.