Reverse worship: measuring God's love by obedience

The night's second main topic: a host describes measuring his relationship with God by where his obedience is at, calling it 'reverse worship' — worshiping sin more than the Jesus who gave grace for it. He confesses that one slip-up (not listening to worship music on the drive, an argument where his mouth ran) makes him feel the day is shot even though he knows 'his mercies are new every morning.' A co-host responds that God's mercy runs against our self-deprecation: we insist on sitting in guilt to prove the sin's weight, treating God's grace as insufficient.