Modern worship often skips straight to the resolution, and Barrett thinks that disconnect is worth taking seriously. I’ve walked into a worship set thinking, ‘OK, I guess I’m supposed to feel this way,’ even though I don’t.” He’s aware of the irony in all of this — a successful worship leader critiquing the performance of worship. Barrett points to Jesus’s warnings about public religion — don’t make your fasting obvious, don’t show off when you pray, don’t perform your holiness. It requires honesty — songs about mystery, songs about doubt, songs that start in the tension and stay there rather than engineering their way to resolution.