The Whole Package

A passage in Psalm 51 says this:

You do not want a sacrifice, or I would give it;
You are not pleased with a burnt offering.
The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit.

David, thousands of years ago, understood the error of simply following tradition. People were expected to give animal sacrifices; that's just how things worked. God was never happy with the sacrifices, though. God was only interested in the one who brought the sacrifice.
Today Christians are expected to get up early every Sunday morning, put on their worn out mask, and go to Sunday School and a worship service. Not that Christian fellowship isn't important, but God is not pleased with our heartless rituals and mindless traditions. He only wants us...the real us, as broken as we may be. God is pleased only when we give ourselves to Him--all pain and heartache included.

And if all God wants is the real us, why should we expect anymore from eachother?