The problem trying to understand the NT church

After reading many books on the church, worship, and downloading many, many internet studies and sermons, I find it interesting how so many cherry-pick scriptures and arrange them to elaborate their own church cultures and traditions.

This reading into Scriptures our culture and tradition seems to be pervasive even among acknowledged biblical scholars and really good and effective preachers. Note the acknowledgment by a very good and famous present day church scholar:

The sheer diversity of the current options not only contributes to the sense of unrest and divisiveness in many local churches but leads to confident assertions that all the biblical evidence supports those views and those alone. . . . we unwittingly read our ideas and experiences of worship back into Scripture.

~ Don Carson, Worship by the Book, 13