"Of course, we do not use the word cool to describe true greatness. It is a small word. That's the point. It's cheap. And it's what millions of young people live for.
Who confronts them with urgency and tears?
Who pleads with them not to waste their lives?
Who takes them by the collar so to speak, and loves them enough to show them a life so radical and so real and so costly and Christ-saturated that they feel the e.m.p.t.i.n.e.s.s. and t.r.i.v.i.a.l.i.t.y. of their CD collection and their p.o.i.n.t.l.e.s.s. conversations about passing celebrities?
Who will waken what lies latent in their souls, untapped--a longing not to waste their lives?"

--johnpiper--

whoa...

Isaiah 58:6-11 "Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke,to let the oppressed[a] go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily;your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.'If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted,then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. And the LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong;and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
Footnotes:
Isaiah 58:6 Or bruised