"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--