We must become relevant and reverent. Worship must become the meeting place between the eternal and the contemporary. We tend to love the altar so much that we refuse to set it on fire. Yet God comes in the flames. Our God is a consuming fire.

Each generation must build its own altar and then set it on fire. If you worship the wood, you will lose the fire. Perhaps the greatest tragedy of our time is that we have kept our pews and lost our children.

Throw everything into the fire of God, and you will be left with all you need.

from An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind