'...our problem is not that we are dissatisfied, but that we are too easily satisfied. We are easily satisfied with an externalistic and episodic Christianity that lives most fully on Sunday morning. We are easily satisfied with an approach to theological knowledge and biblical literacy that does not reshape and redefine how we live. We are easily satisfied with marriages that are more marital detente than they are pictures of one-flesh unity. We are easily satisfied with raising children who learn to jump through our behavioral hoops, but don't really have hearts for God. We are easily satisfied having casual relationships with neighbours who live in darkness and desperately need to see the Light of Life. We are all too content to lower our standards enough to participate in entertainment that is increasingly perverse in its depiction of life.
We can actually get to the place, in our busyness and selfishness, where we just don't care anymore. We walk each day through a terribly broken world that no longer moves us, whose cries we no longer hear.'
Paul David Tripp, Broken-Down House, p.197.
