Tullian Tchividjian on "Yearning for the other"

"They are desperately reaching not just upwards but backwards. They yearn for a day gone by when things seemed more constant and less shallow. They want to tap into the treasures of the past as they search for staying power that seems unattainable in the present. They are weary of the pressure to become, while they long for the privilege to be. Therefore, they want different music (not just words but style) and different people with their sights set on a different world. They long for someone to speak to them with authority about someone other than themselves and about a time other than their own. They are not as interested in what they can become as in who they are and where they came from, historically speaking." (Younger p. 128)