This book addresses the spirituality of cultural creators, showing (I hope) that our immersion in the body of Christ is the heart and driving force of discipleship.
Worship is the “reservoir of imagination” that nurtures our love and longing so that our efforts to create culture are directed toward God and His kingdom.
If you feel passionate about pursuing justice, renewing culture, and fulfilling your calling to unleash the potential of all creation, you must invest in shaping your imagination.
We must worship well.
Because what you love is you.

You worship what you love.

--- From the preface

Discipleship, therefore, is a matter of desire and longing rather than of knowledge and faith.
Jesus' command to follow Him is a command to align our loves and desires with His.
It is a command to want what God wants, to desire what God desires, to yearn and long for God, and to earnestly seek a world where God is all in all.
This is a vision that can be summarized in the abbreviation “Kingdom of God.”

--- From Chapter 1, “You Are What You Love”

The rituals we repeat every day can be read as cultural practices, that is, as “the old days.”
If we wear this lens of the past, we will see the stadium in a completely different way, as a temple of nationalism and militarism.
If you look at college through a traditional lens, you begin to realize that the “ideology” and “message” of the university are often less important than the rituals of its clubs and college athletes.
When we start to think about the rituals that keep us glued to our smartphones all day, rather than just worrying about the content (we see), we will realize that the very form of that practice is full of a self-centered perspective that makes us the center of the universe.

--- From Chapter 2, “You May Not Love What You Think”

Discipleship is a kind of immigration, moving from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of the Son of God whom he loves (Col. 1:13).
In Christ we receive a heavenly passport.
Within His body we learn to live as “inhabitants” of that kingdom.
Moving to a new kingdom is not like teleporting to another territory.
You have to get used to a new way of life, learn a new language, and acquire new habits.
We must abandon the habit of competing kingdoms.
Christian worship is the process by which we are transformed into citizens of heaven, people of the coming kingdom.
--- From Chapter 3, “The Holy Spirit Meets You Where You Are”

Christian worship should tell us a story that inspires us to set sail on the ocean of the Triune God and to create in us a longing for a better country, a heavenly one, a country to come (Hebrews 11:16).
The "shalom" envisioned by the Bible—a world where the Lamb is our light, a world where swords are beaten into plowshares, a world where everyone enjoys abundance, a world where people from every tribe, language, and nation sing the same praise, a world where justice flows like water and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream—is a vision that must be reenacted in Christian worship.
This prospect will captivate us.
Not simply because we “know” that this is what God wants, but because the visible practice of Christian worship paints that vision, for example, through the metaphors of biblical stories, the poetry of the Psalms, the rhythm of hymns and choirs, the tangible sacramental elements of bread and wine, and the images painted on stained glass.
All of this influences our imagination and teaches us to want things.

--- From Chapter 4, “What Story Are You In?”

The formative rituals of the family are not simply “private” practices; they have public implications.
Because, like the formation of a community or worship, the formation of a family also ends with sending.
We are not trying to create a “pure” family where we can retreat and hide to protect ourselves from a vast and evil world.
This attitude can only diminish the mission of “go.”
Instead, we want to be intentional about the formative rhythms of the family, and in so doing, let the family become another space of reorientation that shapes us and sends us out into the world to fulfill the cultural mandate and the countercommission, to live as image-bearers of God for and with our neighbors.

--- From Chapter 5, “Guard Your Heart”

Therefore, if education is to be formative, more specifically, if it is to form students in the Christian faith, it must first form those who form them.
If we, as educators, wish to participate in the classical educational project of educating the whole person and training students to love the truth, goodness, and beauty revealed in Christ, we must first be reshaped and transformed.
For example, education reform starts with us.

--- From Chapter 6, “Teach Your Children Well”

If you are what you love and you create what you desire, then to be a faithful creator we must pay attention to how our desires are formed.
We must take good care of our unconscious, the repository of our dominant stories.
Be careful what you worship.
That will determine what you want, and therefore what you create, and how you work.

--- From Chapter 7, “You Create What You Want”