Brian McLaren said it so well - and so much better than I could have said it.
"We need an ecclesiology that acknowledges latent periods without guilt. We are prone to guilt-tripping ourselves and others even though guilt trips take us nowhere but backward. For example, we glorify extraordinary revival experiences so as to feel like failures during ordinary times, not realizing that if last years extraordinary revival experience continues for more than a few weeks, it becomes the new ordinary experience. If last weeks worship was awe inspiring, this weeks must at least equal it in emotional force’ otherwise, someone is sure to tell us we are backsliding and will threaten to go down the street “where God is really moving.” The result in some churches is an ever-inflating hype, which might seem exciting from the outside, but from the inside is pressured, desperate, and pathetic.
The fact is, down times are important for many reasons, not the least of which is that without them there are not up times. All of life runs with times and seasons, ebbs and flows, work and rest, expansion and consolidation, death and birth. This is normal; it is also biblical, and our ecclesiology should acknowledge it.”

OK.... I realize that this isn't exciting news. In fact it is a little bit drab, boring , and hmmmm sanitary... but I really believe it a healthy view in the long run.

Like the example that I gave on sunday at youth group... some fires burn a long time slow and hot, and some fires are explosive, but then go out immediately in a cloud of smoke. I know which one I want to be.