rich

Here's an excerpt from the Rob Bell nooma film Rich:



Rob runs through the numbers most of us have heard so many times we have become numb to them:

• approximately 1 billion people in the World do NOT have clean water
• the same number of people live on less than $1 per day.
• To provide basic food, water, health, etc for the WHOLE ENTIRE POPUALATION OF THE WORLD it would only take $20 billion dollars.

Then right at the end of the clip he makes this statement: "...this is how much the people in the US ALONE spend on ICE CREAM each year."

I know we as a family went mini-golfing on Friday night and then to Dairy Queen. The purpose isn't to guilt us into giving...

• although guilt does work on some people :-)
• but to motivate us to think about all our actions

I'm getting a little sick and tired of Christians...

• who ignore environmenal issues;
• who are not concerned for social justice in our world;
• who fail to see sin as anything more than personal sin... ignoring systemic issues;
• who will give to world relief issues but ignore the poor among us;
• who do not wrestle with what it means to be Christians in a holistic sense.

This post maybe a bit of a rant... but isn't it about time we started living a little differently?