hunger

I'm sitting with a full belly thinking about how disgusting it is that some like me have so much food and so many are starving. So I just read bits and bobs of a book called "what to say to a hungry world?". It really got me thinking alot and made me quite disgusted. Shane Claiborne also talks a bit about it in his book Irresistible Revolution. These 2 books both talk about how if everyone shared everything everything would have enough. So true. We're far from the picture of this communal living style we see in the book of Acts. He also says something quite brash so brace yourselves...

"If a child starves whilst a Christian has more than enough food, than the Christian is guilty of murder."

 Wow. Ok just calm down. I'm not sure if I would have as extreme of a perspective as Claiborne, but I love this in that in really got me thinking. So much so that now I'm just really reflecting on what actions I can take against hunger and poverty. Anyway.

scandalous grace

"But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus’ love. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, and a few years later, Lazarus died again. Jesus healed the sick, but eventually caught some other disease. He fed the ten thousands, and the next day they were hungry again. But we remember his love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers."

Just thought I'd share one of many fantastic quotes found in the book Irresistible Revolution (by Shane Claiborne). It's a must read, full of insight on how far the church is from what it's supposed to be, and in it the author inspires with his experience in raw, organic church communities, and stories of the power of grace. In fact, the grace Christ showed to the rejects, losers, murderers, thieves, etc is to such an extreme that it is said to be scandalous, which I love. Anyway. I could go on and on about this book. But read it.