eucahrist

while i complain about low church attendance, our brothers in india rejoice that their pastors kept the faith while their churches were burnt to the ground with them inside.

while i sit at applebee's sipping an $8 drink, a woman in rwanda walks for 10 hours, from midnight to 10:00am to bring back water for her family. every. night.

i'm stressed out because i have a 45 minute commute to a job where i sit in an air-conditioned office with free coffee, soda, and clean water in the toilet.

ever 6 seconds a child under the age of five dies from dehydration.

i increase my standard of living at the expense of others' lives.

if only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.
1 cor 15:19

how can i claim to follow Christ if my life, my spending, my standard of living would be the same even if i did not [1]? even if God did not exist, i would be living this same life, because my life is good. comfortable. why? so i can be happy?

need exists because relationships do not. if i loved them, i would not buy new clothes while they freeze to death in a cardboard box.

2 solutions. ignore their cries. or deny self.

which is of Christ?

i hope i don't feel better just because i typed this.


//chris



[1] Francis Chan's latest three sermons have truly convicted me in this area.