Sickening.

The Irresistible Revolution. READ IT.
I'm only 1/2 of the way through it, but it has already convicted me as well as bring me great joy. I'm so sick of the way people complain about the Church or Christians but then do nothing about it. I'm so sick of people who hoard all of their stuff and never truly meet the poor.
I'm sick of me.

Sure, I've done a homeless outreach through Greenville. I've done a charity concert.
But when all of that is said and done -- I own more than one coat. I own more than one pair of shoes. I can eat whenever I want. I dine at restaurants. I buy more clothes when I don't need them.
For what reason? Selfishness? Greed?
Stupidity.

"I'm convinced that God did not mess up and make too many people and not enough stuff. Poverty was created not by God but by you and me, because we have not learned to love our neighbors as ourselves. " - Shane Claiborne

Take a look at the writings of the early Christians: "When someone strips a man of his clothes, we call him a thief. And one who might clothe the naked and does not - should not he be given the same name? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat in your wardrobe belongs to the naked; the shoes you let rot belong to the barefoot; the money in your vaults belongs to the destitute."
What has Christianity become?
Look at yourself.

I'm not fed up with the Church to the point where I want to leave it. I'm fed up with the Church to the point where I want to fix it. We need to become the Church. Church shouldn't be the building we go to on Sundays or Wednesdays. It should be the building where The Church, The Bride of Christ, meets for fellowship. The Church should be out on the streets. The Church should be in the homes of the broken and the needy.