time to engage....

Check out engagehivaids.com, an iniviate to raise awareness of the plight of HIV/AIDS around the globe, with particular emphasis on Sub-Sahara Africa. One of the guys involved, Tre Sheppard, has recently started coming to our church (check out his band here). It clearly comes across that these guys are incredibly passionate about justice and driven to action surrounding this plight. It stirred me to thinking what am I passionate about? As a human being do I need to be passionate about anything and if so does it have to make a difference to the world around me?

I love that verse in James were it says that the true form of religeon is looking after the widows and orphans in distress. Its a call to real action in the community that the believers found themselves in.

Stirring rhetoric is exactly that - designed to provoke us to more. What difference does that make if we hear and nod our heads, then go home and forgot about what it was that stirred us up? All to often we fail to translate saying into doing. I think that is ok to a point because if we followed after everything that even slightly stirred us up, we would be burnt out shells. But should we not be stirred to something?

I'd love to hear what moves you.