Consider the cost when Christians ignore Jesus commands to sell their possessions and give to the poor and instead choose to spend their resources on better comforts, larger homes, nicer cars, and more stuff. Consider the cost when these Christians gather in churches and choose to spend millions of dollars on nice buildings to drive up to, cushioned chairs to sit in, and endless programs to enjoy for themselves. Consider the cost for the starving multitudes who sit outside the gate of contemporary Christian affluence.

I want to be apart of something that can only be explained by the hand of God!

And while we stand with conviction and courage, we must live with compassion. Amid a world with massive social needs around us, ranging from desperate poverty and orphan crises and millions of girls being trafficked for sex, to the degradation of marriage and the abortion of babies, we need to speak and act with selfless love on all of these issues.

I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.

While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.

Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.

We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.