I gave a talk at the “House of Prayer” in St. Augustine, Florida, last week. \u00a0 The audience, for the most part, seemed relatively well off socio-economically. \u00a0 I said billions of people in the Third World were either homeless, or living in cobbled together shacks with no running water, no electricity, little food, virtually no medicine… \u00a0 What’s more, 24,000 of these people starve to death every day. \u00a0 I said I didn’t know what the town of Nineveh was doing before Jonah walked through it, but I doubted it was worse than letting 24,000 people starve to death every day. \u00a0 And that’s exactly what we do as we continue on with our relatively “well off” lifestyles in America in the face of this worldwide abject poverty… \u00a0 The prayer group leader, Gary Gornick, then did a teaching he had planned for the evening. \u00a0 He said the talk would, indeed, dove tail with what I had said. \u00a0 Gornick said if someone has a proclivity to do “wicked things,” they have a strong tendency to \u00a0insulate themselves \u00a0with people of “like minds.” \u00a0 As a result, seldom — if ever — are you confronted. \u00a0 Extrapolated out, if I want to \u00a0remain unfettered by my \u00a0comfortable First World lifestyle in the face of all this horrendous Third World suffering, I’ll move into, say, a sub-development, church community, etc., of “like minded” people where stock portfolios, lawn care and Florida Gator football are the predominant topics of conversation. \u00a0 Not Third World poverty, and what \u00a0one is \u00a0trying to do to help end it. \u00a0 Note: \u00a0 Mr. Gornick said: \u00a0 “We’re going to be judged on what we do.” \u00a0 I said I \u00a0thought the Ninevites “sack cloth thing” wasn’t just about dressing down, but rather about turning from their sinful, gluttonous lifestyles. \u00a0 And doubting the Gap was going to come up with a “Sack Cloth Fashion Line,” wouldn’t it be about cutting back our lifestyle in America as well? \u00a0 Of course it would. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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