Below is a follow up post to Gayla’s article, Be Angry, But Do Not Sin. To read the original article click here.

1. There are 100 million street children – 60 million living in Latin America. What is the church doing?

2. 1.2 million children are victims of sex trafficking.  I hear more celebrities talking about what they are doing than I do the church. Jesus’ ministry had an intentional focus on children and he showed they often understood him better than adults.

3. Statistics show Christians have the resources to eradicate poverty worldwide. So what part of the Bible are we not reading? Jesus talks about the poor over and over and over. Read Matthew 25 over and over and over.

4.  Racism, sexim an elitism continue to exist. In the church. Let’s remember that Jesus directed his admonishments to the those that considered themselves the religious leaders at that time. He would be addressing those same issues with church today.

5. The drug war in Mexico is fueled by so many things;  including the U.S. consumption of  drugs and a total disregard for human life by the cartels.

6. Some American Christians have adhered to an isolationist theology forgetting that God doesn’t see borders. Where in the Bible does it say we can sort by self? I get really angry when I’m told that ‘we need to help our own’. What does that mean anyway? (please reread the ‘Love thy neighbor’ passage)

7. Every Sunday we sings songs of worship saying things like, “I will follow him wherever he leads me.” Will we? It makes me angry that we talk out of both sides of our mouths.

8. Someone actually told me that our homes are a ‘standard house building kit’ that we can push off onto another group if they canceled. After 30 years if that is how we are perceived, then I’m in the wrong ministry.

9. Instead of trusting God, we are living in a paralyzing fear that is affecting our ability to serve God and follow Him wherever He leads.

10. We are spiritual pigs asking what the church can do for us instead of what can we do for the church.

11. We are selective in who we choose to love. Thank goodness Jesus doesn’t do that. “And they will know we are Christians by our love, by our love, and they will know we are Christians by our love.”