Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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Let's Help Myanmar!!
Myanmar got blasted with a cyclone about a week and a half ago and it has left thousands of people dead, homeless, and without anything. Guys, it's pretty horrible. Our minds can't really even conceive what has taken place. We watch the news and get sad for a brief moment and then grab another chip and sip more coke. It's not like we totally don't care; we just can't even fathom it.
One of the ways we can help is by giving money and resources. Here is a link where you can help:
Myanmar as a country makes about $2,600/yr (just over $200/mo per person). That isn't very much. Some of us spend that kind of money on coffee and and snacks in a given month. I don't want to put anyone on a guilt trip but we have so, so much. Charity and I probably would fall in the lover 20 percentile in American income and we still have lots left over to give. We can make adjustments and give more.
I want to be a Christian who gives up "things" in my life to better serve Christ. When I confess that I'm willing to sacrifice my life unto Jesus but then I don't sacrifice the things in my life, it makes a huge statement. The things in my life actually are the ingredients that make my life. I want to give it away as Christ modeled. Greg Boyd mentioend this week that, "if the disciples who sacrificed their very lives for the Gospel were warned about becoming hypocrites and not sacrificing, how much more the American church?" We haven't really had to sacrifice anything in our life. . . this is my personal journey. . . welcome to my misery if you're in the same boat. :)
Don't be guilted, but give to Myanmar because the Lord lays it on your heart.
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