One of my favorite Christian authors is Shane Claiborne. His book, Irresistible Revolution, is my favorite of all his writings. I like Shane because he doesn't just speak and write about social justice, like so many, but he lives it every day. That's why his observations about fellow Christians are so essential to understanding God's will for all of us.
"I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor, but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the poor meet the rich, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end." (Irresistible Revolution, pp. 113-114)
"There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus..." (Luke 16:19-20)
"Resources, without relationships, are invariably wasted."
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