Thursday, June 20, 2013

A Letter to the North American Church

http://www.aholyexperience.com/2013/06/a-letter-to-the-north-american-church-because-it-is-time/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HolyExperience+%28Holy+Experience%29
From the heart of one of my most favorite writers, Ann Voskamp...

Dear North American Church,

After a Sunday morning in Africa, you don’t look the same to me.

You look hungry.

Hungrier than anything I’ve seen in Africa.

Because after I watched that Ugandan woman?

That one woman with no shoes and no husband and 7 kids, walk up to the front of the church and put this bag of beans into the basket as her love offering to God – my heart ached this raw conviction and

I could feel it with you, North American Church, what you really wanted:

You’re hungry to love like this. You are hungry for the uncomfortable. 

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