I believe that this could very well be looked back on as the sin of our generation...I believe that our children and their children, 40 or 50 years from now, are going to ask me, what did you do while 40 million children became orphans in Africa?
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the moral responsibility of current generations regarding humanitarian crises.
Richard Stearns reflects on the moral obligation that the present generation has towards the suffering and plight of orphans in Africa. He posits that future generations will hold us accountable for our actions or inactions during a significant humanitarian crisis, urging us to take responsibility and action to prevent such tragedies.
In practice
In a speech about global poverty, one might reference this quote to emphasize the importance of aiding those in need.
Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.
Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play _x000D_ And in one word, just nothing.
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized by the love of money and materialism. The homage paid to affluence becomes a burden that saps our energy as well as our love for God and other people...Like Jesus and Paul, we can learn to be content with what we have, living modestly in order that we may give liberally to the work of the kingdom and to meet the needs of others.
A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.
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