I'm all for righteous anger and I believe the Church has become comfortable in their bubble, allowing the world to suffer around them without getting involved. BUT... I'm more than just a little tired of little Jesuses trying to appear relevant by using the worst word they can think of. If it's refuse, fine... call it sh*t. If it needs to be banished, then to hell with it... but what value or relevance does f**k have to do with us reaching out to a lost and dieing world?

C'mon kids... lets step it up a notch.

Unitarians seem to have a corner on the social justice market - by several miles. Evening watching a movie - watching a movie! - is a big step for many congregations.

Is there some disconnect between morals and ethics in churches? One needn't look far to find a solipsistic sermon on the sin of you and the person next to you, but what if inaction and apathy are sins? Is it the conservative politics of moral choice that precludes ethical actions?

do more people read his article with this title or with the title, "Human trafficking is really bad!" for that matter, is it an article on CMS?

I'm glad you wrote about this topic and it's relation to church marketing. It's a grave injustice that evangelical churches widely ignore. We emphasize a personal relationship with Christ and a holy lifestyle, but we equate holiness with not engaging in sins. We leave out the importance of loving our neighbors, the second greatest command - and Jesus made it clear that anyone in need is our neighbor. The Golden Rule begs the question: if we were slaves, what would we want the church to do for us? James says that knowing the good we should do, and failing to do it, is sin.

I also think our collective inactions is terrible marketing. Who wants to be a part of an organization that ignores the greatest problems of our generation? Many people do want to make a difference, but they don't think of the church as the way to do good. If we started doing good, I believe our churches would be more attractive to outsiders.

Yes, churches need to be righteously angry of social injustices.

This is a topic that churches in America - at least the evangelical wings - has been way to quiet about. Seems like we get so focused on the "big two" - abortion and gay marriage - that we forget what T.D. Jakes calls a "Bible full of other issues" - social justice, poverty and the environment. I like Rick Warren's "whole life" position. We have to care about everything Jesus cares about.

We don't need to get angry - we need to wake up. We are much like the 'sleeping beauty' in this story.

The church is absolutely too complacent and too accepting of the social injustices of today. Too long have we just stood by idly and let these tragedies happen right under our noses and on our doorsteps.

If God had a righteous anger, then aren’t we supposed to be like Him? The church is too afraid of what others will think of it, like the new kid on the playground, to do anything! We need to stop standing around and waiting for other people to do what God has called US to do. Stop being some PUNKS and stand UP for what angers God!

The message that sends is that we care about the people that God cares about. If we get involved it says that not only do we watch out for our own, but we take the position that Christ took and we defend those who can’t defend themselves.

The topic of anger has always been a dichotomy to me. Jesus' anger was directed at the Pharisees, who spent their lives trying to put the law on everyone else, and when they realized they couldn't keep it themselves, they added to it so they would appear righteous.

God's law is love. He admonishes us to love our enemies, be angry, but in our anger not to sin and not to let the sun go down on our anger. Anger, although not a sin in itself, is such a misused and misunderstood word I think. I've been angriest at those Christians who gather together to picket abortion clinics and gay rights parades. Christians aren't angry enough? I do understand that we are talking about human trafficking here. And it is a horrible, horrible sin. So is the pastor who lures the young girl to his office and rapes her. So is the priest who abuses the young boy and the youth pastor who sneaks off into the woods with young girls and then comes home to repeat this over and over. Or the misguided missionaries that go out into the world without understanding of the true gospel who want to be God for the poor, onl y to exploit them and let them down? And watch while their children are raped by men and don't do anything because they want to save the people. I personally know people who have experienced these things.

The world is broken. It amazes me sometimes as I look around. Everything is in some stage of disease or another, from human life to plant life. Nothing is as it should be. Everything is dying. How can we be so surprised by these things, we were told about this in the Bible. God gives us righteous anger, but I really think our heart response should be more of a sorrow, a deep, deep sorrow that there is not a word for. Anger is to spur us to prayer and to whatever God leads us to do, but I don't think we go with purity of intention until we take the logs out of our own eyes first and go with the understanding that we are all sinners, without God and the Holy Spirit we would be capable of doing these very same things about which we are angry.

My question is this: How much faith am I supposed to have when it comes to the brokenness of the world? I do believe that God has everything under control, nothing escapes his notice, he makes beauty out of ashes. But does this mean that I am supposed to look for the the "causes" in the world that will make me angry and then go out and preach that, or am I supposed to look to the redeemer and go out and p reach that God has already made things right, that there is a bigger picture here, and that prayer accomplishes much? And that God experienced every sin committed by every man through the body of his son so that we can be totally forgiven and released from bondage?

And what about Moses? He went up the mountain into the mist, got the ten commandments, came back down and found that the people had given up on him and made a golden calf to worship. Moses got mad and smashed the tablets and had to go back up. God was not happy about that. Didn't Moses have cause to be mad? I think so. But God didn't. And how happy was Jesus when Peter lopped of the ear of the soldier that wanted to kill him? He was trying to protect Jesus, shouldn't he have been mad? How mad are we to be? What are we to be mad at? Where does forgiveness come into all of this and how do we get there in a healthy way? Or are we to see the injustices, be moved by the Holy Spirit to act according to HIS will, rather than our own need to feel like we can "help." I don't know, but it certainly is something that I think about a lot.

Hey, if it doesn't interrupt my playlist, my latte, or my children's lives why should I care about it?