Irresistible Revolution

Shane Claiborne definitely called out a lot of people in his book and I'm glad he did it.  Not to say that I am anywhere close to his radical standards, I still believe that some things just had to brought to attention.  As a Catholic church-goer for my entire life, I feel that I have experienced the church as it is today, the one that Shane disapproves of greatly.  I have the same kind of view about these churches.  When I think about my church back home, I immediately think of hypocrites and fakes.  I strongly agree with his idea that the church has to be redefined and become what it is truly meant to be.  One of the facts that got me a little infuriated about churches was that they keep 85% of the offerings given to them for buildings and staff.  Claiborne mentions how this borders of embezzlement.  I personally do not believe going to church is even necessary for someone to be a good Christian.  Today, if you don't go to church, you are automatically assumed to be a bad person, while on the other hand church-goers are considered great people.  We shouldn't judge people just by whether they zone out at speaker every sunday or not.  Irresistible Revolution talks about making church have more action other than words.  Anyone can sit and listen and then go home and do nothing.  Church should be a place where acts of God happen regularly, just through kindness towards each other.  Though I truly believe that Claiborne's idea of giving up everything is just simply impossible for the average human, I also believe that the church can change for the better by listening to his words.  These predisposed assumptions of how Christians are good people can even scare away others by making them think they are not good enough.  I thought that Shane's story about the kid who only started to believe he could be a Christian when his youth minister cursed at a tire shows correctly how Christians are viewed.  We are all people and we all make mistakes and we should all give an effort to show that no one person is really less sinful than the next.