What can anyone change in 400 words? In a world where poverty, starvation, war, racism and thousands of other evils are at work, where do you go with 400 words?I believe that we, as "Christians," have lost sight of what Christ intended our lives to be and the purpose and faith He gave His life to teach us. As long as we give our 39 cents a day and make it to church on Wednesday and Sunday, we're all good...the American way...the new "Christianity." Whatever happened to the church of Acts where people would sell all they had and give to the poor and join a body of thousands of people, living a life of prayer, community and servanthood?We now sit, 2,000 years later, in our comfortable homes and Lexuses and mega-church youth groups watching the rest of the world rot away and starve to death. Where is Christ in our watered down, self-serving hybrid of faith and hypocrisy...the new "Christianity"? God exists to pay our mortgages and heal our families, but, when it comes time to sacrifice something of our own, we look away. We're too concerned with church attendance and having the biggest building in town to see we're wasting our days and God's money for our own comfort and well-being. The answer to our world's issues isn't charity drives and new taxes and Republican parties...but, rather, a complete renewal of thinking. Loving people as you would want to be loved, clothing the cold, feeding the hungry and housing the homeless - not at God's expense but our own - giving all we have in order to shine the light of Christ and live a life that counts.Somewhere along the way, we decided that being a Christian wasn't a life of serving but a life of being served. I can't change anything with 400 words...but you can change the world. God is real and waiting for a few real Christians to step up and let Him work through them the way He worked through the disciples. But it will cost everything. The best use of 400 words I can think of is to raise a lot of questions in everyone's heart who reads this and let God answer them. I ask you this: Will we still turn from God Himself? this is no longer YOUR life...so stop living like it is. God have mercy on us all.- Tim McTague, Underoath