These are not my words. What does this mean for me? What does this mean for you? What does this mean for our church or your church?

"I want a passion. I want something to throw myself into. I don't want to have a platform before I can do ministry. I want that fire that Jeremiah speaks of. I want to sear people with my life. I want a ministry that consumes my every thought and action. I want to know the infinite joy of serving my Creator. I want to serve with an unyielding fury. I want to love the Father with such reckless abandon that it borders on insanity. I want to find out what it's like to live unselfishly. I want to know what it means to love unselfishly. I want to know and love the people I piously give money to so I can assuage my guilt. I want to experience the love Christ has for his pauper population. I want to awaken the "sleeping giant" of the American church. I want to, for once, be proud of the generosity and activism of my church. I want my church to be humbled by how their brothers with nothing sacrifice family, job, and wealth for the same God. Mostly, I just want my church to feel His passion for the lost sheep of this world.

I want a life of discomfort. I want a life devoid of Ikea, Target and Wal-Mart. I want to know persecution. I want to see him in pain and suffering. I want to understand the joy of a monastic life of deprivation. I want to see a community that gives and gives and gives. I want to be a part of a community where complacency is treated the same way adultery is. I want to be a part of a community whose passion for Love is visible to a blind man, audible to a deaf man, gives words to the muted, and burns those who can't feel. I want a community that has no political, social or religious agenda. I want a community whose motive for love is Love. I want to live a life that looks like a revolution but inspires reformation.

What we need are men who will challenge the establishment. What we need are men who won't pull their punches. We need men whose leadership inspires vision and dreams of bigger and better things for our church. We need men whose love for God and adherence to his Word is their foremost thought. We need men whose tolerance is guided by God's Word and not by culture and its words. We need men governed by humility and grace. We need men who speak the truth with fire to ignite passion and burn away tradition. We need men who can wake up our church and its comfort-induced coma. We need men who at the cost of their pastorates, positions, and pride speak truth boldly and loudly. We need men who have been abused, used, and discarded by their Churches. We need men who were martyred by their church in the name of tradition and tolerance. Those men know the pain and sacrifice of speaking truth. We need a reformation of leadership in our Church. We need leadership that breaks us out of our ethnocentric faith. We need leaders whose budgets are so weighted on sending and supporting those that go, that the church lives "paycheck to paycheck". We need leaders who, in model of the ministry of Christ, get dirty with the homeless, prostitutes, prisoners and deviants of society. We need leaders who are never comfortable with the status quo. We need leaders whose words only serve as a reminder of their actions.

It's time for a change. It's time for the generation gap to be closed. It's time for the young and old to dream dreams and cast vision together. It's time to awaken the giant of the American church. It's time to stop allowing ourselves to medicate our guilt by paying lip service to the poor, tired, homeless, and degenerates. It's time to stop just throwing money at our brothers and sisters in China, North Korea, Laos, Cambodia, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. It's time to go after governments that viscously beat and persecute our brothers and sisters. It's time to use our money and resources to aid our brothers and sisters who are battling day in and day out. It's time to use our political clout to free our brothers and sisters in chains.

We've consumed so much spiritual and cultural junk food that we have became morbidly obese and non-functional. It's time for some massive weight loss. Exercise and proper eating habits will help, but we need some drastic liposuction. We need to beat our body. We need to make the body work for us again. It's time for us to root out leaders who have accepted complacency and the status quo for the sake of job security.

It's time stop being lukewarm.
It's time for a change.
If it doesn't happen now, it won't at all."

Thank you, whoever wrote this.