Irresistible Revolution, part 2

A few weeks ago, I mentioned re-reading Shane Claiborne's Irresistible Revolution, and put in a quote about finding your Calcutta. Here's another excerpt about the group he's a part of, contrasted with...most of our lives:

"We have always called ourselves a tax-exempt 501c3 antiprofit organization. We wrestle to free ourselves from macrocharity and distant acts of charity that serve to legitimize apathetic lifestyles of good intentions but rob us of the gift of community. We visit rich people and have them visit us. We preach, prophesy, and dream together about how to awaken the church from her violent slumber. Sometimes we speak to change the world; other times we speak to keep the world from changing us. We are about ending poverty, not simply managing it. We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it."

That little paragraph has more oh-crap-this-is-MY-problem in it than almost anything I've ever read: macrocharity, distant, legitimize, and above all, "violent slumber."

Are we sleeping? What if we came fully awake, fully alive?