justice revival

we found three babysitters so we can attend the justice revival. STOKED. i've been reading Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne and man, as expected, i'm being greatly challenged by it. sometimes i get hopeless, or am tempted to get hopeless, about the lax attitude (at best) towards social justice of the modern christian church. in fact i can't sit here in good conscience and say that i don't feel that the church actually commits quite a few social crimes against people (um hi, hating gay people) such things make me sick and sad and even at times embarrassed to be associated with the evangelical movement. i dislike that i feel that i have to convince people that i'm not a bigot when a person gets to know me and naturally it comes out that im a follower of Jesus. and while christianity has been the springboard for innumerable charities and social causes (red cross, salvation army, etc. etc.) i still feel angry and sad that, and this is the part i get up on my high horse i think, the church doesn't behave nicely. notice how i am putting myself into a position to determine the politics of people? really, this should be the job of Jesus, period and yet i don't feel we are taking that seriously. if we took the bible seriously poverty would be wiped out, orphanages wouldn't need to exist, every one would be part of a human family, LOVE WOULD REIGN in our hearts instead of power-lust. don't we get that God and injustice are morally opposed to one another?