Did you know that the last statistics in regards to the percentage of money that goes to foreign missions and the truly poor in the world, that is of ‘christian’ givings in the so called church in America, is only 3% of the church givings leaves the United States.  Is this shocking to you?  Let’s look at a passage of Scripture and apply it to ourselves and our statistic above.  Now I know that the passage below is toward the people of Jerusalem, but this is not an excuse to not apply God’s Word and His holiness to our lives and our present realities within our failing ‘christian’ culture.  It is good for us not only to understand and know the true historical context, but it is better for us to examine ourselves, as individuals, in regards to our own guiltiness and repent.    

“Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.  As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.  Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.”

Ezekiel 16:47-49