Cape Town

I'm in the middle of a book called, "The Hole in Our Gospel" and came to a part that I had to share.  The chapter was written about this town in South Africa called "Cape Town".

Here's a short clip:
"Cape Town is one of the few places in the world where the worst imaginable poverty and the most opulent wealth live together, sometimes just 50 yards apart.  The "haves" live in gated communities adorned with security cameras.  The "have-nots" peer from their tin huts as Mercedes and BMW's from another world pass them by.  How can the rich and the middle class live like this, forced to see the stark contrast between themselves and the desperately poor every single day?  They do exactly what you and I do:  they ignore them."

It's easy for us to ignore the world we live in.  We don't see it every day, we aren't face to face with the child who will die tomorrow, we haven't lost a family member to AIDS.  But whether we're face to face with this stuff, or in "another world", to do nothing is to blatantly ignore the people that God has called us to help.