the church

Who is the church?  The church is  made up of the everyday people who are out loving and helping the poor, the orphans, the widows.  How can we think that any of us think that we are better than that man on the street corner?  How is it that the church is not reaching out its arms wide open to others (both near and far) in need?  Why are we stuck in our self-centered worlds?

I am in a state that has a massive amounts of mega-churches and churches here spend a ridiculous amount of money on their buildings and everything inside.  I have seen flat screens, skate parks, and starbucks inside of churches.  I am struggling with the idea that our money is not going to use in a way that it should.  It should be the church that is reaching out in a hurting world on a level that is far more extreme than is currently happening.  God is all around us.  People are hurting.  Where are we?