Have you ever been so stirred by injustice… that you’ve been compelled into taking action?

Tonight we heard from Saddleback pastor and author Kay Warren – how she felt that she couldn’t get to the end of her life and feel satisfied if she didn’t do anything to address the issue of HIV AIDS.

She said she reached a ‘fork in the road’ – after reading one day about HIV AIDS in a newspaper article.

She knew that she could either continue on in life and forget about the problem, or allow herself to be affected by it, learn more about it – and take action to do something about it.

Have you ever been stirred by an issue so strongly that it’s compelled you to take action?

• Maybe a trip overseas to a developing country opened your eyes to global poverty and caused you to take a career change when you got home
• Maybe homelessness in your own suburb or city stirred you to work in a soup kitchen, or help someone get off the streets
• Maybe discovering the number of orphans in the world caused you to adopt one
• Maybe you had a troubled upbringing and you became a counselor so that you could help people going through the same problems you went though

What’s the issue that, once discovered, could not be ignored?