The Micah Challenge

I came across this today, while reading a post on the God's Politics site. I'm still just looking into it, but I'm intrigued.

http://www.micahchallenge.org/

The Micah Call

This is a moment in history of unique potential, when the stated intentions of world leaders echo something of the mind of the Biblical prophets and the teachings of Jesus concerning the poor, and when we have the means to dramatically reduce poverty.

We commit ourselves, as followers of Jesus, to work together for the holistic transformation of our communities, to pursue justice, be passionate about kindness and to walk humbly with God.

We call on international and national decision-makers of both rich and poor nations, to fulfil their public promise to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and so halve absolute global poverty by 2015.

We call on Christians everywhere to be agents of hope for and with the poor, and to work with others to hold our national and global leaders accountable in securing a more just and merciful world.

Of course being the ornery person I am, on studying their website I'm immediately brought up against something that makes me question:

Latest prayer reflection
Friday March 2: What the heck is social justice? (a link that won't work after the next prayer reflection is put up, thanks guys!)

Now, I'm all about social justice. It's one of the reasons I've found myself interested in joining a faith community. But the first thing this prayer reflection tells me to pray for is:

Please pray: For ourselves and our church that we will fear God in all aspects of our lives.

And I'm, like, no. I'm not going to pray for fear. As someone who has suffered crippling anxiety in my life, anxiety which prevented me for many years from living to my potential, the last thing I'm going to pray for is fear.

I mean... well, just no.