Will the real Christians please stand up?

I'm having a lot of trouble with the tragedy going on in Haiti and the responses of people claiming to follow Christ as Lord. This might just be a long vent and I'm not sure if it's all going to flow together too well.
First, it's embarrassing and convicting that it take things like single natural disasters for people to take notice of the everyday disasters occurring in this fallen world and to respond.

I'm afraid that events like this will begin to fade away when the next big news story occurs and I wish to contrast this event to September 11th. Hopefully passion will not only remain, but grow much stronger, to usher in God's Kingdom in Haiti and around the world in hurting places. Following September 11th, the people of the US were united and even were willing to sacrifice their own lives in response to that. While one may or may not agree with any of those wars, it is evident that there was loyalty to what they believed and action took place that took true sacrifice. And that was all based on earthly allegiances. As Jesus said in John 18:36, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world." As believers, our allegiances are no longer to the kingdoms of this earth, but to the kingdom of God. And as believers, we have entered into the family of God, a family that includes all covered by the grace of God. These new ties go beyond any earthly ties, such as the bond of "Americans" or even familial bonds. Jesus said that "whomever does the will of God is his mother, brother, sister." This is a recurring theme throughout scripture. And it is also a recurring theme that when one provides help to a believer, they are truly doing that same act of love to Jesus himself, as believers are the body of Christ.
We have brothers and sisters hurting in this world, in Haiti and beyond, and we are ignoring their cries. We hoard our wealth ("To whom much is given, much is expected") and even ignore their pleas in our prayers.
I am questioning whether things like eating at a nice restaurant should even be a possibility for followers of Christ for we have brothers and sisters who don't even know where there next meal is coming from. It begins to take on new meaning when you actually think of them as your brothers and sisters, for who would ignore a starving little sister and go out to eat at Applebees? And yet we do it all the time. I have also heard from some Christians who seemingly don't really care about what is happening, I have a hard time seeing how that can possibly occur for those adopted into the family of God.

One last thought of mine was in regards to the involvement of the celebrities in raising funds and awareness of the Haiti earthquake. Am I the only one that feels like the Church is getting blown out of the water in their passion for reaching out by Hollywood? What are we doing!?

I will end this with Jesus' parable of the sheep and the goats.

³¹"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. ³²All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. ³³He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

³⁴"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. ³⁵For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, ³⁶I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

³⁷"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? ³⁸When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? ³⁹When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'

⁴⁰"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

⁴¹"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. ⁴²For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, ⁴³I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'

⁴⁴"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

⁴⁵"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

⁴⁶"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

I pray that we would rise to righteousness and be the hands and feet of Jesus ushering in the Kingdom of God, no matter what the cost.

"Join Me"

Some background- it's Sunday morn, the congregation is singing some tunes, and then I hear God say to me 'Come, join me.' I take in the divine moment and think it's pretty cool and think to myself, 'Yeah, I'm going to join You, I'm going to join You later this summer where you've called me to Brazil.' And I give myself a pat on the spiritual back and return to singing songs.

Monday evening I'm walking back to the dorms and thinking that the frosted trees are looking pretty sweet and then it hits me. I (and you also) have been called to follow after Christ, not just following after Him in times and seasons of specific 'ministry' but everyday of our lives. I begin to wonder: what would it look like for me to follow after Christ in my everyday life? What if I walked into the dorms following in the footsteps of Christ who is present in all situations? What if I followed after Him into my dorm and focused on Him during my interactions with my roommate-brother and the others I run into each day? What if I followed after Him and sat down behind Him in class? While driving? While eating? While alone? I believe if I (and we) began to truly do that, we would see a world seeing Christ in us and we would be able to come to a grasp firsthand of how the early Church was labeled as 'little Christs.'

Trebuchet Font is some pretty cool stuff