I've heard numerous comments over the last few days about how African nations themselves have to get their act together and stop siphoning off foreign aid in order to fill their Swiss Bank Accounts. Live8, however, has nothing to do with African nations' responsibility to their people - it has to do with our responsibility to live justly.

Here's the point - Live8 wasn't meant to help Africa; it was meant to help us live in a way that is consistent with what scripture teaches us about being lenders. It took Geldof and Bono to ask for a year of Jubilee while the rest of God's children did exactly what I did - watched on television.

God help us all.

[via Today at the Mission, emphasis mine]