The United State's most read columnist, Thomas Friedman, likes to tell a story he got from Johns Hopkins University's foreign policy professor Michael Mandelbaum (in his book The Ideas That Conquered the World). A young girl is eating dinner at a friend's house. Her friend's mother asks if she likes brussels sprouts. "Yes, of course," the girl replied. "I like brussels sprouts."

After the dinner, though, the mother notices that the brussels sprouts remain untouched.  "I thought you liked brussesl sprouts," the mother asked.

"I do," answered the girl. "But not enough to actually eat them."

We Christians like a lot of things - peace, love, harmony.  But not enough to actually do something about them.