When the Bible speaks for you...

I can't stand your religious meetings.

I'm fed up with your conferences and conventions.

I want nothing to do with your religion projects,

your pretentious slogans and goals.

I'm sick of your fund-raising schemes,

your public relations and image making.

I've had all I can take of your noisy ego-music.

When was the last time you sang to me?

Do you know what I want?

I want justice—oceans of it.

I want fairness—rivers of it.

That's what I want. That's all I want.

(Amos 5 v 21-24 - "The Message")

How disconcerting to find God speaking to his people, in a way that mirror's your own thoughts which you'd assumed to be wrong and based on your own selfishness. Is this applicable to us today?