Emerging Wednesday- theology by Bono

Bono from U2 recevied an award from the NAACP for his Red campaign, and had this to say about God and the poor:

"Whatever thoughts we have about God, who He is or even if God exists, most will agree that God has a special place for the poor. The poor are where God lives. God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is where the opportunity is lost and lives are shattered. God is with the mother who has infected her child with a virus that will take both their lives. God is under the rubble of the cries that we hear during wartime. God, my friends, is with the poor. And God is with us, if we are with them."

The quote is even more striking because he pointed it directly at the church, specifically "those in the church who sit in judgment". Ouch. What does it say to the world when Bono is making more sense to them than the church is?