I'm not talking about cookies. I'm talking about that "holy spiritual hunger" that we should apparently all come to church with. "I want to be filled. I want to be fed." Isn't that pretty much what we look for in a church? A place that will feed us spiritually. And when we don't get fed -- because we rarely do -- we complain.
"I've been visiting some other churches, I'm just not getting fed here."
"I really want to receive as much as I can from God and I just feel like that's not happening here."
It's a pretty holy way to go about complaining, I'd say.
It sounds really God-like and utterly Christian.
But hey, don't worry. This isn't a condemnation post.
I am just as guilty of this as the next guy. Maybe more so. I spent three months bouncing from church to church looking to be filled, only to find myself right back at the same church I started, hungrier than when I had begun.
Here's the point I'm getting at:
I'm perfectly happy to spoon-feed my one year old. But, if I'm still spoon-feeding him when he's five, we've got a problem. Here's a fork. Feed yourself. -- Jonathan Acuff
Maybe I don't really know exactly what all that means. But it sounded pretty legit. Like something I should probably share. So I did.
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