There once was an atheist that lived next to a church. One night the church caught on fire and the parishioners rushed to the church to try to save their beloved place of worship. Part way through the fight one of the church members noticed that the atheistic neighbor was helping to haul water. The church member smugly told the atheist, "Wow, I've never seen you this close to the church before." The atheist quickly replied, "Well I've never seen the church on fire before."



Monday, October 4, 2010

Hunger...How important is it?

Why are so many people discontented with their churches?  I've been thinking a lot about this and I believe the number one reason has more to do with the spiritual condition of the people attending the churches than it does the church itself.  I believe the number one reason people don't feel happy at their church is because they are not hungry enough for God.  Many times people say that one main reason they don't like their church is because aren't getting fed.  I have two comments to this:

1) If you were a little more spiritually hungry you wouldn't be as picky about what kind of spiritual food is being served.  Jesus said, "Blessed are the people who hunger and thirst after righteousness because they will be filled."  This is a promise that will not be denied.
2) A mature Christian should be able to feed himself.  There is time for other people to be feeding you but there also comes a time when a person has to be able to get his inspiration from God alone.  We won't always have people around us to feed us when we are hungry, and so we must be ready to do this on our own. 

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