Fat Christians
I haven’t been reading Relevant as much as usual lately (instead, I’ve been working a little harder while at work :) ), but there was an article on there today that caught my eye. It’s a topic that has been on my mind a lot recently: faith and action.
Check out: Spiritual Obesity: by Ryan Blanck
I tried to boil it down a bit to save you time, but you should read the whole thing.
Perhaps, I too could take advantage of the overly litigious society in which we live, and make a statement. Exception being, I wouldn¹t bring a lawsuit against another fast food giant, but against the Church. Yes, I would file legal action against the Church for creating an obese Body of Christ.
Every one of us red-blooded, born again Christians, fill our lives and schedules with spiritual intake. We have church on Sunday, mid-week Bible study, family devotions, personal devotions, and a plethora of Christian living books to read. If this amount of spiritual intake were transformed into actual meat and potatoes, we could end hunger in Africa.
I think our spiritual metabolism works very similarly to our physical metabolism… …If we¹re taking in more than we are working out, then there is a problem. We become overweight.
…we also need to be mindful of its quality.. There is a lot of spiritual ³junk food² out there vying for our attention and our appetites. This junk food is all the books and sermons and devotions that make us feel really good, but lack real substance.
…we need to exercise our faith. We need to regularly put our faith into action, real action that makes a difference. Just like a physical workout, a spiritual workout should hurt a little.
