Feb
10
2009
I just realized I forgot to announce that my Grad Essay is finally finished! I got the word at the end of January… and if I can get off my butt and submit my request for participation in the grad ceremonies I will be in my cap and gown for April 17 to get my long-anticipated Master of Arts in Christian Studies from Canadian Baptist Seminary.
Expect my proposal to be replaced with the test of the actual finished essay. I will also be finally changing the header graphic - no more intensive research for a while for me! On to everything else… like licensure. That would be the next study challenge.
Feb
10
2009
I connected with a church planter out in Chicago, who is a bit of a marketing whiz. He has built a website called “Eat Jesus.com” where church planters and church leaders contribute articles based on the theme of how to be “self-feeding” Christians. I have been asked to contribute articles there, and I am excited to be involved. Check it out - subscribe, and learn.
It’s a great idea - too many Christians these days only eat “pablum” - spoon-fed Scripture by their pastor every Sunday, with a midweek snack, maybe, if they are involved in some kind of small group or larger group like Young Adults or Youth or Singles or Young Marrieds or Old Timers or MOPS or Men’s Ministry or Women’s Ministry… you get the picture.
Tell me: how healthy are you if you are only fed a bowl of pablum twice a week? You’d be pretty anemic and starving to death. Tell me: how often do you need to be eating physical food to nourish your physical body? Twice? Three times a day? More? Now tell me - if God made our physical bodies to need food regularly - like multiple times a day, how healthy will we be spiritually, if we only feed spiritually twice a week? Now you get the idea of how important it is that we as Christians become self-feeding. Our pastors cannot feed us as often as we need to be spiritually healthy. If we are wondering why our spiritual life seems barren or fruitless, we need look no further than our feeding habits. A starving, emaciated faith does not produce much fruit.
Jesus said in John 6:53-58, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.” He is speaking about spiritual nourishment. It doesn’t get plainer than that. Eatjesus.com and live.
(Crossposted to Planting on Faith)
