Can you cook?

I read this recently at Backyard Missionary about how so many people treat Sundays and church attendance.  It is a good read, we must make sure that our faith is not fed by mear church attendance, but by our lifestyle and whole journey with God!

If there’s a phrase or idea that has really set us on our butt as the church it would have to be that of Sunday as ‘feeding time’.

If you’ve been around churches any length of time then I’m sure you will have heard people speak of ‘getting fed’ on Sundays. It’s so accepted now that it rarely gets questioned, but surely we need to keep challenging this idea that actually serves to undermine progress towards spiritual maturity.
Yes you heard me correctly.
If you had an adult child that came back home to ‘get fed’ (once a week) you would surely question what was going on in their minds. First they’d be completely malnourished… but secondly you’d have to look in the mirror and ask ‘what kind of lame job did I do as a parent?!’
Why didn’t I teach my kid to cook?… And why didn’t I teach my kid to take responsibility for their own nutrition?…
I know its not rocket science, but its a deeply ingrained way of thought – that we turn up on Sundays to ‘get fed’ usually by a ‘skilled chef’ who has done some serious preparation and for some (many?) that’s it for the week.

So next time you hear someone say that they are not being fed in 'church' ask them can they cook?  We really do need to take responsibility for ourselves!