Does the Church Serve Good Food
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★MANY of you think that the church only wants your money. But stop and think about this mentality.
When you go to the grocery store, do you say, this store just wants my money? When you go buy a new car, do you say, General Motors just wants my money?
When you go to the mall, do you say, the mall just wants my money? You don’t say that about the grocer. You don’t say that about the dealership. You don’t say that about the mall.
Why? Because that’s not the issue. The issue is that you need food and the grocery store has food. The value you place on the food you need makes it legitimate for you to pay for the food you receive.
You need a car so it makes sense to buy a vehicle to get you where you need to go. You need clothes, so you go to the mall in order to find what you need. In other words, it’s not that these places just want your money, but they are indeed providing something you absolutely need.
We need God. We need spiritual help. We need spiritual light. We need training for our children.
We need to know God’s way. If we can go to the grocery store for physical food, then we ought to be willing to come to the house of God for spiritual food without whining about it.
The question is not, does the church want my money. The question is, does the church serve good food.
The point
As grocery stores and dealerships provide needed goods in exchange for payment, the church provides essential spiritual food and direction; we should value the latter more than we resent the cost.