Reading the Menu

WHEN you go to a restaurant, they give you a menu. The menu says what a particular restaurant at a particular location offers to eat. Now, you can read a menu and get real hungry. Even though your original hunger may have led you to the restaurant, a menu can make you feel like salivating.

You hear lots of people say as they review their choices, “Mmmm, that looks good.” Then you have somebody who comes and proclaims the menu to you.

A waiter then exegetes the menu. They expound on the menu. They take you through the menu. They describe the menu.

Then they have a Q and A session by asking if they can answer any questions about the menu. So a restaurant patron can read the menu and hear about the menu, but they don’t then say amen and go home.

They don’t leave the restaurant talking about how great the menu was or how great the waiter did explaining it. That is not the reason why you came. You didn’t come to read about it nor did you come to just hear somebody describe it. You came to experience it.

So until you’ve eaten, you’re not through. Many people are satisfied to come to church to read from the menu, to have somebody describe the menu, and then go home not having partaken of the meal and still being hungry.