Feeding and Excercising

Wade Hodges on wishing he heard this a bit more often from Christians:

The problem with our old church is that we weren’t being exercised. We’re looking for a church where we can work, serve, and maybe even suffer. We want to pay a price for something other than adding a new education wing to our building. We want to put it all on the line and do something crazy for God. We’re tired of being fed. We’ve been fed so much, for so long, that we’ve gotten fat. We’re spiritually obese and we can’t take it anymore. We want to be exercised!

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I think it is potentially dangerous to propose a dichotomy between "feeding" and "exercising", but certainly it is not off base to propose that most people don't have a problem with the "feeding" part.