Spiritually Fat?

This past week I received my new CBD (Christian Book Distributors) catalog in the mail. I buy just about every Christian book from them and I enjoy their catalog very much. This web based book store has everything you can imagine for the Christian to grow. Not all of it is good, but most of the publications are solid. As I began to look through the catalog I noticed several items that I plan on purchasing and was delighted at the prices. The rest of the day I kept thinking about all of the resources that every Christian has in this country. It is beyond what anyone else is probably able to get. With all of the resources we have for the Christian life we still have too many problems in the Church and too much inward focus. This is what really makes me mad.


We have Christian bookstores, Christian Conferences, Christian music, Christian web pages, and Christian TV. With all of these resources you would think that we would be filled with so much love and joy that it would make the rest of the world jealous, but that's not the case. We have become inward focused and self indulgent. We have become Spiritually Fat and consumed with our own Spiritual happiness. We need to put a stop to this! The Christian life is one of action and not one of just absorbing information.

A true apprentice (disciple) of Jesus is always to be growing, but that growth is to promote good works that the Apostle James talks about in the second chapter of his letter to the Church. This is the part that we leave off most of the time. People keep talking about getting fed and they are mostly the ones who never want to reach out. The Church exists for you to grow and serve. When you just grow you become Spriritually Fat and don't accomplish anything for your Church or for God.