The appeal of junk food restaurants is similar to the appeal of “junk food” religion. The quality of fast food and prepared food is generally inferior to that we cook at home. Yet we flock to these restaurants. The reasons people go in droves to public eating establishments are the same as the reasons some people go to a particular church.
As some eat at a certain fast food chain because of the playground equipment, so some go to a church for the same reason.
As some eat wherever the children want to eat, so some attend wherever the children want to go to church.
As some agree to eat where everyone else wants to eat, so some worship wherever their friends are going.
As some go to a restaurant because they can get in and out quickly, so some go to a church where they can get in, get through, and get home.
As some choose a place to eat that will have something to suit everyone in the family, so some choose a church that will try to please everyone.
As some eat at a restaurant they perceive to be cheap, so some attend a church where little or nothing is expected of them.
Our choice of a place to eat often has little or nothing to do with the quality and purity of the food; little to well support the main reason we are going there - to eat. Most people do not choose a restaurant because they serve healthy, wholesome, nourishing food.
Why do you go to a particular church? We should attend a church that serves up the whole Word of God, which is milk and meat to our bones. Oh, may we taste and see that the Lord is good!
Oh, taste and see the Lord is good,
I heard the Psalmist say.
I tasted; oh, what wondrous food!
He's blessed me from that day.
Adapted from The Baptist Waymark
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