Imagine if halfway through feeding the 5,000 Jesus was like, “Alright I’ve helped enough. The rest of you really need to learn how to fish and support yourselves. It’ll help you in the long run.”
good friend is late 20s. in shape, has £10,000 a year, lives in a fine house with some of the finest woods in the country. but he’s consistently ghosted, ignored, or told “you’re the last man in the world i could be prevailed upon to marry.” modern women are broken.
Today at church, one family sat in the 2nd row--not their normal row. That pushed the family who normally sits in the 2nd row to the 3rd row--our normal row. So we sat in the 4th row, and the older couple who usually sits behind us was like "what's happening?"
It was chaos.
You can pray before meals but be a jerk to the waitstaff.
You can read the Bible every morning but go to work and exploit people.
You can “evangelize” on the street corners but ignore unhoused folks next to you.
Without a Christlike posture, our Christian practices don’t matter.