Got Milk?
I love milk! I greet each morning with a 16 ounce glass to which I add Nestle's Quik powder and I have an easy breakfast that is agreeable with my system and my palate. Most of us grew up on milk. There are lots of healthy nutrients and mother's milk even has more healthy aspects, to keep us healthy as young babies.
But what happens if one drinks too much milk? There are a few problems that can manifest themselves from drinking too much milk, from constipation up to iron deficiency anemia, which can cause many problems with your system, especially in youth. So again, the axiom goes that you can have too much of a good thing.
Why all this talk about milk? The Bible tells us "I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready." (1 Corinthians 3:2)
Unfortunately though, some preachers never go on to solid food in giving the Good News to their flock. They stay with milk messages because they are easy to digest and pleasant to hear. They do not concern themselves with the spiritual constipation that only a milk message will result in. Dare I say that milk messages are also much more profitable for some prosperity preachers. After all, if you tell people what they want to hear, they will dig deeper into their wallets and purses even if they don't know that you have put them in danger of spiritual anemia.
I was talking with a friend several months ago who was defending the milk Word. I agreed with him that we should start out with milk as said in 1 Corinthians, but we MUST move on to solid food, we must educate the Christian to the level that they know why they believe what they believe and re-enforce the dangers of bad theology. Feel good, positive messages indeed have their place, but not at the near complete exception of the meat of Christianity.
Let's get off the lukewarm, milky, I'm okay, you're okay stuff for a while. Jesus didn't like it, and if it's good enough for Him, as Christians it better be good enough for us.
God's grace be with you,
Fr. Charles Butler
I love milk! I greet each morning with a 16 ounce glass to which I add Nestle's Quik powder and I have an easy breakfast that is agreeable with my system and my palate. Most of us grew up on milk. There are lots of healthy nutrients and mother's milk even has more healthy aspects, to keep us healthy as young babies.
But what happens if one drinks too much milk? There are a few problems that can manifest themselves from drinking too much milk, from constipation up to iron deficiency anemia, which can cause many problems with your system, especially in youth. So again, the axiom goes that you can have too much of a good thing.
Why all this talk about milk? The Bible tells us "I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready." (1 Corinthians 3:2)
Unfortunately though, some preachers never go on to solid food in giving the Good News to their flock. They stay with milk messages because they are easy to digest and pleasant to hear. They do not concern themselves with the spiritual constipation that only a milk message will result in. Dare I say that milk messages are also much more profitable for some prosperity preachers. After all, if you tell people what they want to hear, they will dig deeper into their wallets and purses even if they don't know that you have put them in danger of spiritual anemia.
I was talking with a friend several months ago who was defending the milk Word. I agreed with him that we should start out with milk as said in 1 Corinthians, but we MUST move on to solid food, we must educate the Christian to the level that they know why they believe what they believe and re-enforce the dangers of bad theology. Feel good, positive messages indeed have their place, but not at the near complete exception of the meat of Christianity.
Let's get off the lukewarm, milky, I'm okay, you're okay stuff for a while. Jesus didn't like it, and if it's good enough for Him, as Christians it better be good enough for us.
God's grace be with you,
Fr. Charles Butler
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