I put a frozen pizza in the oven the other night and read the ingredients while I waited for the self-rising crust to do its thing. The pepperoni was advertised as being made with “real pork” and “real chicken”. As I read further I discovered that the pepperoni was made with “mechanically separated” chicken.
“Mechanically separated”?
What is our definition of “real”?
While the industrial age has produced cheap and quick “food” what have we lost in the process? Have we lost touch with the “real?”
I can’t help but wonder if we were to have an ingredients label on our churches what it might read.
“Made with REAL disciples”, “Ingredients: strategically formulated spirituality, business-model infused Holy Spirit, and enhanced ‘worship’ through relevant music and teaching.”
We are living in an age where many of us don’t know what our food is made of or where it comes from.
The same could be said of our spirituality.
We measure growth all sorts of ways. We track our children's growth and development by comparing video footage and pictures from the years gone by. We make pencil marks in the doorways of our laundry rooms to gauge the inches they acquire over the passing months. We even measure our own growing girth by stepping on the scale.