"If you want to become a professional church grumbler, not just some amateur occasionally throwing rocks at the worship service, minister or other attributes of the church, there's one key phrase you need to know:
"I'm not being fed."
This simple compliant--the teaching is lacking, the sermons are thin, the worship music is not uplifting enough, or a million other things that people find inadequate---is the official complaint of church grumblers the world over."
He goes ahead to tell about what his friend says when told that they are not being fed. He says:
"I'm perfectly happy to spoon feed my one-year-old. But of I'm spoon-feeding him when he's five, we've got a problem."
I thought of this because our church will soon begin a long process of selecting a new minister and worship leader. This is when these folks step forward to explain to the leaders why they want a change in direction. Mind you: Not a direction they can define. They will tell you when they see it and they will look for someone "like them". They will want someone with nothing new to feed them.
After all this isn't about "being fed", this is about "being comfortable while being righteous."
This is why GOD gave the Children of Israel a king named "Saul". He fit the grumbler's image not GOD's.
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