Eating One Meal Per Week
Thursday, July 24, 2025
“Let us attend to sermons, but above all, let us be much alone with Jesus.” – C.H. Spurgeon
I shook my head in unbelief when I heard it…
Here was a man in his 30s, raised by Christian parents in a sound Bible-believing church, who had also made a genuine profession of faith in Jesus Christ at an early age. And yet, when asked why he was leaving the church after all those years – and taking his wife and kids with him – he gave the saddest and most simplistic answer I’ve ever heard.
“I’m just not being fed,” he said on his way out the door.
I assume that over the subsequent years, this young man, husband, and father had a chance to rethink his reasoning because his words reflected a surprising lack of spiritual maturity. After all, what 30-year-old man still requires help feeding himself breakfast, lunch, and dinner? And yet, this same able-bodied fellow claimed that after three decades as a Christian, he still needed someone to spoon-feed him spiritual nourishment every Sunday morning.
The truth of the matter is that he should have started feeding himself long ago. Not only that, but he also should have been feeding his children, instead of acting like a spiritually-dependent child that required around-the-clock care.
That is why it is so important to spend quality time with God each and every day. The keys to spiritual growth and maturity are reading His Word and communing with Him in prayer. Neglect those twin practices and you will remain a spiritual infant for the rest of your life… and that would be both a shame and a pity.
No physically healthy person eats just once a week and no spiritually healthy person depends on a one-hour meal on Sunday mornings to sustain them throughout the week.
“Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food! For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.” Hebrews 5:12-14 (BSB)
- Rev. Dale M. Glading, President
