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Why are Churches so lax on food/health?
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<blockquote data-quote="JAM2b" data-source="post: 73617850" data-attributes="member: 358658"><p>Healthy food is expensive. Churches want to be hospitable but have budgets. Donuts and chips are much cheaper than grapes and nuts. No one forces anyone to eat the donuts that are at the church. If your diet consist only of what you get when you walk in the church doors, then you're going to starve ...this could have a double meaning.</p><p></p><p>I know churches who give food to the needy and make an effort to give healthy foods, and a couple of ministries around here even have a garden to give fresh produce when available. There is also a vegetarian soup kitchen run out of one of the churches nearby.</p><p></p><p>If eating a couple of donuts on a Sunday morning is destroying people's body, then none of us have any hope of physical health. What will make or break your health is your over all diet. <strong>All</strong> things in moderation, right? Including donuts and bacon, though I prefer turkey bacon. I don't do pork because pigs are gross.</p><p></p><p>The church is not a place for people to get professional, expert, nutritional advice. That is for nutritionist and medical professional. Most people know and understand what a regular healthy diet should be like. When people are struggling with food choices, ask if they can afford good food. If they can't, then is there something you or the church can do about it?</p><p></p><p>Look into how their spiritual health is, or rather, the strength of their relationship with the Lord. When people are walking closely to the Lord as far as relationship with Him goes, then these choices and these cravings and impulses can be relieved by the Lord and grace can be given. If a church isn't looking to the members spiritual health, then the physical health of those who struggle with food will fall by the wayside.</p><p></p><p>That being said, I have been part of some churches that encourage and give the example of over eating through many meals together. Feasting together is their way of socializing. Eating much food is encouraged, both healthy and unhealthy foods (but I have also been to churches that aren't like that at all). If that is the case, then yes, those individual churches have some explaining to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JAM2b, post: 73617850, member: 358658"] Healthy food is expensive. Churches want to be hospitable but have budgets. Donuts and chips are much cheaper than grapes and nuts. No one forces anyone to eat the donuts that are at the church. If your diet consist only of what you get when you walk in the church doors, then you're going to starve ...this could have a double meaning. I know churches who give food to the needy and make an effort to give healthy foods, and a couple of ministries around here even have a garden to give fresh produce when available. There is also a vegetarian soup kitchen run out of one of the churches nearby. If eating a couple of donuts on a Sunday morning is destroying people's body, then none of us have any hope of physical health. What will make or break your health is your over all diet. [B]All[/B] things in moderation, right? Including donuts and bacon, though I prefer turkey bacon. I don't do pork because pigs are gross. The church is not a place for people to get professional, expert, nutritional advice. That is for nutritionist and medical professional. Most people know and understand what a regular healthy diet should be like. When people are struggling with food choices, ask if they can afford good food. If they can't, then is there something you or the church can do about it? Look into how their spiritual health is, or rather, the strength of their relationship with the Lord. When people are walking closely to the Lord as far as relationship with Him goes, then these choices and these cravings and impulses can be relieved by the Lord and grace can be given. If a church isn't looking to the members spiritual health, then the physical health of those who struggle with food will fall by the wayside. That being said, I have been part of some churches that encourage and give the example of over eating through many meals together. Feasting together is their way of socializing. Eating much food is encouraged, both healthy and unhealthy foods (but I have also been to churches that aren't like that at all). If that is the case, then yes, those individual churches have some explaining to do. [/QUOTE]
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