The church is not the place to get all your felt needs met. Jesus didn’t intend the church to be your spiritual clearinghouse of inspiration and self-fulfillment. The church is not like the posh Delta Sky Club lounge at the airport, feeding your spiritual hunger and giving you a place to put your feet up before another long week. The church is the crucible that makes us disciples, the furnace that burns away selfishness and self-preference and every notion of a life of self-fulfillment and forges a purity of faith that is an affront to a world intoxicated with the self.
