Don’t Spit in Your Friend’s Sunday Dinner

The central means through which God feeds His people in the age of the Church is through the preaching of the Word (Ephesians 4:11, 2 Timothy 3:16-4:1, Titus 2:1).  If you speak irresponsibly to someone about his or her pastor, you are spitting in their Sunday dinner.

There are some people who will eat their Sunday meal, even after after you spit. But you understand that their dining experience just won’t be the same.

Likewise, if someone starts spitting in your food, it is perfectly reasonable to kindly ask them to stop.

Thankfully, the positive is also true.  When you pray for your pastor and the preaching of the Word, and when you affirm your pastor, then you season and garnish the Sunday meal for all in your sphere of influence and even some beyond.

I am thankful to serve in a church where God’s people largely support me as pastor, thereby “seasoning” the Sunday meal.