Conversion: Diet Or Lifestyle?

[344 words] I have lost 300 pounds: two pounds 150 times. Many have. It is one thing to lose weight. It is a radically different thing to change our lifestyle. Yet diets fail. All how-to books ultimately fail. Why? Because they do not alter the lifestyle. There are no shortcuts. There is no magic. No pain, no gain. We must change our thinking, our values, our purposes, our direction, yes. our very lifestyle. We need to learn how to eat to live. It is that simple. This also works down at church. You don’t join the church, get religion, experience a religious high. Baptism is the new birth, but Christianity is a life. You are born to live. A consumer-oriented, felt-needs religion fails. The church is not here to please. The church is not Magic Kingdom. You don’t merely take religious pills. You don’t have that one experience that lasts…