Outline: Starving Christians

Hopefully we are coming out of the Covid era, time will tell. But during the last two years, many Christians have been starving themselves. A man named Nisraddin Hoca lived in Asia about 700 years ago, and he had a donkey with a big appetite. He wondered if by gradually reducing the animal’s food every day it might be possible to condition the animal to get along without any food at all. This experiment continued for several weeks, but a few days after all the food had stopped the donkey died. He commented, “What a pity that he should die just when he was getting accustomed to hunger!” That sounds ridiculous, but it is not much different from what many Christians do. They discontinue regular Bible study. Wednesday prayer meeting and Sunday night worship service become just like any other time of the week, and it is used for recreation….