"You are what you eat" | Rev. Dr. Donovan Drake preaching | 08.23.26

Why the theme? Because it's more and more challenging to be the church these days.

The church is up against all the pressures that keep us from being in community, that keep our minds distracted from our mission and ministry.

The encouragement is for all of us to put a little bit more discipline into our discipleship.

To encourage one another to go deeper in the faith.

To get the focus on what life is all about.

So taste and see what it's like to invite the Holy Spirit into your life through prayer and trust.

Taste and see what it's like to take a Sabbath.

Put the phone away, put the next thing on the agenda away, and rest.

Taste and see what it's like to memorize a word from God, that God is our refuge and strength, the very present help in times of trouble, so that when you're in trouble, you'll have something to lean on.

Taste and see what it's like to sacrifice some precious time for someone else, so that you'll know this neighbor that Jesus speaks so highly of.

Push out into the deep water, volunteer with room in the inn.

Hey, we need a few more bus drivers this year.

How hard is that? Habitat.

Read to a child in a school somewhere.

The more we taste and see, the more we see clearly the ways of God, and the more we live and move into the being that is the body of Christ.