There's a story about a...
There's a story about a man who volunteered to serve at a soup kitchen run by nuns in
Chicago. Afterward, he confided to his parish priest, "I didn't feel any love for the men
there."
"So what?" replied the priest. "The church says nothing about that. The nuns go there to
feed people. We go to the soup kitchens to be loved, and think we're going home feeling
so warm and cozy inside about how righteous we are. But Jesus just said, 'Feed my
sheep.' "
Søren Kierkegaard observed, "Jesus wants followers, not admirers." It's a question we'd