Almost nobody has a simple relationship with food. Either you think about it more than you would like to admit, or you have spent years managing it, or both. And the culture offers you two ways out that look like opposites and function like twins. One says enjoy it, you have earned it. The other says get disciplined, get in shape, get control of yourself. Most of us have tried both. Most of us have watched both fail, sometimes in the same week. Which raises a question worth sitting with. What if the problem was never the food, or your fitness routine?In week three of our series Embodied, Pastor Luke Heirendt turns to a passage in Colossians where Paul describes a set of religious rules that sound remarkably like modern diet advice. "Do not handle. Do not taste. Do not touch." Paul's verdict is blunt: rules like these have an appearance of wisdom, but no power whatsoever to stop the indulgence of the flesh. Which means the discipline you keep reaching for was never going to fix the appetite you keep fighting, because you cannot solve worshiping your stomach by worshiping your body. From there the message goes somewhere most conversations about food never go. Ezekiel describes a city God judged for having too much, and the charge is startling: they were arrogant, overfed, and unconcerned, and they did not help the poor at their door. The fullness was not really the problem. What they stopped seeing was. The test of your love for God isn't your plate or your mirror. It's your neighbor.For more info about our church community, or to connect with us, go to www.creekside.cc