MATTHEW 25:40
Feed one life.
Save the world entire.
The Body of Christ is not a brand. It’s a body—meant to move, to serve, to feed.
Caritas defecit
We Don't Love Each Other Enough
The streets of America look like ancient Rome.Piles of bodies. Crushed souls.Crowds pass by while the suffering rot in plain sight.We stopped shaming the world with radical love and good works.Now we shame the name of Jesus by doing nothing.
Look at the Numbers.
Then Look at Your Church.
Fayetteville, AR
120:1
500 homeless
→ 60,000+ self-identified Christians
Los Angeles
12:1
80,000 homeless
→ 1,000,000+ self-identified Christians
New York City
28:1
90,000 homeless
→ 2,500,000 self-identified Christians
nationwide
1,384:1
112,000 drug overdoses
→ 1.55 million self-identified Christians
(Data sources: Pew Research + HUD PIT counts; rough averages used for impact; CDC 2023)
There are dozens—sometimes hundreds—of Christians for every person sleeping on the street.
That’s not a supply problem.
That’s a discipleship crisis.What if every small group or home church took responsibility for one person in crisis?
What if we stopped waiting for big institutions and just became the Church again—around tables, in gardens, in living rooms?We don’t need more buildings.
We need people who will say:
“Come live with us. Come eat with us. You’re not alone anymore.”This isn’t complicated.
It’s just costly.Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.
— Matthew 25:40And we stopped doing it.
Morimur saturi
We Die Full
Commercial food isn’t feeding people—it’s killing them.America is dying from abundance.Not starvation—malformation.→ 1 in 5 children are now obese.
→ 1 in 2 adults will be diagnosed with cancer.
→ 130 million Americans are on prescription drugs.
→ 77% don’t get even minimal exercise.We’re medicated, isolated, inflamed, addicted—and the Church is handing out free donuts in the foyer like it’s a potluck at Gomorrah.Knock it off.The Church should be the last place serving poison—and the first place offering healing.We were given dominion over the earth—not permission to destroy it.Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over every living thing.
— Genesis 1:28God gave us dominion.And we handed it to Sysco.
Ecclesia moritur
The Church is Dying—Because It Forgot How to Feed
The modern Church is shrinking.
Not because people stopped believing in God—
but because they stopped seeing Him in us.Yes, there are signs of hope—Gen Z is showing a hunger for truth, some are returning to tradition, and new movements are springing up.But let’s not pretend the overall trend isn’t catastrophic.
We live in a society drifting further from God by the year.
De-churching is the largest spiritual shift in American history.
Young people are open—but they’re also deeply disillusioned. And many of them don’t see Christ in the Church at all.In Acts 6, the Church was feeding so many people that the apostles had to appoint new leaders just to wait tables.
Feeding the community was that central to the Gospel.We’ve drifted far from that model.We don’t break bread—we hand out shrink wrap.
We don’t welcome strangers—we call them a liability.
We don’t nourish—we just distribute calories.And the insides of our churches?
They look more like temples to comfort and personal branding than crowded tables full of bread, soup, and prayer.People are struggling more than ever—financially, mentally, spiritually.
But the answer isn’t handing out food in plastic and walking away.
The answer is to sit down together, eat together, and heal together.
That’s what Jesus did. That’s what the early Church did.
And that’s what we’ve forgotten.The Body of Christ was once known for its love—and its tables.
That’s how the Church grew.
And that’s how it will grow again.Regrow the Church. Regrow food.
Start planting. Start cooking. Start healing.I know your works. You have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead.
— Revelation 3:1
Fiat mihi
Return to Your Real Roots
Wake up:
You are being poisoned—spiritually, physically, systemically.
You’re suffering because we are rapidly forgetting the most human thing of all:
how to grow food and feed ourselves.And we have to remember—seriously—how to live off the land before it’s too late.
Not for “sustainability.” For survival.Start making food. Real food.
Nothing in a box. Not ultra-processed.Use the church kitchens to cook daily. Plant gardens. Get messy.
Make stews. Bake bread. Feed the people Jesus loves—with meals that honor their humanity.We were made for gardens, not concrete.
Eat real meals together. Feed your community with nourishment—spiritual and physical.Are you even cooking for your family?
Or are you letting McDonald’s disciple your kids through the drive-thru?Stop waiting for someone else to fix it.
You are the someone else.How do we do it?
We stop acting like isolated consumers and start acting like the Body of Christ—one household, one table, one mission, one church.All the believers were together and had everything in common.
They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.
Every day they continued to meet together…
they broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts.
— Acts 2:44–46We get out of the pews and into the kitchens.
Aprons are our vestments.
That’s where the healing begins.
That’s where the Kingdom is set on fire.
credits:
🎨 Miracle of the Bread and Fish, Giovanni Lanfranco, c 1620-1623
📸 Unsplash: jonathan kemper, justus menke, adam thomas
◻️ Flaticon: wanicon
Panem date
You’re In. Let’s Feed One Life.
You’re In. Let’s Feed One Life.Thank you for signing up.You’re not alone—and you’re not crazy for feeling like the Church has drifted too far from what Jesus actually told us to do.We’ll be in touch soon with stories, ideas, and real ways to start feeding people in your city.
Not with scraps—but with dignity, beauty, and presence.Until then, start with one.
One meal. One conversation. One act of real love.Let’s get back to being the Church.