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I think Pergamum notes this but I want to be more explicit.
Your friend that states that people are Church gluttons doesn't really understand what the Church is. The Church isn't a place though we often call the meeting place a Church but the Church forms every time the local body of believers assembles together to worship. It is God who calls men out of the world to come to Him and to assemble together to worship Him.
Perhaps what your friend notices is how some people turn the assembling together into a social occassion or, primarily, an opportunity to form friendships or to have programs for the kids. In that case, however, people are not "Church gluttons" but are not really interested in "Church proper" at all.
In fact, without going into too much detail, this has been a very difficult thing for me lately to watch men, who I believed cared about the Truth depart for Churches with no Gospel that had programs for their kids. I've received contact e-mails from people asking me "...what can you offer us if you attend your Church?" The answer is the Gospel.
Ironically, however, your friend sort of mimics the same sort of doubt that it is the Gospel and the teaching of the Scriptures that men are called into. In other words, he wants to have a "service" designed that attracts the lost so they can go out and bring more lost inside. There is no distinction between the Word of God that is appropriate for the "lost" or the Word of God that is appropriate for the man in the Church. The Word of God declares its absolute authority over both and commands that men repent of their sin and come to Christ. It will then regenerate a man to respond that he might enter into the Church of God and be discipled or it condemns a man for his sin when he walks out and refuses to obey its authority.
Either way, we are all strangers of God brought into His family by the preached Word and you either believe in the power of that to convert to life, keep in life, and build in life or you focus on programs if you're in or desiring that the Word bend to the will if you're outside.
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