Bodily Exercise

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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997 12:39:20 -0500 (CDT) "Tyler G. Nally"
<tgnally@prairienet.org> writes:
 
 
>I wonder how many non-overweight apostolics there are out there?

I am not overweight.....yet.  I have grown up in a Apostolic church
and I have a normal metabolism.  (maybe its my Physical Education major
at IUPUI   :P   )
 
>But "bodily exercise profits little" is what we hear.  There's all
>kinds of reasons given to not exercise.  

I sometimes wonder if people tend to take that scripture out of context.
If I am not mistaken, isn't the scripture speaking of spiritual vs.
bodily?
Obviously we can exercise all we want and never be spiritually satisfied,
and thus, bodily exercixe profits little.  However, I don't believe the
Bible
is telling us to not exercise at all.  I think we should not only stay
spiritually
fit, but physically fit too!  

Going in a different direction though, I have been told that if we were
to literally take the Bible and use it as a dietary guide, we would be in

better shape than we are now.  I wonder how honey and locust taste???

Seriously though, we talk about how smoking is bad and drinking is bad,
but as Apostolics we never begin to say that eating out is bad.  Fast
food
could be as bad as ruining your liver with alcohol.  Take a whopper value
meal for instance from Burger King.  That value meal, even though it
taste
Soooo good, is over the daily fat intake for an average adult.  That
means
after eating  that value meal, anything else that day with fat in it, is
going
straight to your hips, legs, stomach, etc. :P

And as I end....

If your local ((insert favorite Sunday night
hang out spot, restaurant))  knows you by name, you might be Apostolic. 
:P

If your choir moves more than an aerobic instructor, you might
be an Apostolic.


Chris Sterrett