Are you wearing an apron or a bib?

Seems to me there are two kinds of followers of Jesus. There are ones who wear aprons and there are ones who wear bibs.

The bib wearers are the ones who like little babies have to be constantly be fed (and changed!). They are part of the church to be fed. They do not feed themselves in private worship, devotion or service. Bib wearers view the church and spiritual life as a commodity to be consumed in order to achieve and maintain some non-existent balance in life. Bib wearers are like little birds in the nest who move their beaks up and down, up and down and screech until mama (the church, the pastor) feeds them. You know what sometimes it is OK to be a bib wearer in the church when you are first starting out in the faith or when you have been deeply wounded. Sometimes you just need to be fed and soak in God's love.

But there comes a time when you need to put on the apron. Apron wearers are fed through the community of faith as well but they also know how to feed themselves through practicing the means of grace themselves and together with others outside the context of the church. They do not rely solely on the church or her pastor to feed them. They find nourishment for their life in the act of serving others. Apron wearers do not ask what is here for me and my kids to consume but how can I best serve God at this church.

So what will it be- bib or apron :)