Fat Camp Anyone?

So a couple of weeks ago in the news there was a story of a mother that was at risk of losing custody of her 8 yr old son to child protective services. The interesting thing about the "abuse" is that it was her son's obesity that was the issue. He is 8 yrs old and 218 lbs. The mother essentially allows him to eat whenever and whatever he wants. If he continues at this rate there is a long list of debilitating health issues that will ensue, with a good chance of death before the age of 30. So the mother is held liable. What if pastors, and heads of ministries and churches were looked at the same way. What if we are not challenging God's children enough to be spiritually fit, and instead are satisfied with fat and happy people? If I am throwing a big party with lots of good and pleasing food I am pretty sure everyone is going to want to come, not too many people are interested in joining a triathlon "party". The reality is that if we want our churches to be filled with people we give them what they want, we don't challenge them, and we water down what it means to follow Christ. But if we want a group of people fit enough to change the world, we need to challenge, motiviate and push. I think that if all churches and ministries thought that there was an organization that was going around checking the "health" of the people sitting in the pews and that we might lose "custody" I wonder if we would do ministry different. But as long as the "children" get to call the shots, they will eat what they want and when they want and we are left wondering about a Christian society that is ineffective for Christ.