As a person who is trying to stay on a straight and narrow path I’ll be honest — I found many of the comments on Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day to be more a hindrance than a help.

I appreciate the company’s values and I also respect the opinions of those whose opinions differ on that stance.

I found many of the comments to be highly self-righteous and vainglorious, comments equating this business to a rung in the ladder to becoming a complete Christian.

I don’t wear my Christianity on my sleeve because I am still on a road to discovery on this and these comments to a weaker person would be enough to drive them off the path.

Stumbling blocks is what these are and the Bible itself speaks of these: “Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead make up your mind not to put any stumbling block in the way of a brother or sister.”

The other is a more succinct verse: “Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak.”

The comments I saw discouraged me as I saw those that equated this restaurant to a pathway to eternal life. I had thought about covering this but just couldn’t do it since the restaurant itself — the event actually the brainchild of former Governor Mike Huckabee — never sanctioned this day.

It wasn’t until I saw a friend’s post that I saw what a Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day should be about next year.

My friend simply said: “I wish the church would put this much energy into feeding the homeless and serving the helpless.”

To me that’s what this day should have been about; not posting photos of yourself at this restaurant, but a day to put what you preach to service.

Instead of being a day to celebrate free speech, as it should have been, it turned out to be a day of politicizing and promoting rhetoric rather than celebrating Christianity.

Next year, and I believe they should have one, should be a day where people go to Chick-fil-A, buy the business’s food but distribute it to the homeless and those shut in. Do this without boasting and bragging, do this like Jesus Christ would have done it — not for self-glory or proselytizing but the joy of helping someone else.

While I think the other side did just as much damage to this day, I believe it is the Christian’s duty to turn the other cheek and love their fellow man. People expect this out of Christians.

I think my friend said it best, however, “I believe with all of my heart that if Jesus was physically on Earth today, He would have been entirely too busy with his two fish and five loaves to eat at Chick-fil-A.” — Lance Martin