God created and loves the physical world. We, like Christ, are both spiritual AND physical. And both are good.
This thread is fhe first place I've heard it, but I agree with the concept of identifying peoples "felt needs". It is what Jesus did every time he healed someone.
Incorrect and not supported by scripture.
Our goal, our focus, the object of our fixation is Christ and our eternity with Him. We are told dozens of times over to reject the world and all the allurements it offers. Only those who hold to the errant "prosperity gospel" feel differently.
Titus 2:12
Romans 13:14
Galatians 5
Colossians 3:5
No, Christ did not meet peoples "felt needs", he saved them from eternal damnation. The unsaved have their minds set on fleshly desires and are at a natural enmity with God. They therefore can't even recognize their "felt need" for salvation, until the Holy Spirit removes our blinders and convicts us of our sin.
We are called to Holiness and a desire for heaven, not earthly, temporal things.
How about the felt needs of the people who returned a second time to be physically fed? How about the felt need of the woman at the well to avoid talking about her sin, for which she would be publicly ostracized? (five husbands and the one she was living with now was not her husband)
The felt needs of Nicodemus? I would think he would have liked to have his ego stroked, after all he was a pharisee. Jesus challenged him and pointed out his lack of understanding in John 3. There are countless other examples. Did Jeremiah minister to the people's felt needs?
And the felt needs of the people who DON'T like rock music? What about them?