Starvation to Satiation

I was reading a passage from C.S. Lewis from "Man or Rabbit?" in God in the Dock that I found insightful. C.S. Lewis wrote "Suppose you found a man on the point of starvation and wanted to do the right thing. If you had no knowledge of medical science, you would probably give him a large solid meal; and as a result your man would die."
How many times do we see someone starving in one way or another, whether it is physically, emotionally, or even spiritually and we want to help them out by doing all that we can? Sometimes we might even start pouring extra care and friendship, or great amounts of knowledge upon them. This isn't a bad thing to do, but in the case of the emotional flooding of kindness and love, after a while we might stop putting forth the same amount of effort and the individual will go back to the same state that they were before we found them. In the case of the spiritual, which perspective I understand clearly having served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a good Christian wants to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others. However, trying to give a constant flow of spiritual information to another person that hasn't experienced the Gospel on a daily basis might do the opposite of what we would like. Just as giving a huge solid meal to a person that's starving will most likely kill the individual, shoving all of the spiritual knowledge that we have onto someone else can push that individual away. Unfortunately, I have seen or heard of individuals that are firm in their faith and enthusiastic give someone else the solutions to all of life's problems at once, whether or not that person would like their problems solved immediately. The Gospel does change people. Christ changes people. I personally believe that we do need Him in our lives and that following His commandments will help us to improve our lives, but in many situations people need smaller meals after they've been starved for some time, maybe even snacks or a liquid diet to start out with so that their physical or spiritual bodies won't be overwhelmed with nourishment.