A healthy church has a pervasive concern with church growth – not simply growing numbers but growing members. A church full of growing Christians is the kind of church growth I want as a pastor. Some today seem to think that one can be a “baby Christian” for a whole lifetime. Growth is seen to be an optional extra for particularly zealous disciples. But be very careful about taking that line of thought. Growth is a sign of life. Growing trees are living trees, and growing animals are living animals. When something stops growing, it dies.

Mark Dever

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Caprial2	1	servings

INGREDIENTS

6	c	Riesling wine or other sweet white wine
1	c	Sugar
1		Orange; Zest of
1	ds	Pure vanilla extract
2		Cinnamon sticks
2		Whole cloves
3		Pears; peeled and cut in
		; half
1/2	c	Brown sugar
1	c	Creme Fraiche
1/2	c	Confectioners sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

To poach the pears, place wine, sugar, orange zest, vanilla, cinnamon, and
cloves in a heavy, medium-size saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat.
Add pears, reduce heat to medium, and simmer until they are fork-tender.
Cool in the liquid until you can handle the pears.
Preheat broiler. Remove pears from liquid and cut into 1/4-inch-thick
slices. Arrange about half a pear on each of 6 ovenproof plates. Sprinkle
pears generously with brown sugar. Place plates under broiler and broil
until the brown sugar is melted and bubbling.
While the pears are broiling, mix together creme fraiche and confectioners'
sugar. Remove pears from oven, drizzle with creme fraiche, and serve warm.
Serves six.
Converted by MC_Buster.
Per serving: 2130 Calories (kcal); 71g Total Fat; (28% calories from fat);
10g Protein; 391g Carbohydrate; 214mg Cholesterol; 143mg Sodium Food
Exchanges: 1 1/2 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 6 Fruit; 14 Fat;
18 Other Carbohydrates
Converted by MM_Buster v2.0n.

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