Pizzelle (itailian) – We Love God!

1. The altar call is simply and completely absent from the pages of the New Testament. 2. The altar call is historically absent until the 19th century, and its use at that time (via Charles Finney) was directly based upon bad theology and a man-centered, manipulative methodology. 3. The altar call very easily confuses the physical act of “coming forward” with the spiritual act of “coming to Christ.” These two can happen simultaneously, but too often people believe that coming to Christ is going forward (and vice-versa). 4. The altar call can easily deceive people about the reality of their spiritual state and the biblical basis for assurance. The Bible never offers us assurance on the ground that we “went forward.” 5. The altar call partially replaces baptism as the means of public profession of faith. 6. The altar call can mislead us to think that salvation (or any official response to God’s Word) happens primarily on Sundays, only at the end of the service, and only “up front.” 7. The altar call can confuse people regarding “sacred” things and “sacred” places, as the name “altar call” suggests. 8. The altar call is not sensitive to our cautious and relational age where most people come to faith over a period of time and often with the interaction of a good friend. 9. The altar call is often seen as “the most important part of the service”, and this de-emphasizes the truly more important parts of corporate worship which God has prescribed (preaching, prayer, fellowship, singing). 10. God is glorified to powerfully bless the things He has prescribed (preaching, prayer, fellowship, singing), not the things we have invented. We should always be leery of adding to God’s prescriptions for His corporate worship (Ryan Kelly).

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Vegetables	Italian	Cookies, Ethnic, Italian	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

6		Eggs
1/4	c	Vegetable oil
1/4	c	Butter or margarine
1 1/2	c	Sugar
1/4	c	Vegetable shortening
2	t	Baking powder
1/4	t	Salt
1 1/2	t	Flavoring, anise lemon
		Vanilla or almond), Vanilla or almond
2 1/2	c	Flour

INSTRUCTIONS

Bleand ingredients together, adding one at a time.  Drop batter by the
teaspoonful onto center of each cookie section.  Close lid and allow
to cook 30 to 45 seconds or until lightly brown.  Allow to cool on
wire rack or towels.  Dust with powdered sugar.  Cookies may be  served
flat or rolled tightly into a cylinder.  Cookies must be hot  during
rolling and held in shape until cool. Posted to MC-Recipe  Digest V1
#291  Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 13:37:00 -0600  From:
OrionLuver@eosinc.com (Mary L. Taylor)

A Message from our Provider:

“We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God — ah, then things must be critical indeed! #A.J. Gossip”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 4081 Calories From Fat: 1628 Total Fat: 182.9g Cholesterol: 1151.5mg Sodium: 2351mg Potassium: 768.8mg Carbohydrates: 543.6g Fiber: 8.5g Sugar: 301.4g Protein: 70.1g

Authentic, biblical Christianity has always been an exclusive religion. This became apparent during the Roman Empire. When the Emperor Alexander Severus heard about Christianity, he placed an image of Christ beside the other gods in his private chapel, just to be safe. The Romans were happy to welcome Jesus into their pantheon. What the Romans couldn’t understand was why Christians refused to reciprocate. If the emperor was willing to worship Christ, why weren’t Christians willing to worship the emperor? Yet the early Christians insisted that in order to worship Christ at all, they had to worship Christ alone. They were even willing to stand up for this conviction by playing “Christians and lions” at the Colosseum.

Philip Graham Ryken