Quick-mix Spritz – We Love God!

There has been a long tradition which sees the mission of the Church primarily as obedience to a command. It has been customary to speak of 'the missionary mandate.' This way of putting the matter is certainly not without justification, and yet it seems to me that it misses the point. It tends to make mission a burden rather than a joy, to make it part of the law rather than part of the gospel. If one looks at the New Testament evidence one gets another impression. Mission begins with a kind of explosion of joy. The news that the rejected and crucified Jesus is alive is something that cannot possibly be suppressed. It must be told. Who could be silent about such a fact? The mission of the Church in the pages of the New Testament is more like the fallout from a vast explosion, a radioactive fallout which is not lethal but life-giving.

Leslie Newbigin

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Cookies	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2 1/4	c	Sifted all-purpose flour
3/4	c	Sugar
1/4	t	Salt
1/4	t	Baking powder
1	c	Butter
1		Egg
1	t	Vanilla
1/2	t	Almond extract, optional

INSTRUCTIONS

Sift dry ingredients together into a bowl. With a pastry blender or
two knives, cut the butter into the dry ingredients until mixture is
full of very fine lumps. It will resemble pie crust or biscuit mix,
although not as coarse. Measure egg in a measuring cup. A large egg
will measure 1/4 cup. If it does not, add water to the 1/4 cup line.
Add the egg and vanilla (and almond, if using) to the dough, and beat
the mixture very well. Fill cookie press. Form cookies on ungreased
cookie sheets. Bake 10 to 12 minutes at 375 degrees. Remove at once  to
cooling racks. Makes 5 to 6 dozen.  File
ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/mmkah001.zip

A Message from our Provider:

“Life – your only chance. Eternity – payback time”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 3319 Calories From Fat: 1688 Total Fat: 191.7g Cholesterol: 674.1mg Sodium: 806.8mg Potassium: 434mg Carbohydrates: 365.9g Fiber: 7.6g Sugar: 151.3g Protein: 37.3g

Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ’s charge and care of these that are given to Him, extends even to the very day of their resurrection, that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, “I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day.”

Thomas Brooks