I reviewed some of the church growth material coming from our denominational headquarters. One publication said that, in order to get our churches growing again, we should “open the front doors and close the back doors”… What we actually need to do is to close the front door and open the back door! If we really want to see our churches grow, we need to make it harder to join and we need to be better about excluding people. We need to be able to show that there is a distinction between the church and the world – that it means something to be a Christian. If someone who claims to be a Christian refuses to live as a Christian should live, we need to follow what Paul said and, for the glory of God and for that person’s own good, we need to exclude him or her form membership in the church.

Mark Dever

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs	English	Desserts, Cookies	180	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3	c	Brown sugar
1	tb	Baking soda
3	c	Butter or margarine
3	c	Flour
6	c	Oatmeal
2		Eggs

INSTRUCTIONS

Put all this in a huge bowl and mash, knead, squeeze, (see below). Then
form it into small balls, midway between filbert size and English walnut
size.  Place on ungreased cookie sheet.  Butter the bottom of a small
glass, dip it in granulated sugar and mash the balls flat. Keep doing it.
You need butter the glass bottom only once or twice but re-dip it in sugar
for each ball.  Then bake at 350 for 10 to 12 minutes. Let them sit just a
bit before taking up from cookie sheet.
***** This is a Peg Bracken recipe and Peg stated "However, these are the
best-tasting as well as the fastest, easiest and cheapest cookies I ever
ran into and I wouldn't say such a thing unless I meant it. the community
Mental Health Center at St. Lwarence Hospital in Lansing, Michigan, printed
it, in the hope of channeling some energies away from throwing bricks, or
snarling at Santa Claus.  The more you knead, mash, squeeze and beat the
bejunior out of the dough, the better you feel and the better the cookies
taste.
Recipe By     :
From: Ladies Home Journal- August 1991
File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/mmdja006.zip

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