We sometimes use the analogy of beef stew to illustrate how we think racial diversity will play out in our church. We don’t want to be a bag of marbles, where each culture exists side by side in a congregation but with interpenetration with the others. We also don’t want to be a melting pot, however, where each culture loses its distinctive flavor. If you mix a hundred different paint colors together, you end up with a dull gray. We want the church to be like beef stew, where each element retains its basic consistency but “flavors” the others, too. That’s cheeky, for sure, but it helps us picture what racial diversification might look like in a local body.

J.D. Greear

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Salad	12	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3		-(up to)
4	lg	Red delicious apples; cored; sliced, and cut into chunks
4		King-size Snickers candy bars; cut into 1/2" cubes
1	ct	(8-oz) Cool Whip (or 12-oz. if you like more fluff)

INSTRUCTIONS

From:    Julie Sterchi <sterchi@WABASH.NET>
Date:    Sun, 18 Aug 1996 00:29:02 -0700
Fold apple chunks and Snickers cubes into Cool Whip.  Garnish with a fan of
thin apple slices.  Serve immediately; the apple juice breaks down the Cool
Whip after awhile, so don't make this ahead of time.  (This may sound
weird, but it's delicious! It kind of reminds me of nut-covered caramel
apples from the county fair. Kids absolutely love this recipe.)
EAT-L Digest 17 August 96
From the EAT-L recipe list.  Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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