Whenever evangelicals have an experience of direct, personal access to God, we are tempted to think or act as if we can dispense with doctrine, sacraments, history, and all the other “superfluous paraphernalia” of the Church and make our experience the sum and soul of our faith. We are still attracted to movements that replace thinking and theology by other emphases relational, therapeutic, charismatic, and managerial (as in church growth). Whatever the other virtues of these movements and the unquestionable importance of piety, we must courageously repudiate anti-intellectualism for the sin it is.

Os Guinness

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy	Brazilian	Desserts, Brazilian r	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	cn	(14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
1	tb	Butter
3	tb	Powdered chocolate
		Chocolate sprinkles to coat brigadeiros.

INSTRUCTIONS

Stir together milk, chocolate and butter over medium heat until mixture
starts to leave the sides of the pan. It should look like a thick paste.
Let cool just long enough for you to be able to handle it. Shape into
walnut size balls and roll them in the chocolate sprinkles.
Happy Holidays!
Recipe by: Miriam Podcameni Posvolsky
Posted to EAT-L Digest  by Leon & Miriam Posvolsky <miriamp@POBOX.COM> on
Dec 14, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“Don’t wait for six strong men to take you to church.”

[Wrongly regarding church involvement]: Christians can think it’s fine to attend a church indefinitely without joining; Christians think of getting baptized apart from joining; Christians take the Lord’s Supper without joining; Christians view the Lord’s Supper as their own private, mystical experience for Christians and not as an activity for church members who are incorporated into body life together; Christians don’t integrate their Monday-to-Saturday lives with the lives of other saints; Christians assume they can make a perpetual habit of being absent from the church’s gathering a few Sundays a month or more; Christians make major life decisions (moving, accepting a promotion, choosing a spouse, etc.) without considering the effects of those decisions on the family of relationships in the church or without consulting the wisdom of the church’s pastors and other members; Christians buy homes or rent apartments with scant regard for how factors such as distance and cost will affect their abilities to serve their church; Christians don’t realize that they are partly responsible for both the spiritual welfare and the physical livelihood of the other members of their church, even members they have not met. When one mourns, one mourns by himself. When one rejoices, one rejoices by herself.

Jonathan Leeman