Apart from our union with Christ every effort to imitate Christ, no matter how noble and inspired at the outset, inevitably leads to legalism and spiritual defeat. But once you understand the doctrine of union with Christ, you see that God doesn’t ask us to attain to what we’re not. He only calls us to accomplish what already is. The pursuit of holiness is not a quixotic effort to do just what Jesus did. It’s the fight to live out the life that has already been made alive in Christ.

Kevin DeYoung

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Grains			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4		Sq semisweet chocolate
2		Sticks butter
1	c	Flour
1 1/2	c	Sugar
4		Eggs
1	c	Chopped nuts
1	ts	Vanilla

INSTRUCTIONS

Melt chocolate and butter. Mix butter mixture, flour, sugar and eggs. Stir
in vanilla and nuts. Fill muffin tins about 2/3 full and bake at 350* for
25    min.
Posted to Bakery-Shoppe Digest V1 #443 by [email protected] (Shawn
Zehnder Lea) on Dec 8, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“Gratitude is our ability to see the grace of GOD, morning by morning, no matter what else greets us in the course of the day.”

Neither can we say the disciples were “seeker sensitive.” In Luke 10:10-16 Christ gave seventy of His most faithful followers specific instructions to symbolically “shake the dust from their feet” as a rebuke to those who do not accept the gospel. He doesn't tell them to try a different method, revise their message, or buddy-up to the people in an effort to win them over. Instead they were to do exactly as Christ had commanded, preaching the gospel He had declared and ministering in His name, no matter what the result. And what about Paul? Hear again Galatians 1:10: “For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.” Instead of seeking to be a people-pleaser, the true disciple, and thus the true worshipper, mirrors Christ's uncompromising zeal to please the Father.

Bill Izard