Cheese Balls (baked) – We Love God!

Here is the great evangelical disaster – the failure of the evangelical world to stand for truth as truth. There is only one word for this – namely accommodation. The evangelical church has accommodated to the world spirit of the age. First, there has been accommodation on Scripture, so that many who call themselves evangelicals hold a weakened view of the Bible and no longer affirm the truth of all the Bible teaches – truth not only in religious matters but in the areas of science and history and morality… This accommodation has been costly, first in destroying the power of the Scriptures to confront the spirit of our age; second, in allowing the further slide of our culture. Thus we must say with tears that it is the evangelical accommodation to the world spirit around us, to the wisdom of this age, which removes the evangelical church from standing against the breakdown of our culture.

Francis Schaeffer

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy	Mexican	Appetizers, Cheese	18	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1		4 oz butter
3	c	Plain flour
8	oz	Cheddar cheese
8	oz	Packaged dates
	ds	Salt
		Pecan halves

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 375 deg F. Grate cheese. Melt butter; mix cheese and
butter. Add flour and salt, mix well. Pinch off a little bit of  dough.
Put one date half and one pecan half in center of pinched  dough and
wrap dough around them, forming a ball. Bake at 375 for 15  to 20
minutes. Appeared in Calling All Cooks, Vol. 1.  Recipe By     :  From:
Western Mexican Cookbook  File
ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/mmdja006.zip

A Message from our Provider:

“People are funny, they want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church.”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 276 Calories From Fat: 94 Total Fat: 10.7g Cholesterol: 26.8mg Sodium: 727.5mg Potassium: 151.7mg Carbohydrates: 39.6g Fiber: 2.1g Sugar: 8.1g Protein: 6.9g

Certainly, in Matthew 7:1, Jesus did forbid judging in one sense… But for now, note that if you read through that same gospel of Matthew, you’ll find that Jesus also clearly called us to rebuke others for sin, even rebuking them publicly if need be (Matt. 18:15-17; cf. Luke 17:3). Whatever Jesus meant by not judging in Matthew 7, He didn’t mean to rule out the kind of judging He mandated in Matthew 18… If you think about it, it is not really surprising that we as a church should be instructed to judge. After all, if we cannot say how a Christian should not live, how can we say how a Christian should live?

Mark Dever