Name: Dijon Party Dip
Ingredients: 1 c Sour cream OR Plain yogurt; 1/3 c Mayonnaise; 1/4 c Dijon mustard; 1 tb Finely-chopped green onion; Seasoned salt; Additional Dijon mustard

Here, then, is the crucial question which we have been leading up to. Have we ever opened our door to Christ? Have we ever invited Him in? This was exactly the question which I needed to have put to me. For, intellectually speaking, I had believed in Jesus all my life, on the other side of the door. I had regularly struggled to say my prayers through the key-hole. I had even pushed pennies under the door in a vain attempt to pacify Him. I had been baptized, yes and confirmed as well. I went to church, read my Bible, had high ideals, and tried to be good and do good. But all the time, often without realizing it, I was holding Christ at arm’s length, and keeping Him outside. I knew that to open the door might have momentous consequences. I am profoundly grateful to Him for enabling me to open the door. Looking back now over more than fifty years, I realize that that simple step has changed the entire direction, course and quality of my life.

John Stott

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Appetizers, Dips	1	Small bowl

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Sour cream OR Plain yogurt
1/3	c	Mayonnaise
1/4	c	Dijon mustard
1	tb	Finely-chopped green onion
		Seasoned salt
		Additional Dijon mustard

INSTRUCTIONS

Combine sour cream, mayonnaise, Dijon mustard and onion. Add seasoned salt
to taste. Chill at least 1 hour to blend flavours. Pour into serving bowl.
Garnish by swirling a small amount of mustard onto surface of dip. Serve
with an assortment of cut up fresh vegetables. Makes 1 1/2 cups (375mL) of
dip.
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The twentieth century was the century of the self. Almost all virtues, especially love, were reinterpreted to put the self at the center. This means that almost all people are saturated and shaped with the conviction that the essence of being loved as a human is being treasured or esteemed. That is, you love me to the degree that your act of treasuring terminates on me… If they ask, “Do you treasure me or do you treasure Christ?” I answer, “I treasure Christ, and, desiring to treasure Him more, I treasure your treasuring Christ.” Without the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit removing human self from the center, this will not satisfy American people. They are so saturated with self-oriented love that they can scarcely conceive what true Christian love is. True Christian love is not my making much of them, but my helping them to enjoy making much of God. This is love. If my treasuring terminates on them I play right into the hands of the devil and their own self-centered destruction. But if my treasuring terminates on God and their treasuring God, then I direct them to the one source of all joy. And that act of directing them to God, their hope and life and joy, is what love is.

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