Name: Ensalada De Aguacate (Cuban Avocado Salad)
Ingredients: Watercress or lettuce; Leaves; The platter -- optional; 2 lg Florida avocados -- or 4; Haas; Peeled -- halved legthwise; And; Sliced; 1 sm Onion -- sliced vertically; Salt -- to taste; Fresh ground black pepper --; 1/2 c Pure spanish olive oil -- or; 3 tb White vinegar -- or fresh; Lemo; 1 ts Chopped parley -- finely; Chopp

Here are some things which must be done before one leaves a church: 1. We must check our motives very carefully. 2. Our reasons must be well grounded and clearly articulated. 3. We must be in regular, earnest prayer about the matter. 4. We must guard our tongues very carefully. 5. We must be extremely careful that we do not unnecessarily create unrest in other members. 6. Our discussions with the leadership must be characterized by love. 7. Our attempts to correct matters must be with great respect, care and patience. 8. If our concern is over personal preferences, rather than biblical matters, we must consider others’ interests more important than ours. 9. Great care should be taken that we submit to the leadership of the church, unless we determine with proper counsel that there is a serious biblical issue at stake. 10. If the leadership will listen, we need to give them plenty of time to consider the matter. 11. If the leadership will not listen to us, or will not take proper action to correct the matter and we are thoroughly convinced that there is a serious biblical issue, we should ask for a meeting of the church in which to express our concerns. 12. We should ask ourselves what we have personally done to correct any wrong or deficiency in the church with which we are concerned. 13. We should evaluate if our leaving would do harm to an otherwise good church. 14. We should never leave, nor encourage others to leave, unless we are thoroughly convinced that one or both of the following conditions exist: 1) that the church has become an apostate church (where serious unbiblical teaching or practices are allowed), or 2) that we are convinced that, over the long haul, we cannot find a place to serve in the church, or that our families will not be spiritually fed in that body.

Curtis Thomas

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables	Cuban	Salads, Vegetables	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

		Watercress or lettuce
		Leaves
		The platter — optional
2	lg	Florida avocados — or 4
		Haas
		Peeled — halved legthwise
		And
		Sliced
1	sm	Onion — sliced vertically
		Salt — to taste
		Fresh ground black pepper —
1/2	c	Pure spanish olive oil — or
3	tb	White vinegar — or fresh
		Lemo
1	ts	Chopped parley — finely
		Chopp

INSTRUCTIONS

Recipe by: Mary Urrutia's "Memories of a Cuban Kitchen" On a large platter
lined with the greens, arrange the avocado slices, place the onions on top,
and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Whisk together the oil and vinegar and
drizzle over the salad. Sprinkle with the parsley and serve.
Recipe By     :
From: El Charro Cafe Favorite Recipes
File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/mmdja006.zip

A Message from our Provider:

“Give Satan an inch and he’ll be a ruler.”

Being unified in a church means: We know the difference between enjoying our small group, but understanding that the church is one – not separated along the lines of many small groups. Between having personal priorities within the church, but not losing the one core overarching mission of the church. Between respecting politics, but not making the church political. Between having good friends, but not forming alliances in the church to the exclusion of others. Between having differing beliefs, but honoring the church’s doctrinal statement. Between having personal convictions, but not legalistically pressing them upon others. That’s how we stand together as one for the Gospel.

Randy Smith