Name: Fruit Dip
Ingredients: 1 pk (8 oz) cream cheese, softened; 1 Jar (7-8 oz) marshmallow creme (marshmallow fluff to some); 1/8 ts Ground ginger

The church is the new covenant community – “This cup is the new covenant in my blood” (Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11:25) – we say when we take communion. The new covenant is the spiritual work of God to put His Spirit within us, write the law on our hearts, and cause us to walk in His statutes. It is a spiritually authentic community. Unlike the old covenant community it is defined by true spiritual life and faith. Having these things is what it means to belong to the Church. Therefore to give the sign of the covenant, baptism, to those who are merely children of the flesh and who give no evidence of new birth or the presence of the Spirit or the law written on their heart or of vital faith in Christ is to contradict the meaning of the new covenant community and to go backwards in redemptive history.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	pk	(8 oz) cream cheese, softened
1		Jar (7-8 oz) marshmallow creme (marshmallow fluff to some)
1/8	ts	Ground ginger

INSTRUCTIONS

Mix all ingredients together until well blended. Serve with chunks of fresh
fruit. This is especially good with sliced apples and fresh strawberries.
Posted to EAT-L Digest 25 Sep 96
From:    "Sharon H. Frye" <shfrye@PEN.K12.VA.US>
Date:    Thu, 26 Sep 1996 07:12:08 EDT

A Message from our Provider:

“Most people want to serve God, but only in an advisory position.”

If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in the slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

C.S. Lewis