Name: Green Olive-Cucumber Salad
Ingredients: 1 pk Lime-flavored gelatin; 3oz.; 1 c Water; hot; 1/2 c Water; cold; 1 ts Lemon juice; 1 ts Lemon rind; grated; 1 ts Onion; grated; 1/2 ts Salt; 1 md Cucumber; peeled and chopped; 1/3 c Green olives; onion-stuffed

But imagine this church: It is huge and is still numerically growing. People like it. The music is good. Whole extended families can be found within its membership. The people are welcoming. There are many exciting programs, and people are quickly enlisted into their support. And yet, the church, in trying to look like the world in order to win the world, has done a better job than it may have intended. It does not display the distinctively holy characteristics taught in the New Testament. Imagine such an apparently vigorous church being truly spiritually sick, with no remaining immune system to check and guard against wrong teaching or wrong living. Imagine Christians, knee-deep in recovery groups and sermons on brokenness and grace, being comforted in their sin but never confronted. Imagine those people, made in the image of God, being lost to sin because no one corrects them. Can you imagine such a church? Apart from the size, have I not described many of our American churches?

Mark Dever

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables		Salads, Vegetables	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	pk	Lime-flavored gelatin; 3oz.
1	c	Water; hot
1/2	c	Water; cold
1	ts	Lemon juice
1	ts	Lemon rind; grated
1	ts	Onion; grated
1/2	ts	Salt
1	md	Cucumber; peeled and chopped
1/3	c	Green olives; onion-stuffed

INSTRUCTIONS

Dissolve gelatin in hot water.  Add cold water, lemon juice, lemon rind,
onion, and salt.  Chill until slighlty thickened. Fold in cucumber and
olives. Pour into a 1-quart mold and chill until firm.
SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine, June, 1974. Typed for you by Nancy
Coleman.

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“Times change, God doesn’t.”

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