Nine-bean Soup – We Love God!

AA has been helpful for many people. It provides accountability, mutual understanding in an environment that doesn’t judge and wonderful support for many people. It does not, however, strive to find distinctively biblical answers to the problems of life. As a result, it is bound to have some problems: 1. Its disease model doesn’t really let anyone get to the heart of the matter… When we examine our hearts, we find is that the greatest danger is that we are hooked on ourselves… This means that even if I give up alcohol, unless I deal head on with my biggest problem, I will never truly find freedom. I will just find something else to serve my desires. 2. Its theory of change does not reveal the against-God nature of the addictive behavior. Even though we are not always consciously aware that our addictions are disobedient before God, the reality is that they are. 3. Jesus is optional. If it is true that addictive behavior is rebellion against divine authority, then addicts have no hope but to run to Jesus for forgiveness, cleansing, and power.

Edward Welch

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains		Soup	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Mixed dried beans, packaged
		9-bean or 15-bean
1	qt	Water
1	lb	Sausage, sliced
1		Onion, chopped
1		Clove garlic, minced
1	t	Salt
1		16-oz tomatoes with juice
1		16-oz Rotel tomatoes with
		green chiles

INSTRUCTIONS

Wash beans. Soak in water overnight. Pour off water. Add all other
ingredients and simmer about 3-1/2 hours.  From a collection of my
mother's (Judy Hosey) recipe box which  contained lots of her favorite
recipes, clippings, etc.  Downloaded  from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

A Message from our Provider:

“Hell! . . . I’d forgotten about that!”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 515 Calories From Fat: 205 Total Fat: 23.1g Cholesterol: 90.6mg Sodium: 1762.8mg Potassium: 670.8mg Carbohydrates: 46.5g Fiber: 15.6g Sugar: 1.6g Protein: 32.8g

Those who have sidestepped (even inadvertently) the authority of a fully sufficient Bible have strayed in two opposite directions. The Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and authoritarian cults have wrongly given autonomy and final authority to the Church… At the other end of the spectrum are those who, in reaction to an authoritarian church, have skirted a fully sufficient Bible by giving autonomy and final authority to the individual’s conscience and reason. They assert that every believer has the unfettered right to interpret the Scriptures not only for himself but by himself. Interpretation, according to this view, is strictly an individual matter.

John Thompson