Spicy Corn And Tomato Salad

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
	Italian		4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	t	Olive oil
1	T	Fat-free Italian dressing
1	T	Lemon juice
1	c	Thawed frozen corn
1		Tomato, finely chopped
2		Red chilli peppers, minced
2		Cloves garlic, minced
2	T	Snipped fresh flat leaf
		parsley

INSTRUCTIONS

To make dressing: Whish together oil, dressing and lemon juice.  To
assemble salad: combine corn, tomatoes, peppers, garlic and  parsley.
Pour dressing over vegetables, and toss to coat. Marinate  for 30
minutes. Serve at room temperature or very slightly chilled.  Per
serving: 56 calories, 1.7g fat (24% of calories), 0mg  cholesterol, 45
mg sodium, 0.6g dietary fiber. Posted to Digest  eat-lf.v097.n041 by
"William S. Grant, II" <wsgrant@artsci.wustl.edu>  on Feb 12, 1997.

A Message from our Provider:

“Man’s way leads to a hopeless end — God’s way leads to an endless hope.”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 157 Calories From Fat: 14 Total Fat: 1.5g Cholesterol: <1mg Sodium: 166.6mg Potassium: 228.8mg Carbohydrates: 34.7g Fiber: 1.5g Sugar: 3g Protein: 1.1g

Yes, we have a responsibility to vote! “When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when a wicked man rules, people groan” (Prov. 29:2). Because we do live in a republic where our voice counts (“We the people”), we need to know what is most important according to God’s will and determine the politician that best will uphold it. It’s impossible to say that religion and politics do not mix. Being “salt and light” does not exempt us from the political world. We should influence it. When Christians choose not to vote we open a vacuum to unrighteous legislation that now provides a greater opportunity for evil to thrive and be imposed on the will of the people, including ourselves and future generations. In the Bible, Joseph and Daniel heavily influenced governing leaders and it greatly benefitted God’s people. Likewise, we are called in Galatians 6:10 to “do good to all people.” Why would we want men and women in the office that will introduce and perpetuate unrighteousness in our society? With the blood-bought freedoms we enjoy as a country, thanks to our military heroes, we cannot sit back and refuse to exercise our rights only to further individuals in the office that will not submit to Divine Law or the Constitution.

Randy Smith