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
Dairy		Breads	12	Scones

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Flour
1	ts	Baking powder
1/4	ts	Salt
4	tb	Butter
1/2	c	Currents
		About 5 tbs milk

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Grease a baking sheet. Sift flour with baking
powder and salt.  Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal.
Stir in currants and add enough milk to make a soft dough. Roll out dough
on a floured surface to a 1/2-inch thickness. Cut out 2-inch circles with a
biscuit cutter or glass, and place on a baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes,
or until well-risen and lightly browned. Serve hot, sliced crosswise, with
butter and jam.
Nutritional info per serving: 135 cal: 3g pro, 21g carb, 4g fat(29%)
Source: Miami Herald 3/21/96 Monet's Table by Claire Joyes (Simon and
Schuster)
formatted 3/24/96 by Lisa Crawford
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

“Forgiveness is not automatic”