Adventures in the Kitchen
I came upstairs last night and found my daughter eating pizza rolls for a pre-bedtime snack. And then I noticed she was dipping them in something. "What do you have there?" I innocently asked. "Ketchup!" she said with a smile. When she noticed the strange look I gave her, she smiled even bigger and said, "It's great! Try it!"
No thanks. Pizza rolls can sometimes hit the spot...but dipped in ketchup? It's always an adventure with Rachel. I'm never quite sure what combinations she's going to come up with. One of her friends told her that dipping french fries into your frozen custard at Culver's is tasty. She says it is. I've not tried that, either. And she comes up with other...unique...combinations in our kitchen. Some of them are good. Some...well, it was a good try.
But more often than not, the combinations she comes up with are good. They do work out. Things I wouldn't have thought to put together end up complementing each other just fine. It's the same in the church, very often. Last night, we had our pre-membership class, and it's always very exciting and interesting to see who comes, and to see people make connections. With three worship services, it's very easy in our church for people to attend the same church (sometimes for years!) and never meet each other. Our gatherings like last night are one attempt to mix people up, put combinations together you wouldn't expect...and see what happens.
And even when you look out over the larger church...there are combinations you wouldn't expect, personalities that come together that shouldn't work out well—and yet God does a wonderful work, a miracle (that's sort of God's business), and voila, a tasty and wonderful combination. Out of the most unexpected places, God does some wonderful things, using all sorts of people and all sorts of places to bring people closer to him.
I mean, really...shepherds? Who would have expected them to be evangelists? And Bethlehem? Sure, it was once the home of King David, but really? Nothing much has come from there lately. And Magi? Wealthy stargazers from a land far away? Who would expect God to use those pagans to announce the birth of his son. And yet, look at your Nativity set—a baby, a poor couple, a few animals, shepherds, Magi, angels...and Bethlehem. Maybe one of the most unique combinations the world has ever seen, and still they are being used to tell the good news. God does miraculous things in the mist of the most amazing combinations.
But I'm still not dipping my pizza rolls in ketchup.
No thanks. Pizza rolls can sometimes hit the spot...but dipped in ketchup? It's always an adventure with Rachel. I'm never quite sure what combinations she's going to come up with. One of her friends told her that dipping french fries into your frozen custard at Culver's is tasty. She says it is. I've not tried that, either. And she comes up with other...unique...combinations in our kitchen. Some of them are good. Some...well, it was a good try.
But more often than not, the combinations she comes up with are good. They do work out. Things I wouldn't have thought to put together end up complementing each other just fine. It's the same in the church, very often. Last night, we had our pre-membership class, and it's always very exciting and interesting to see who comes, and to see people make connections. With three worship services, it's very easy in our church for people to attend the same church (sometimes for years!) and never meet each other. Our gatherings like last night are one attempt to mix people up, put combinations together you wouldn't expect...and see what happens.
And even when you look out over the larger church...there are combinations you wouldn't expect, personalities that come together that shouldn't work out well—and yet God does a wonderful work, a miracle (that's sort of God's business), and voila, a tasty and wonderful combination. Out of the most unexpected places, God does some wonderful things, using all sorts of people and all sorts of places to bring people closer to him.
I mean, really...shepherds? Who would have expected them to be evangelists? And Bethlehem? Sure, it was once the home of King David, but really? Nothing much has come from there lately. And Magi? Wealthy stargazers from a land far away? Who would expect God to use those pagans to announce the birth of his son. And yet, look at your Nativity set—a baby, a poor couple, a few animals, shepherds, Magi, angels...and Bethlehem. Maybe one of the most unique combinations the world has ever seen, and still they are being used to tell the good news. God does miraculous things in the mist of the most amazing combinations.
But I'm still not dipping my pizza rolls in ketchup.
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