the best of the best of the best (because of Jesus)

…If Jesus is anywhere near what we’re up to, then it’s going to be the very best possible, nothing held back, top-notch, and beyond good. That’s just how our Savior rolls.

There’s been some serious cooking going on at Maul-Hall this weekend.

Not that great food is a rarity around here. Fact is, we’re doing our best to be good stewards of the amazing new kitchen. I may be still learning my way around the space, but some genuinely fine dining experiences have been making their way to the counter in recent weeks.

This weekend it’s been a whole other experience. Rebekah put her baking on and she spent the entire evening Friday “bringing it” by the way of angel biscuits and chocolate chip cookies.

The angel biscuits are her grandmother’s recipe. Melt in your mouth amazing. She made enough for Thanksgiving, a few family dinners, and the church officer party that will have Maul-Hall hopping Sunday evening.

BETHLEHEM: The cookies aren’t even for us (which is probably just as well). WFPC will be hosting some 3,000 visitors for Walk Through Bethlehem December 5-7 and we’re hooking each and every one of them up with cider, coffee, and all manner of good cookies.

“I’ll grab three boxes of extra-chewey Chips Ahoy at the store,” I said.

“These are our guests,” Rebekah countered; “I’m going to make twice that many from scratch.”

Well I do understand where she’s coming from. It’s a “Gospel” thing. It’s a “Jesus provided wine that was better than anything they’d ever tasted before” thing. It’s about the fact that if Jesus is anywhere near what we’re up to, then it’s going to be the very best possible, nothing held back, top-notch, and beyond good. That’s just how our Savior rolls.

So we’re going to tell the story of Bethlehem, and we’re going to share the Good News of the Gospel of Love with the community, and it’s going to be the best possible offering we can manage – even down to the home-made cookies.

And we’re going to live. We’re going to live faith out loud. And we’re going to let the world know that, if Jesus is anywhere near who we are, and what we do, and who we are becoming, then watch out, hold on, jump back Jack, because we are going to be the very best that we can possibly be. That’s our calling; that’s what it means to follow Jesus; that’s jus how we roll.