Stew

A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy.

We all get stew. Toss the ingredients of your choice into a pot and cook it. After a few generations, your family's stew recipe may become famous. Everyone may clamor for the ingredients to old Grandma' Smith's stew.

But this is not the only stew, nor is it the only way to make it. One might insist that this is the only real stew, but then one would be wrong.

And so it is with Christianity. There are over 33,000 different denominations, each with their own stew recipe. They hand pick certain scriptures and traditions and cook them in a pot. Then they insist that their doctrine stew is the only right one.

Hogwash.

Just because your family, your pastor and your predecessors insisted that their particular doctrinal stew was correct does not mean that it is. In fact, people refusing to accept any other views is just plain silly.

So each of us must pick and choose what we will believe. Or we can join the rising ranks of those who choose "none of the above."

Personally, I only want one thing in the pot. Love.

I don't need a complicated stew. I am totally happy with consuming and giving love. I can do it every day. Let others fight over opinions of the second coming, spiritual gifts and social issues. I don't want to fight. I just want to love.

Nothing else matters.

What is in your pot of stew???

It's a beautiful day in God's world, be sure to see the good.

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