Where's the beef?

People today are busy selling big fluffy buns for theology. I have to ask "Where's the beef?" This is a throw back to a generation before my time, although this remains a valid question.

Since I am cooking ground beef right now... If you really want to know where the beef is; its busy thawing so I thought I would blog. This beef I would venture to say has spent ages in the freezer. It needs to be brought out. It is needs to be served. It needs to be consumed. This is the same for theology and spiritual red meat that people have set aside in order to eat chicken. Or in order to eat preprepared food. There comes a time that one must cook for themselves. A time in which one must form their own spiritual convictions.

This is not the order of today but should be in some fashion. Red meat is not always bad. Christians need to get a little more zinc for their immune system. They need a little more iron for their strength. Christians are growing anemic without red meat.
Some try to avoid controversy. Some try to avoid the difficult areas of doctrine. Do not shy away from such if they are in the Word. Christians need to reconsider such adversion.

They have forgotten how to tenderize hard doctrine with important nuances. They have forgotten how to season it with grace as with salt. They believe it cooks in the flames of hell. Yet, they forget it is in the skillet on the stove, held in God's hand. We are not talking about damnable doctrine that rightly has fallen into the flames. We are talking about things that good christians disagreed on. I am taking about the doctrines of the reformation.


They aren't essential to be a christian but they may be important for one's health. First, the doctrines can be very bad if eatten raw. The cold interior is exactly that. It will put people off. It may even make them sick. It can be bland if they do not see the cross in them. We do not need dead orthodoxy either. The doctrines can be tough and hard to swallow when too well done. Especially when there is not enough understanding that it is from the actions of God and not some blind godless fate, that doesn't work for our good. Unlike chicken there is a difference in red meat when it comes to being well-seasoned, tenderized, and a range of being done. This does not mean we aught to avoid red meat. It just means we need to be all the more careful with it. Its ok if you don't eat it daily. God and the gospel is so much better. Yet, sometimes there is nothing more satisfying outside of God than biting into a juicy steak or hamburger that he created and ordained.