Buffet

I absolutely love buffets. The choices! The food! All you can eat! You know, as I think about it, I usually only get just a few things off any buffet. I really don't like most of what is there, but I do like the all you can eat aspect. Buffet's are usually expensive, but I often brag that I get my money's worth in sheer volume (if you could see me you would know why). I like basic, simple foods. I really don't understand how others eat all that stuff offered on buffets, but I understand that there are so many ways to fill up, that whatever they eat is OK with me.

How many people do you know who feel the same way about their salvation? How many times hae you heard, "Well that's fine for you, but I believe..." Too often we encourage these beliefs in the name of religious tolerance or because we are afraid of being labeled as closed minded, or a bigot, or pious, or of thinking of ourselves as superior to others. Jesus said very plainly, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6. Anyone who preaches any salvation other than through Jesus is just wrong. Remember the exhortation of Paul to the Corinthians, "For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified." 1 Corinthians 2:2. For Christians, there simply is no debate. Paul encourages the Ephesians by reminding them that "there is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called— one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all." Eph 4:4-6.

Salvation is simple, not a smorgasborg - but it is still "all you can eat". Stuff yourself on the Truth!