Home Economics was one of my favorite classes in high school. This was not very cool, liking Home Economics during the midst of the Woman's Liberation Movement. But I enjoyed everything about it. I liked making pudding from scratch. I liked eating a homemade snack during school. Most of all, I liked the biscuits.

Biscuits are both simple and hard to make. Simple because they only have five common ingredients. Hard because you have to use the right combination of ingredients, and mix them gently, in order to produce perfect biscuits.

It occured to me this week that faith in Christ is like Baking Powder Biscuits. We need the right ingredients and need them in a good combination. What are the ingredients? Perhaps belief is the flour, experience is the salt, worship is the shortening, study of the Word is the milk and Christ himself is the all-important baking powder that makes the whole mess rise.

We need all the ingredients for faith to be made perfect. Sometimes we err on the side of too much of a good thing. We focus on the worship, but don't have truth. We look to our experience, the salt, and focus on that, instead of belief, which is the primary ingredient. Or, we try to rush the whole process by not allowing the dough time to set, or the stove time to preheat, or the biscuits time to cook into their brown and yummy goodness.

What are the simple ingredients that make your faith good enough to eat?