Revival Grill

Lina brought this grill (reasonable facsimile) into our marriage from her life as a a condo-dwelling swinging single girl in the New York City Metro area. As you can tell, it is hardly one of those grills the size and power of a nuclear plant. It is more like a 9 volt battery. Yet, when working, it did the job.

However, ever since we got married, the grill has become less and less hot. The rectangular burner with rounded ends only had propane coming out of about 40% of the holes. I have little mechanical aptitude and even less patience for things that don't work because they aptly display my ineptitude. Yet, I also don't like to waste money.

Thus, the other day, I decided to disassemble the unit to scrub the burners with a combination of vinegar and soap. That improved matters. Then, I shot water through the burner at a high pressure for about ten minutes turning the burner into a sprinkler system. The end result...we have about 80% of the holes operational. 80% is good enough. The barbecue works, meat and veggies get grilled, and we save two hundred dollars on a replacement.

As I went around the burner and lit the holes one by one, I though about revival. For some reason, I had to do it individually the first time around. Each hole is a person. On-fire people together in the church are as a hot barbecue in the best sense. Not everyone needs to be on fire but it does need to get to a critical mass in order for revival to get fired up. The aroma of Christ wafts out of the church into the olfactory senses, their spiritual noses, of those who God is calling to dinner.

2 Cor 2:15

For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.

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