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Many churches are installing new church coffee shops and upgrading their existing coffee shops. And they are also focusing on serving good coffee or a better coffee than the run of the mill second hand office coffee so many churches have served for years. And the good news is most of them having improved the coffee they are serving. Or many churches have added a coffee shop as the mainstay in their gift shop. Now, forgetting your coffee cup before service is like leaving your Bible at home. While the rest of the people sitting near you enjoy their gourmet coffee, you sit there missing your coffee even more as you take in the aroma of the coffee around you.
And churches are using anything they can to draw more people, especially the younger crowd. And the coffee will keep them from clapping at the wrong time or sending each other inappropriate hand signals and gestures. Soon expect the ushers to bring coffee canisters with them while they are passing around the offering plates." Sorry - I don't have change for that twenty but I can top off your cup. So sorry we are only topping off regular - the decaf and creamer are up front by the alter. Do you mind grabbing some sweet and low for Sister Carol while she is stuck behind the piano."
Churches setting up their coffee shops have wanted them to become gathering places for their member to share - places to build fellowship. Since it usually takes 30 minutes to sip down a great cup of coffee it's a great place to share. And since you are sitting in God's house it's a natural place to build fellowship to honor God. As you sip the coffee remember this: "Deut 6:5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Build your fellowship on this premise.
Unfortunately many of the coffee shops have upgraded their coffee by serving Starbucks Coffee, a decent coffee but a coffee that in no way honors God. Here is a quote from the cups they hand customers - "Why in moments of crisis do we ask God for strength and help? As cognitive beings, why would we ask something that may well be a figment of our imaginations for guidance? Why not search inside ourselves for the power to overcome? After all, we are strong enough to cause most of the catastrophes we need to endure." So for the last few months Starbucks has stood behind their coffee cup saying - endorsed it fully.
People have the right to say what they want. Starbucks is free to say what they want. Even if it does not honor God. Churches are different. They should honor God in all they do. Serving Starbucks coffee is an endorsement of Starbucks and their cup sayings. How does it honor God? If you as a church say I am stretching the limits - then serve your coffee in the Starbucks cups. See how much fellowship is built as your congregation rallies against you.
So churches - I ask you to take the Starbuck challenge. If you are going to honor Starbucks by serving their coffee - serve it in these cups: "Why in moments of crisis do we ask God for strength and help? As cognitive beings, why would we ask something that may well be a figment of our imaginations for guidance? Why not search inside ourselves for the power to overcome? After all, we are strong enough to cause most of the catastrophes we need to endure."
Sort of like which master are you serving and glorifying when you serve Starbucks? Instead your church sale a Fair Trade Coffee or one of the charities sponsored coffee. Turn your coffee into a mission funding avenue or service project outreach source of funds - have it honor God and your curch.
Boake Moore founded a non profit company called Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee - http://www.missiongrounds.com/ourphilosophy.php - It donates all its profits and proceeds to helping children. We currently are building schools in rural China, orphanages in South America; and orphans in Russia and Africa. Helping homeless children in the United States.
Lets make the world better -
"Boake" Moore
Mission Grounds
http://www.missiongrounds.com
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