Is it in you?
I was feeling a little sluggish this morning so I treated myself to a grande no-fat latte, and all I can say is that is good coffee. See I am a 1 - 2 cup a day guy and usually I will drink the stuff that we make at work. Which is best described as liquid brown stuff. Hey I am not blaming anyone, but when you buy Folgers, you buy disgusting coffee, but I am not willing to shell out $4 a day for coffee. Free works, you get what you pay for. Anyways I have a Starbucks mug at work, so most mornings I pour the office coffee into the Starbucks mug and pray for a miracle. Maybe I don't have enough faith because there is no miracle, the coffee still tastes like liquid brown stuff. The Starbucks mug has no super powers, office coffee in a Starbucks mug is still office coffee. It doesn't matter what is on the outside but what is on the inside. Starbucks coffee would still taste great even if you poured into a "Roll up the Rim to Win" cup, as long as there was no Tim Horton's coffee left in there. Just a side note, I have decided that any unattended Tim Horton's cup is fair game whether there is coffee in there or not because Tim Horton's coffee is about the same as office coffee. I am still Canadian though, I can eat a box Timbits with the best of them.
In our faith journey's and ministries we can get into the Starbucks mug mentality. That what is on the outside is more important than the inside. People have been talking a lot about how we need to live out our faith and how we need to take care of the needy, those dying from AIDS.
I agree.
James 1:27 says Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
My question is what is our motivation, is it to fit in with the other Christians? Is this the new definition of living a good Christian life? Have we changed the definition of living a Christian life, from sin management to social concerns?
I wonder if we are getting close to taking God out of the equation again? Is it more important to look like a Christian or to be one?
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John 2
Jesus Changes Coffee to Starbucks
1On the third day an office meeting took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, 2and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the meeting. 3When the Starbucks was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more Starbucks."
4"Dear woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied, "My time has not yet come."
5His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."
6Nearby stood six Starbucks mugs, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial caffeinating, each holding from twenty to thirty ounces.[n]
7Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the mugs with coffee"; so they filled them to the brim.
8Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet."
They did so, 9and the master of the banquet tasted the coffee that had been turned into Starbucks. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the coffee knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10and said, "Everyone brings out the choice Starbucks first and then the cheaper Folgers after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now."
Well now that I've ruined some scripture, let me say that I completely agree with ya Greg. Being a disciple > being "christian" (small c intended).
Joel
You got a great Bible. Do they sell that one at Starbucks?
Yeah. I got an advance copy. Apparently they do special editing themselves, but I can't find any real differences between this and the NIV yet...
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