On Coffee-Sipping in the Sanctuary
Ask Pastor John
Desiring God
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🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It was called a brew ha ha and it started because you decided to tweet about coffee |
| 0:09.2 | Pastor John coffee on September 30th you posted a quote from Hebrews of course on 1228 is no joke. It's an anti-joke actually a very serious text that raises questions |
| 0:25.8 | about the tone of our Sunday gatherings. Hebrew 1228 says this, quote, let us offer to God |
| 0:31.3 | acceptable worship with reverence and awe." |
| 0:37.0 | And then he followed that text with a comment. |
| 0:39.6 | An open question is what it was, not a statement, just an open question, quote, |
| 0:44.0 | can we reassess whether Sunday coffee sipping in this sanctuary fits? |
| 0:51.0 | A provocative question for sure, especially here in the States where |
| 0:55.1 | Sunday mornings can be a pretty casual experience in a lot of churches. |
| 0:58.8 | Your tweet very quickly got loved and it got hated and it got spread all over the internet |
| 1:06.8 | like things tend to do that are both loved and hated and after a couple of weeks it had a |
| 1:11.2 | thousand retweets, 1500 comments, 3,000 likes, 2.7 million views |
| 1:16.9 | and sparked feature articles from Fox News here in the States and the Daily mail in the United Kingdom. |
| 1:23.6 | I didn't see any of that. |
| 1:26.2 | I did not see one retweet. |
| 1:28.7 | I follow my hundred people. |
| 1:30.8 | And those people are all nice people. So this was all news to me when people said, have you seen what happened to you |
| 1:38.0 | to me? |
| 1:39.0 | I have not seen anything. |
| 1:41.0 | Nor to this moment, have I? So what you're saying is I'm taking your word for it. |
| 1:46.0 | All right, well all of that is true. I mean thousands of people loved what you said online too. |
| 1:52.0 | Just to be clear, thousands. At least as many people |
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