One final time we dip back into the online controversy into the brew ha ha as it was called

Pastor John in September 30th.

He tweeted about coffee, posted Hebrews 1228,

which says, let us offer to God acceptable worship

with reverence and awe.

And in light of that reverent vision for our worship, he posted this open question to all of us,

quote, can we reassess whether Sunday coffee sipping in the tweet

tweet was loved, the tweet was hated.

The tweet was spread all over the internet to the point that after a couple of weeks

it had over a thousand

retweets, 1500 comments, 3,000 likes, 2.7 million views and

feature articles online from Fox News and the Daily Mail.

None of what you saw.

That tweet led to this little series on the podcast in part one in APJ 2011.

You got to the crux, saying, quote,

the heart of the matter is not the coffee mug in hand

it's the absence of kind of experience with God that would make a Christian soul long

for regular encounters with God and his people that are so profoundly satisfying in the depth of their

being with His Majesty and his sweetness and the seriousness of their joy and

the weightiness of his glory that a coffee mug would simply feel strangely out of place."

That was in part one in A.P.J. 2011, and then last time you dropped into the nitty gritty with five appeals to preachers

on how to move a casual church towards a more reverent and more deeply satisfying encounter with God on more on Sunday mornings requires more than just sermons, right? We've talked about

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