Do you need coffee to be in a good mood on this edition of Truth and Love?

I'm Heath Lambert, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified

Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions

for the problems that people face. I'm on the road this week, and I'm talking to you through

the phone, but wanted us to discuss on the podcast a really important issue, the issue of coffee.

And we've all heard it. Don't talk to me. I haven't had my coffee yet. Or I can't get

started unless I've had three cups of coffee or six cups of coffee or you pick the number.

We live in a culture that loves coffee, but we also live in a culture that often feels like we

need coffee. Amy Evanson, the producer of Truth and Love, is with us

this week to ask us some questions about that. Amy? Yeah, Heath, so statistics show that at least

68 million Americans consume three cups of coffee a day, and over 21 million Americans drink

six or more cups of coffee a day.

Caffeine is a drug that is addictive and is suggested to be the most widely used

stimulant in the world. Given these stats and for coffee drinkers around the world,

is caffeine addiction something Christians need to be concerned about?

Yeah, it is. The Bible says in 1st Corinthians 6th, well, that all things are lawful for me, but not all things

are helpful.

All things are lawful for me, but I will not be dominated by anything.

This is the Bible here balancing two things. the one hand the Bible talks about our freedom all

things are lawful for me Paul says twice we are free to do anything that is not sinful and the

Bible tells us what's sinful and what's not and the Bible does not say it's a sin to drink coffee or that it's a sin to have caffeine.

And so we are free on the one hand.

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