Joy and I pulled in the parking lot of Starbucks last night to get our drinks (J=Grande Java Chip Frap & T=Venti skinny vanilla latte). It was closed. And then I remembered... oh yeah... they closed down for training.
The company shut all stores across the nation at 5:30 p.m. to train 135,000 baristas to "perfect the art of espresso." The corporate memo on the closure noted that 12,600 seconds passed without a Starbucks serving coffee anywhere in the United States of America.
I think the church needs to close down for training from time to time. I just want to scream at the top of my lungs..."STOP" ...then gather as a group and talk about perfecting what we call "following Jesus" and how to express that to the entire world around us.
Perfecting espresso is good...taking time to perfect the art of expressing Jesus the way He intended us to live is even better.
Imagine...every Starbucks closed. No one was drinking Starbucks coffee for a few hours. But happened after that? There was a buzz in the media that Starbucks in NOW BETTER. The perfect espresso can be found at Starbucks...was the message sent out.
I long for my community to join us at First Assembly because there is a buzz around town that we are a church who knows how to offer an authentic Jesus experience and lifestyle.
May we learn the art of expression. We need to communicate a genuine, authentic life of following Jesus, belonging to an incredible community of friends, and serving the world with our hands and feet.
sip on that...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
closed...to get a buzz
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5 comments:
That is an awesome idea. I like your spin on it!
How do we apply it to the church? I know what a great idea starbucks does so it shouold the church but how do we go about training the church like that? Who get's trained in this way, the pastors, the core people, anyone from the community? As a church aren't we already suppose to be training our local body?
just some questions for deeper thought
We just found your blog and realized that we need to move on out of the dark ages to view the videos!!!! The "cousins" were laughing out loud to hear they were liked more than you, and the picture of grandpa under the sink was fitting for a man called "Fitter". This is really cool. I'm sure momemtum will come your way becuase you certainly are a guy I would hang with! Well, back to American Idol
it cost starbucks 7.5 million to do this
What if we give things to make people's life better and the Jesus thing naturally will come later.
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