A few days before all the ruckus hit about the Starbucks
coffee cups, a friend informed me of it and asked me what I thought. I told her that it didn’t matter to me. This is a coffee shop that by no means has
ever professed to be a Christian company.
I said what would bother me more is if a Christian company deliberately
took Christmas out of advertisement, etc to appease the masses.
We’re not dealing with the flesh, we’re dealing with
spirits. There are good spirits, angels…
and bad spirits, demons and power and principalities. When we deal with people, this is what we’re
dealing with. Ephesians
6:12 I wasn’t trying to demonize
anyone, but rather trying to make a point.
Why should we expect
a “non-believing company” to follow Christian teaching? We shouldn’t.
To expect companies to be “Christian” when they’re not Christian is sort
of like legalism. When Christians…NO…
“Christians” attack others for not upholding our traditions of celebrating the
birth of our Savior, aren’t they being legalistic? It’s like telling someone that they need to
clean up their life before they approach God.
NONE of us can clean ourselves up.
Isaiah
64:6 Only God can clean us and make
us white as snow. Isaiah
1:18 A non Christian company trying
to appeal to the Christian community is no more a Christian company than a
person sitting in a garage is a car. It
doesn’t work that way. And, for the life
of me, I wonder just how long it’s going to take the church to understand this?
If we want to win the lost to the Lord, we have to make
ourselves available for the Lord to work through us. That…is a sacrifice. We have to walk along side people, loving
them, maybe even while they’re still in sin.
We need to be Jesus to them with the hope of winning them to the Kingdom of God
This supposed lashing out of Christians against Starbucks is
ridiculous. And, I’ve heard a lot of
people running their mouths about this.
Some are against the “plain red cup.” And, some are so “spiritually
superior” that they say they don’t even know
a Christian who is so selfish to speak that way.
Prayer!!
Prayer changes things!!
When are we, as the Church, going to understand that prayer
is the answer?
I have to tell you that it doesn’t bother me to drink my
coffee out of a plain red cup. I visit
Starbucks nearly every day. I do enjoy
the coffee, but anyone who knows me, knows that this is where my ministry
is. I will continue to have my coffee
here until the Lord leads me elsewhere.
God sends us to the lost and the broken because it’s His will that all
would be saved. 2
Peter 3:9, 1
Timothy 2:3-4 Are we too good to
reach out to the lost and broken? If we
are, I wonder if we’ve truly had a Christian conversion…or perhaps one is just
“playing church?”
Think about it folks.
Pray about it. Ask God how He
would react to this “red cup,” and then ask yourself how you should really respond.
If we want to change the world for the Kingdom of God
