The Gospel According to Starbucks – Living with a Grande Passion, Leonard Sweet (This book has not been authorized by Starbucks Coffee Company
Brewed for Thought – The Gospel According to Starbucks – introduces the life you’d gladly stand in line for……you don’t stand in line at Starbucks just to buy a cup of coffee. You stop for the experience surrounding the cup of coffee…..
Too many of us line up for God out of duty or guilt. We completely miss the warmth and richness of the experience of living with God. If we’d learn to see what God is doing on earth, we could participate fully in the irresistible life that he offers.
You can learn to pay attention like never before, to identify where God is already in business right in your neighborhood. The doors are open and the coffee is brewing. God is serving the refreshing antidote to the unsatisfying, arms length spiritual life – and he won’t even make you stand in line.
Leonard Sweet shows you how the passion that Starbucks has for creating an irresistible experience can connect you with God’s stirring introduction to the experience of faith
Questions for Conversation with yourself and others by Edward Hammett –
The Brew of the Soul – Questions to stir the BREW, an acronym that stands for Being Real Engages the World. As you pursue a life of grande passion and EPIC faith, reflect on the personal meaning behind each word (Being Real Engages the World).
Being – Think about what it means fully into the person God made you to be:
1) Who do you want to be now?
2) What is creating who you are?
3) What distracts you from being all you can be?
4) What will move you from where you are to where God wants you to be?
Real – In being who God made you be, think about what it means to be real
5) How much of who you are now is who you want to be?
6) What is going on in you and through you that you are not proud of?
7) What would have to change in order for you to be more real?
8) What would make your life more pleasing to God?
9) What is the best version of yourself? How often do you see it?
Engages The – Think about the effect your life has
10) What places in your daily life intersect with your life mission
11) Who are the people in your path who fuel your life mission? Who are the ones who drain your life mission?
12) What do you want to do to achieve your life mission that you are not currently doing? What or who could help you do that right now?
World – Think about your life mission in terms of the people in your sphere of influence and the world that surrounds you.
13) How are you currently impacting the world you work in?
14) What impact are you having on your family? On your community?
15) Who specifically in your world needs encouragement, love, or hope
16) Where does your greatest passion intersect with the world’s greatest needs?
