I am not asking if your church offers coffee, but does it offer expresso, latte, etc? Wondering how widespread this is, and how it is correlated to city/rural.
Poll Results
Does your church have a coffee bar?
I live in a city or near a city and Yes. Votes: 2
I live in a rural area and Yes Votes: 2
I live in a city or near a city and No. Votes: 13
I live in a rural area and No. Votes: 5
We do not have one but are considering one. Votes: 2
Coffee is of the devil. Votes: 0
Coffee bars are for the snobby crowd and I find them repulsive. Votes: 1
I have drunk too much coffee today and feel too wound to answer. :) Votes: 2
Other Votes: 1
Discussion
NewCoffee Bar...
I definitely wouldn’t mind getting better coffee than we have at our church, but I certainly can’t imagine the need for a full coffee bar. We have both Starbucks/Caribou a couple miles away, and if you are not that snobby, even McD’s has better than average coffee/lattes/etc. (certainly better than 90% of the church coffee I’ve had), and they are even closer.
Most Sundays, my wife and I bring our own coffee anyway. Better (and cheaper) than buying coffee, and way better than coffee brewed at church!
I don’t think we’ve ever had a visitor comment that any problem with us was due to bad coffee!
Dave Barnhart
NewNo ... my wife brings coffee for our ABF
No … my wife brings coffee for our ABF
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NewMy wife
makes HSBC’s after am service coffee. It’s pretty good stuff. Mind you, Hamilton Square BC is in downtown San Francisco. So our members and visitors know their coffee. Though, as a team, we try to serve a decent cup of (humor on)fundamentalist(humor off) Joe, not some frou frou stuff.
Hoping to shed more light than heat..
NewYou forgot the "Coffee is
You forgot the “Coffee is vile and I wouldn’t drink it to save my own life” option.
Newjosh p wrote:
NewYou might be in violation of a clause of the doctrinal statement
That’s because if you choose that option, you clearly can’t belong in fundamentalism, so you shouldn’t be reading this! :)
Although, given many church coffees I have tried, I might be tempted to say “THAT coffee is vile and I wouldn’t drink it to save my own life!”
Dave Barnhart
NewMy favorite comment on coffee
“If the sea of Galilee had been made of this, anyone could have walked on it!”
"Some things are of that nature as to make one's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache." John Bunyan
NewCoffee comments
Ron, that’s pretty good! At my previous church, we had a fellowship at one older lady’s home, and she usually made very strong coffee. The pastor, after tasting it, said “That’s like drinking a cigarette!”
Dave Barnhart
NewSort of
It might be a stretch to call what we have a coffee bar…. but it’s close. There’s a little island with a really nice coffee maker w/multiple outlets and a cappuccino machine next to that, along w/all the stuff people seem to want to put in their coffee. (Personally, I like coffee that just tastes like coffee and have no desire to add stuff to it—unless it’s just bad coffee!)
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
NewAgreed
Yup. *Good* coffee tastes just fine all by itself with no adulteration necessary.
Dave Barnhart
NewYou're all crazy
A bag of Scottish Breakfast tea are all I need on Sunday mornings. :D
"Our task today is to tell people — who no longer know what sin is...no longer see themselves as sinners, and no longer have room for these categories — that Christ died for sins of which they do not think they’re guilty." - David Wells
NewBag of tea...
Of course, it would be the Scots that would drink tea out of a bag! Is that bag perchance also made out of a sheep’s stomach? :)
Dave Barnhart