SERMON | Coffee

B-Sides
Scripture: Matthew 6:10
“Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”

Questions
What?
1) How do you take your coffee? And if you don't drink coffee, what is your beverage of choice?
2) Who do you want to have coffee with (dead or alive)? What questions might you ask them?

So What?
3) What is the longest time you have sat with someone over a cup of coffee? What kept the conversation going?
4) What does “God’s Kingdom” look like to you?

Now What?
5) Every time you take a sip of coffee, you are entering a long supply chain that begins in Ethiopia, Columbia, or elsewhere. Have you ever considered this? Does this change the way you live your life here?
6) Dawn talks about the slow process of making coffee, and the intentionality that echoes all throughout what DOWNTOWN CHURCH tries to do. Do you find yourself slowing down or speeding up? Are you leaving room for the Holy Spirit to meet you and others around cups of coffee?

Prayer
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily cups of hospitality. Help us to share our meals and beverages with others. Forgive us from our selfishness, and help us to forgive those who are hardest to love. Lead us not into isolated silos, but encourage us to sit down with strangers and friends, to listen more than we speak, and to passionately love more than we remain apathetically silent. For this is your kingdom, and your glory, forever and ever. Thank you for letting us be a part of it. Amen.

"Our church grows one cup of coffee at a time, one conversation at a time, one person at a time."
—Rev. Dawn Hyde