The Rudder

Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a seseme seed bun. What a mouthful, literally.

I am getting an education here at Coffee College. Sizes, quality grade, percentage of craked or chipped beans, smell, feel in the mouth, taste, (I guess taste would be important). After roasting, are there any cracks, did all the moisture get expunged? Is the bag doing it's job of letting the gas escape while not letting in air that would spoil the batch?

I can tell you all about the Big Mac I can tell you all about the coffee. Until you experience both all the knowledge in the world is worthless until an action is taken. What is that action? That's right, I have to taste, smell, chew, swallow, burp and fart sometimes, to get the understanding and reality of a Big Mac and a daily grind. Experience is the key.

Josh McDowell once said "Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to McDonald's makes you a Big Mac"

Revelation 3:15-17 (New Living Translation)

15 "I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other! 16 But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth! 17 You say, 'I am rich. I have everything I want. I do not need a thing! "And you do not realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

Ouch! 1 Corinthians 13:1-4 (New Living Translation)

1 Corinthians 13
Love Is the Greatest
1 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but did not love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but did not love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even Sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; [a] but if I did not love others, I would have gained nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud

Carnal Christian is a term created in the 60's or 70's. Can not find it in my bible. The story of the sheep and the goats, I do find. Denying self taking up the cross and following Christ I get.

He's either Lord of all, or not Lord at all.

The longer I'm down here in a third world nation, the clearer the picture of just how spoiled and comfortable we are with our Country Club churches and the thorns of life choking and paralizing us to really follow the new commandment. To love God with all our hearts minds and souls and to love our neighbor.