Starbucks Coffee

In August, Lori and I went to visit some friends (Jesse and Tamara) at Lake Toxaway, NC. They were on vacation visiting some friends (Jeff and Heather) that they went to college with. Turned out that their friends went to Fuller about the same time as I did and, although we didn't know them there, we had several mutual friends.

Anyway, they now are living in Columbia, SC and are planning on becoming missionaries to Sudan. They were in Charlotte looking into a missions organization yesterday and so they called us up and we met them at Starbucks for coffee.

We talked about a lot of different things: Sudan, Missionary Life, REVEAL, church in general, contemporary worship, and getting people plugged into church and using their talents. Interestingly enough, the quote on my cup directly spoke into what we were discussing.

The Way I See It #291

"In a world where celebrity equals talent, and where make-believe is called reality, it is most important to have real love, truth and stability in your life."Bernie Brillstein.

(Brillstein produced shows and movies such as Hee Haw, The Muppet Show, Saturday Night Live, The Blues Brothers, Ghostbusters, Dragnet, Ghostbusters II, Happy Gilmore, The Cable Guy, and The Sopranos.)

We discussed at length the notion that our generation is seeking out community. At Fuller, community was easy to come by because almost everyone was going through the same things. But for some reason, when you're out of the "school" culture, real life gets in the way.

At REVEAL, we want to create community. We want people to come and feel comfortable and be able to build friendships. We want to do life together. We want to build relationships with each other and with Jesus Christ. What we don't want to do is create more religion. Today's generation doesn't want more religion, what they want is more relationship, what they need is more relationship with Jesus Christ.

--Will