JUNE 24 "PASSION, DRIVE & VISION"

Founded 1971, by Howard Schultz, with its first store at Pikes' Place Market in Seattle, now operates or licenses more than 8,000 retail coffee shops, know as Starbucks Coffee. Howard Schultz…Vision: Put a Starbucks in every city in the world. Working a minimum of 65 hrs per week! Howard Schultz has a vision; we see it coming to pass right before our eyes, in cities we live in all around the world. This is what Howard Schultz believes in and he has given his life to it. Christians for all we claim to believe and preach, the question remains, have we given ourselves to what we believe? If you look around, unlike Starbucks, we are not seeing the vision we preach, effectively actualized in the lives of those who claim it. Statistics shows that Churches who had the traditional 3 day services a week have had to shut down their Wednesday and Sunday evening services, simply because people are not coming. Where is our vision? A vision, a passion for something…it means we…Stay up late…It means, it saps our energy…It means, it saps our resources…It means, it intrudes on other obligations…It means….it takes precedence always! We can criticize a man for giving his life to coffee (and often do) but one thing we cannot fault Howard Schultz in; and that is…he has given his life to what he believes in, the question is…have you?

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