Coffee and bullets: Two types of takers
Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by Brett in Wrk
It started with Myspace, escalated with Facebook, and has peaked with Twitter. I’m talking about the friend landgrab–the race on social networking sites for the most friends or followers or buddies or sidekicks or whatever they’re called. These websites provide what our insecure souls crave–tangible and numerical confirmation that we’re…
Cool.
But as I scan my friend list like an Outback menu, I wonder how much depth is really there. How many of these people do I really know? Of 1000 facebook friends, how many know my struggles? How much real community is taking place on Twitter?
It feels like everyone is trying to amass an army of “followers” who would take them out for coffee. But I think we ought to be more concerned with how many would take a bullet for us instead.
Taking out to coffee vs. taking a bullet for us…hmm.
Churches full of coffee-takers don’t change the world. Businesses that create coffee-takers don’t thrive. Individuals surrounded by coffee-takers feel empty and shallow.
Jesus preached to the coffee-takers but he spent the majority of His time with the bullet-takers–12 men who he discipled with a holy intensity. He lived with these men–walking across deserts, fishing, sitting around the campfire. The disciples’ proximity to Jesus forged a canyon-deep love for him. It was those twelve men who went out and spread the Gospel and it eventually cost most of them their lives.
Focus your time and attention on loving and serving the people right in front of you so intensely that they would take a bullet for you if the opportunity came up.
Screw the coffee.
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Bethany S.
11. Nov, 2009
love this
Anna Armstrong
11. Nov, 2009
Great perspective…Booster matches up so closely with this. I truly believe that most, if not all, of you guys would take a bullet for one another. How awesome is that??
Erin
11. Nov, 2009
What kind of bullet are we talking about here…like a “bb” or a “hollow point”? I jest…great stuff…thanks as always.
Charity
11. Nov, 2009
wow…love it!
Lynneth
11. Nov, 2009
Yes! I completely agree!! that is the truth and what actually matters! , screw the coffee!!!!
awesome,awesome,awesome!!
Jody B
12. Nov, 2009
Thanks so much for the encouragement…hope you are doing really well Brett!
Denny
12. Nov, 2009
I love the last comment. Made me laugh. Ive always seen it as referring to people as friends and buddies. One of my uncles who fought in Vietnam told me that friends there were someone you rarely talked to or less often cared about and buddies were someone you looked after all the time and always asked how they were…someone you “lay on a grenade for”. You are my buddy Mr. Trapp. Good post. Keep it up..
Guy Walker
13. Nov, 2009
Dude I don’t even drink coffee.
You have a good point. it aint about who is the coolest.