April 15th and 16th i attended a Baptist Emerging Leaders conference in Charlottesville, VA with Leonard Sweet. i found out that he REALLY loves coffee by stating he can drink 8 cups a day. i was definitely impressed! Anyways, during his session on evangelism, he told us about the "coffee verse" in Mark 16: 17-18, "These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues: they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them: . . ." Coffee and deadly poison, hmmm! i LOVE Leonard's sense of humour.
Yet, it shows how people can manipulate Scripture for their own devices/vices. Food, err coffee for thought!
