Coffee for the Community
By: Rick Boxx
March 19, 2013

Many years ago, I was a founding board member of a Christian coffeehouse. We desired to bring the love of God to our community.

One of the practices we implemented was training the staff to understand that our customers were more important than selling coffee. Rather than discourage evangelism, like most businesses do, we actually encouraged it.

We gave our employees permission to spend time “loving” on our customers and to even pray with them when appropriate. That mindset resulted in many accepting Christ over the years.

1 Corinthians 9:22 teaches, “To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some.”

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