Bill: Yes, I’m one of the writers on the project. I contributed two lessons to the first adult quarterly, one on general revelation, one on special revelation. No, we have received no directive to make it extra Calvinisty.

The directives were mainly these: Make the lessons Christ-centered (as opposed to either theological/historical information dumps or heavily applicational moralism). Tie lessons into the greater gospel narrative of the Scriptures: Creation/Fall/Redemption/Consummation.

The “conspiracy” is to introduce gospel-centered Sunday School lessons to SBC churches.

There are sample lessons available online, one of which is one of my contributions.

I actually have tried the cat poop coffee.  We got a bit for my dad as a funny gift for his retirement party.  It tasted like coffee, but I drink coffee maybe twice a year, so what do I know?  I don’t remember what we paid, but it wasn’t anything like the price they were quoting.

Clearly there is no comparison between the two.

Clearly.

Yes

Mann’s Assumption has climbed to the top of my rules for life.

Shea gross. Still there is a difference between poop getting on food and the pooping process as a vital step in the creation of the drink.

I’d drink the coffee if it wasn’t $160. Most of the food we eat has had manure on it at some point.

It’s coffee that has come from another creatures ass.

I don’t care if it’s monkey-butt, cat-ass, or from the tush of the queen of Sheba. Ass coffee is not something I want to try. Ever.

A cup of steaming Indonesian monkey butt-coffee? No. Not ever.

People, let’s be reasonable. This isn’t coffee pooped from the butt of a monkey. It’s coffee pooped from the but of a cat. Clearly there is no comparison between the two.

I’d be willing to bet that if you took the same bean and roasted and brewed it the same, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between pooped and unpooped coffee. People who say they can taste the local environment where the bean grew in a brewed cup of coffee are full of poop.

Matthew, I thought for a moment that you were going to bring the Mann Assumption into this place.

Addendum: Ooh, I hadn’t seen Andy‘s post when I first wrote this. Well done, sir. Coffeenut theology.

Question for Jared W.

Hey Jared. Are you one of the contributors for The Gospel Project at Lifeway? If so, do you mind talking about it a little bit? The whole thing is creating a bit of an uproar that the contributors to this project are heavily reformed and that this material will be some type of clandestine reformed propaganda vehicle to secretly indoctrinate unsuspecting SBC churches with reformed theology. Which of course, if true, you wouldn’t tell me anyway.