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Liked It “Don't be worried about having to read loads of content on Starbucks (go to Joseph Michelli's 'The Starbucks Experience' for that). Instead you will find some really helpful thinking from Leonard Sweet around the challenge that Starbucks throws out to other organisations - being experiential,...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“Don't be worried about having to read loads of content on Starbucks (go to Joseph Michelli's 'The Starbucks Experience' for that). Instead you will find some really helpful thinking from Leonard Sweet around the challenge that Starbucks throws out to other organisations - being experiential, participatory, image-rich, and connective (an EPIC experience, you may have noticed).
geoffreybaines wrote this review Monday, September 8 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
It's certainly not a suger-rich frappucino kind of read. It's more robust - a double espresso kind of reflection on what the future faith-community will need to look and be like. ”
“Sweet is the best author writing religious material that is still practicing the art of book writing. The Gospel According to Starbucks encourages the reader to buy into th eexperience of the Gospel, not just the words, but to engage all the senses, all the emotion,wisfom....your everything into the Good News.”
Rich B wrote this review Friday, July 18 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Probably going to have to read this again. I do like the perspective of comparing Christianity and Starbucks. ”
Willis C wrote this review Tuesday, November 20 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I was skeptical at first - despite the reputation in Len Sweet - however, it is an incredibly rich book. Truth abounds in this tall-sized book with grande power. ”
347 wrote this review Friday, September 14 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Much like his Post-Modern Pilgrims (2000), Dr. Leonard Sweet attempts to connect readers with the E.P.I.C. way of living {(E)xperiential (P)articipator (I)mage based (C)onnective)} that he first introduced me to in 1999 with Soul Tsunami. Even the sub titles between the Gospel According to Starbucks and Pilgrims are extremely close with one reading “Living a Grande Passion” and the other “First century passion for the 21 century world.”
jmajeau wrote this review Saturday, March 3 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
While the two books follow a very similar pattern (each chapter tackles a letter of E.P.I.C) I don’t find this necessarily a bad thing. In fact I am glad Dr. Sweet published a new book instead of re-releasing an older book with new material. If Pilgrims was Dr. Sweet sitting on his infamous swing and push back into history to gain moment, Gospel According to Starbucks, is the momentum gained.
Even though Dr. Sweet personally doesn’t like the title (would have preferred Jehovah Java The Gospel According to St.Arbucks) I thought the verbal imagery given in the title sets the stage for what follows with the inductive one-liners and in perfect Sweetonian fashion a baptism in a sea (or mug) of metaphors. Another well-written, well researched, metaphor drenched E.P.I.C. journey.
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