Coffee and Donuts

In many churches, the term “fellowship” has been reduced to the title of a committee that serves coffee and punch after worship. Yet, those fellowship coffees and church picnics serve a real purpose of giving people the opportunity to meet and grow in friendship. In the film Simon Birch (directed by Mark Steven Johnson, Buena Vista Pictures, 1998, 28:24–29:35), Simon challenges Reverend Russell in worship, asking, “What does coffee and donuts have to do with God?” Russell replies that it’s to...