1. “A Drink at Joel’s Place!”
Joel 2:28-32 (Acts 2:16-21)

2. “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”
Making your way in the world today, Takes everything you’ve got Taking a break from all your worries, Sure would help a lot Wouldn’t you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go where Everybody knows your name And they’re always glad you came You want to go where you can see Our troubles are all the same You want to be where, Everybody knows your name You want to go where people Know people are all the same You want to go Where everybody knows your name.

3. Thus, the real question of the hour is – what does John Q
Thus, the real question of the hour is – what does John Q. Public find in a bar that he fails to find in a lukewarm church?

4. …So a drink at Joel’s place respectfully refers to the Lord’s Church

5. to better become the church our Lord intended His Son’s Body to be
Purpose:
to better become the church our Lord intended His Son’s Body to be

6. I Joel’s Place Gives ENJOYMENT

7. John Q. Pagan gets enjoyment at a bar… something certainly lacking in lukewarm churches…

8. I Joel’s Place Gives ENJOYMENT
A. Chief Characteristic of Early Christians

9. The early saints, though under adverse circumstances most of the time, but when they gathered for worship, their joy was in the Lord…

10. I Joel’s Place Gives ENJOYMENT
A. Chief Characteristic of Early Christians
B. Chief Characteristic of God

11. Lord would often use exaggeration for emphasis… Look at some of the animals and people He has created…

12. I Joel’s Place Gives ENJOYMENT
A. Chief Characteristic of Early Christians
B. Chief Characteristic of God
C. Chief Characteristic of His Today

13. 1 John 5:3
“For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.”

14. “When you speak of heaven, let your face light up, let it be irradiated with a heavenly glean, let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell…”
Charles H. Spurgeon

15. II Joel’s Place Gives FELLOWSHIP

16. “fellowship, aid and/or relief”
koinania
“fellowship, aid and/or relief”

17. II Joel’s Place Gives FELLOWSHIP
A. To the Hurting

18. One great evangelistic tool is that spiritual blisters are soothed not made at church through His people…

19. The church is NOT a hospital…; instead, it is a landfill that takes in garbage and turns it into a park!

20. II Joel’s Place Gives FELLOWSHIP
A. To the Hurting
B. To the Suspicious

21. III Joel’s Place Gives ANONYMITY

22. Barkeeps “matches moods” with their customers
Barkeeps “matches moods” with their customers. If their customer is crying in his beer…

23. III Joel’s Place Gives ANONYMITY
A. To New Christians

24. A certain sense of anonymity must be given to new Christians…

25. III Joel’s Place Gives ANONYMITY
A. To New Christians
B. To New Members

26. IV Joel’s Place Gives THE GOODS

27. Coke is “the real thing”… When a customer comes into a bar… A “good bar” is always true to its name…

28. IV Joel’s Place Gives THE GOODS
A. That Which is Advertised
B. That of the Choicest Product

29. True story of a small town nightclub/tavern built right on Main Street
True story of a small town nightclub/tavern built right on Main Street. One of the churches in town so disturbed about this they conducted…

30. Conclusion and Summary:
Can it be, can a barkeep have firmer convictions than do church folk? Can a bar really be more attractive to people and meeting their needs than the Church of our Lord? Jesus spoke of a drink that if taken one would never thirst again…