Anyone who doesn’t subscribe to Wade Burleson‘s blog should add it to your RSS reader. I don’t stop by and read his articles every week, but I do have them saved in my Google Reader. When I finally get around to reading some of his posts, I always kick myself for not keeping up with him a little more often.
Here is an article Wade wrote about Alcohol and Baptists.
I read this and I thought I was actually reading something that I might have written myself. Granted, I have not studied teachings by John Gill much, but the words that Wade wrote could have very well been my own.
For some years now, when people ask if I am a Baptist, I usually answer in the negative. I do attend a baptist church, and I have for most of my life, but some of their beliefs I simply do not hold to. I am not going to list them all here, and honestly the list isn’t all that long, but this post today is about alcohol.
Where in the Bible does it say that Believers should not drink alcohol?
If you can answer this question above for me, you will be the first who has. You will also be reading a version of the Bible with added text to it from the Canonical standard. (I am NOT talking about drunkenness, but rather having a beer with dinner) The Bible is very clear on many things, such as; homosexuality, pre-marital sex, murder, capital punishment, lying, cheating, stealing, and the list goes on…. If God didn’t want us to drink alcohol at all, don’t you think the Bible would have been more clear about it? Some things aren’t for us to know yet, such as life on other planets or whatever really happened to the dinosaurs. And honestly, how would these things affect your spiritual walk anyway?
Seems to me that if something isn’t really all that important for God to put in his Word, then you and I shouldn’t really worry or care about it all that much.
Either way, I think it brings a nice change to the look and feel of the new website and change can be a good thing when it means growth, and this church definitely has grown over the past 2-3 years.
