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.

Baptists and Beer is a post from: Liberate Te Ex Inferis

So to signify promotion Sunday, along with John Meador’s 1-year anniversary with FBC Euless, they launched both a new website and new logos, designs, team and class names for the church. It’s a whole new look and feel and for the most part I think that it is really good.

I like the new logo, but I don’t care for the Easter-Egg, Pastel colors that they chose. I would have preferred a slate gray/ navy blue/ silver / black / or dark red theme. I am sure they care about my opinion 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.

It’s going to be exciting to see what comes about in the next several months in the life of this church, a place that tries so desperately to move forward and progress with growing times, but seems to get in it’s own way so often. For the most part, FBC Euless is one of the most progressive Southern Baptist churches in the DFW Metroplex. But as of late, it has taken a few steps backwards into the more traditional Baptist role that we are used to seeing in this area. I think the new website and it’s features are a good contradiction to that, and I am glad to see them, other than the fact that the site doesn’t seem to like Firefox.

The resignation of Claude Thomas , some three years ago, didn’t discourage or bring down this church body, but empowered them to the extent of “let us show you that we follow God and not a man of God” and that is exactly what has transpired here, with the paying off of a $6.5 million mortgage debt in this period of time. Whatever happens next should be worth blogging about.

New Website and Logo for FBC Euless is a post from: Liberate Te Ex Inferis