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What Would You Do [drinking issues]?

Church Staff Drinking in Local Restaurant. Do you.....

  • Report it to Pastor ....

    Votes: 4 12.9%
  • Ignore it, because you'd do the same ....

    Votes: 4 12.9%
  • No say anything, as drinking is up to the individual and God ....

    Votes: 17 54.8%
  • Speak to the adults privately at another time!

    Votes: 8 25.8%
  • Sit there and count how many more wines/beers they get ....

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Remember that Jesus turned water to wine. No foul!

    Votes: 11 35.5%
  • Leave the church and find one that believes like me ....

    Votes: 1 3.2%
  • No opinion, because drinking is not a sin!

    Votes: 11 35.5%
  • No opinion, because I drink too!

    Votes: 3 9.7%
  • Even though I drink, I do not drinlk in the public arena ....

    Votes: 1 3.2%

  • Total voters
    31
You guys keep defedning your buzz by talking as if I have said that any drinking gets you buzzed.
Isn't that a totally contradictory statement? You accuse me of "defending my buzz" -- an effect I do not have a drink or two to get -- and then claim you haven't said anything about "any drinking gets you buzzed"? How's that work?

See, if I'm not drinking to get buzzed, nor am I getting buzzed, how can I be "defending my buzz"? Please explain ...
 
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InTheLight

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You guys keep defedning your buzz by talking as if I have said that any drinking gets you buzzed. I never said that. Neither do I hold to the idea that any drinking of alcohol is a sin.

Sept. 13, 2012
RevMitchell said:
Anything less than totally sober is drunk.
http://www.baptistboard.com/showpost.php?p=1901459&postcount=68

Is buzzed sober?
http://www.baptistboard.com/showpost.php?p=1901464&postcount=71

Moderation is good so long as it does not exceed any level of intoxication at all. Anything less than completely sober is sin.
http://www.baptistboard.com/showpost.php?p=2021270&postcount=4
 

Yeshua1

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Sept. 13, 2012

I am still looking to where in the Bible God just flat out forbidden drinking any alcohol!

I never have drank, but not going to go crazy on someone who has a cup of wine, or a cold beer while having lunch!
 

corndogggy

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Huh? Your fellow alco-pologist's story was that taverns were quite the bad environment regardless of the booze. Which is it?

If you actually read what I posted, back in the days of this country's forefathers it was not only perfectly acceptable but actually required. Fast forward to the late 1800's and suddenly the same establishments were considered bad.

If anything it had to do with the industrial revolution. People had begun to basically live in taverns during their free time. They would go to work and be exploited for 14-16 hours, and all they wanted to do afterwards was to go get sloshed at the bar and try to bury the pain and hopelessness. The thing was, they would even bring their kids inside, and due to really no underage drinking laws, the kids would get sloshed too. People during this time period would literally have "gin breaks" instead of coffee breaks, while working on heavy machinery. Of course it should be no surprised that quite a few of them would get mangled in the machines.

Point is, the "taverns are evil" mentality is left over from this time period. If you go back another 100 years, it just wasn't like that at all.
 
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corndogggy

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You have insulted a friend and a member in good standing on this board. How dare you make such an insulting comment to someone you do not know? Methinks thee protesteth too much.

If he is that upstanding of a person, I'm sure he can take a little ribbing in regards to his mad spelling skillz. Chill a little.
 

SaggyWoman

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I don't think that beer and wine drinking is an issue per se. drunkenness is an issue. And more than likely, your pastor may want to join them. hahaha
 

pk4life

Member
Let's say you visit a nice sit-down restaurant after Sunday morning church services, and a few tables over, or booths, you spot a deacon or one of your pastors enjoying a meal with another family from church!

You stop by to say your hello's and notice that in front of the ladies are half-full wine glasses. While in front of the men are glasses of beer!

Do you just forget about it, or do you mention it to the lead pastor, or the head Deacon?

This is not a drinking issue. This is a basic lack of understanding of how "church discipline" should work.
 

Crabtownboy

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On the OP, they probably just came from a deacons meet and that has driven them to drink.
 
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