……Al replied. “As a Christian, I’m free to use God’s gifts properly. But if a fellow Christian or a non-believer is an alcoholic, my drinking it in his presence is a discouragement, like offering a loaded pistol to a suicidal person. Or, like putting God’s stamp of approval on his alcoholism. I dare not use my freedom as license. I can’t use my knowledge to hurt someone paying attention to my example. Sharing Christ’s love is more important to me than my knowledge of what’s right or wrong for me.”…….
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PS Thanks Rich for pointing me there!
At our church we have used Paul’s argument about causing a weaker brother to stumble to support just this type of ministry amongst our spiritual leadership to refrain from social drinking.
Thank you so much for linking to this post.
The core issue Paul identifies is, I think, bigger than we may realize.
God bless you.
Mark Daniels
You’re welcome Mark – keep writing such great stuff and I’ll probably be linking to you again!