3 New Ways to Look at Christians Drinking Wine, Beer and Hard Liquor

1. Drinking is about context. The top two ways guys connect today is texting and get-togethers. Often men gather over a beer to talk. There’s nothing inherently wrong with drinking beer, as long as it doesn’t cause someone to question or doubt your authenticity of faith in Christ, and as long as it doesn’t cause someone to stumble—literally and figuratively.

Drinking with a few friends isn’t the problem, but getting drunk together is. Drinking with a buddy isn’t the problem, but it is if he’s a recovering alcoholic. Drinking with the boys isn’t bad, but drinking and then getting behind the wheel is. Here’s the key verse that sums up this point:

“Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister” (Rom. 14:13, NIV).

We have the power to self-limit and to allow someone else’s faith to blossom, grow or be strengthened. But the opposite is also true.