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“Alcohol and the Christian Life”
Ephesians 5:18
* Alcohol as a blessing.
* Alcohol has a place in scripture as health care.
* Alcohol has a place in scripture as palliative care.
* Alcohol is dangerous.
* It is bad for your life to be consumed by alcohol.
* Those in leadership or with heavy responsibility are especially warned against alcohol.
* We should consider how our drinking could affect others.
* Everything we do should be for God’s glory.
* Being filled with the Holy Spirit is better than being drunk.
* As Christians we have been fundamentally changed, and our relationship to Christ changes the way we should think about and use alcohol.
REFLECTION/PRAYER
-What do you think is the right way for Christians to think about alcohol?
-What relationship is God calling you to have to alcohol?
-Do your past struggles or the past struggles of family members make avoiding alcohol the wisest approach for your life?
-Are your responsibilities and leadership roles such that it would be wise to avoid alcohol and all its dangers entirely?
-Do your current alcohol habits negatively affect the people around you?
-Are your current alcohol habits God-glorifying?
-Are there things in your life that you need to deal with, rather than covering them up with alcohol use?
-If you know you have sinful alcohol habits, who can you confess your sin to?
-Do you need to take a big step? Have the elders pray for you? Join our Celebrate Recovery Group? Enter into treatment?
