Today's topic is controversial issue. We are going to be discussing alcohol and does it have a place in your life as a believer?

And we're going to talk about why is the church not addressing it?

Hi, I'm Cissy Graham Lynch. Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith in a compromising culture. Welcome back to another episode of Fearless where we are continuing the series

elephant in the room discussing topics that the church is avoiding and

and topics I think that are too big to ignore.

And recently I was on social media

and I saw John Chris, the Christian comedian,

promoting his new book that's coming out.

And he was telling a story that he got done

to a comedy show at a church,

and he goes to the

goes to the restroom and he tells the waitress I'm gonna order a water

but I want you to bring me, you know, this and this, some liquor. I don't even know my drinks that well.

And he said, I'll pay you $20. Just say, I'm going to order water, but you bring me this.

So then later, I'm not sure how the story... order water, but you bring me this.

So then later, I'm not sure how the story unfolded,

but he's revealing to one of the church staff

that they went to dinner with of what he did.

And this church staff said, oh, I did the same exact thing my first thought is like

wow that waitress must have thought these were a bunch of crazy people but it really

just kind of stirred in my heart that there's this greater acceptance of

alcohol inside the church now that a lot of people are drinking but even still there's

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