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🗓️ 23 September 2020

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Can Christians drink alcohol? How much? Hear how the Bible addresses alcohol as https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/patrick-miller/ (Pastor Patrick Miller) continues our series on https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/questions-youre-asking/ (Questions You're Asking). Interested in more content like this? Listen to https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/one-mans-journey-to-overcoming-addiction-an-interview-with-warren-mayer/ (Addiction Recovery and Jesus) from our last series https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/how-to-follow-jesus/ (on Learning to Follow Jesus). If you struggle with addiction, scroll down to learn more about https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/counseling-faq/ (counseling) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/warren-mayer/ (support) options at The Crossing. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/thecrossingcomo (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO and @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Tim Minut Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.0	I'm Keith Simon.
0:11.0	And I'm Patrick Miller.
0:13.0	Right now we're answering questions you're asking.
0:16.0	A lot of these are coming from our Facebook page.
0:19.0	So follow 10 minute Bible Talks on Facebook,
0:22.0	vote on your favorite questions, or you can just
0:24.6	give your own and you might hear it right here on the podcast.
0:27.8	How much alcohol should Christians drink? Can they get a buzz? How much of a buzz? Should Christians
0:34.5	even drink at all? Okay so to the mind of 18-year-old me the answer to this
0:39.0	question should Christians even drink was obviously no Christians can't drink. Now I didn't think that because I was
0:45.8	a Christian. I wasn't a Christian at the time and it's not as I knew a lot about Christianity.
0:50.9	I thought that Christians didn't drink simply because all of the Christians I knew at the time were tea-totallers.
0:57.0	They didn't drink. And if they weren't tea-totallers, they never drink in public.
1:01.0	And so it just gave me the idea that that's kind of what
1:04.4	Christians do it probably added to the fact that my parents they're good people
1:09.0	and my parents didn't really drink and so I thought well if Christians are good people they must not drink just like my parents don't really
1:16.2	drink this is how I thought about things back then now I know that there's nothing interesting about what I'm saying right now to anyone except for me but I'm trying to make a point.
1:24.7	Your perspective on Christians and alcohol probably says more about your upbringing and Christian
1:31.6	tradition than it does about what the Bible actually says.
1:35.7	Whether you think drinking is great or you think drinking is terrible or you're just somewhere
1:40.2	different altogether, it says a lot more about you probably than it does
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