Should Christians Drink?
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
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🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
What exactly does Scripture say about drinking? Today, Jeff dives into the Bible to explain what it teaches and breaks down both the benefits of drinking, and the dangers of drinking excessively.
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"Temperance is the moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created goods. It ensures the will's mastery over instincts and keeps desires within the limits of what is honorable. "- CC 1809
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Jeff Cavens show episode 188 should Christians drink. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey I'm Jeff Cavens. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible? |
| 0:16.8 | All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general. It's the Jeff Caven show. |
| 0:28.0 | Ah, the weather is changing. It is getting colder here in the in the woods of Minnesota and the leaves are falling and |
| 0:36.5 | wind is blowing it's it's that time of year and we're getting ready for winter here up in the in the north. Not as many people walking |
| 0:46.0 | around the lake as I look out at it. In fact a lot of the geese are gone and things |
| 0:52.4 | are settling down a little bit, that time of preparation. |
| 0:56.0 | You go outside and rake the leaves and it's getting cold and it might go in for a little hot toddy, or maybe not. That's what we're going to talk about today on the |
| 1:07.1 | Jeff Kavin show. We're going to talk about should Christians drink and as I was preparing for this show and I was sharing some of the ideas with some of my friends |
| 1:16.8 | They they responded in a couple of ways one was I've always wondered about that. You know what does the Bible say about about drinking and in others where oh here it here it comes |
| 1:30.3 | Well, we're going to talk about both aspects. We're going to talk about the positive aspects from |
| 1:36.1 | the Bible when it comes to drinking, whether it's wine or strong drink. We're also going to talk |
| 1:42.0 | about the warnings, which as I look through the Bible I see, |
| 1:46.5 | some very serious warnings. This is not a show of judgment. This is a show of encouragement and possibly warning in your life. |
| 1:57.6 | I started thinking about this a few years ago and it really was precipitated by something that went on at a men's |
| 2:06.8 | conference years ago. I was speaking at a men's conference and there were probably, I |
| 2:11.3 | don't know, four or five men that were speaking at the |
| 2:14.4 | conference and there was about 1500 men attending the conference and after the conference |
| 2:19.6 | wound up at the end of the day all the speakers got together with a bunch of |
| 2:23.8 | organizers and they they met and they had a bit of a bar laid out there and I |
| 2:30.2 | walked in and they said well what do you have to drink cave-ins and I said well can I have some sparkling water? |
| 2:38.0 | I just felt like having some sparkling water that night and and immediately I had two or three guys say oh come on |
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