tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777750410141759635.post-57790711458095179562007-09-03T21:50:00.000-04:002007-09-03T21:50:00.000-04:002007-09-03T21:50:00.000-04:00While I would not, for a number of reasons, endorse bar based evangelism, I don't find it confusing at all that a conservative church would embrace the moderate use of alcohol as a beverage as well as male only leadership in the church. The fact is, both positions are the Bible position.<BR/><BR/>Jesus drank wine. The Bible, in no uncertain language, endorses the moderate use of alcohol as a beverage. Up until the rise of the falsely so called "temperance" movement of the mid 1800s the use of alcohol as a beverage was commonly accepted among Baptists.<BR/><BR/>Teetotalism is actually a liberal position which grew out of the same 19th century liberal social movements that spawned feminism. So it no surprise that many of those who hold an anti-Biblical position on women in the ministry also hold an anti-Biblical position on the use of alcohol.<BR/><BR/>Mark Osgatharp<BR/>Wynne, ArkansasMark Osgatharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05585562082826860149noreply@blogger.com