At least in the conservative Christian circles I frequent, there are topics assured to raise legalistic arguments from otherwise very orthodox Christians: tithing, homeschooling, entertainment choices, alcohol, and Sabbath observance.
I'll follow Paul's advice in Romans 14 on these issues. If someone is convinced that God's Word teaches them something which I disagree with, I'll not deliberately give them offense by practicing something they object to if I can help it. However, their interpretation of Scripture on these controversial issues is not binding on my conscience.
CC, you are coorect in your actions.
I follow this: Ephesians 5:11
“Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. This is why it is said:
“Wake up, sleeper,
rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you” (Eph. 5:11-4).
—I’ll follow Paul’s advice in Romans 14 on these issues. If someone is convinced that God’s Word teaches them something which I disagree with, I’ll not deliberately give them offense by practicing something they object to if I can help it. However, their interpretation of Scripture on these controversial issues is not binding on my conscience.—
Yup. I live in a hotbed of Baptist (pronounced Babdis) churches and a lot of people I work with are anti-alcohol. The county in which I work just went “wet” and the county in which I live is “moist”. I started to discuss the subject when we were talking about the issue on the ballot. I quickly stopped. ;-)
My biggest dissapointment is that now that Sam’s club here has beer, they are still 25% more expensive than the private liquor store at the border of my moist county.