Posted on 11/13/2013 9:17:01 AM PST by GIdget2004
Despite his devotion to dinner time prayers and Christian values, "Duck Dynasty" star Willie Robertson has been axed from speaking at a benefit in Bristol, Tenn. for the faith and bible-driven organization, Family Ministries.
Why?
Wine.
The famous family announced its latest business venture last week: Duck Commander Wines. In conjunction with the winemakers of Trinchero Family Estates in Napa, the Robertsons' own line of Red, Moscato and Chardonnay is slated to hit stores next month. According to the Ministries, Duck Commander Wines goes against the organization's core values.
"Our greatest responsibility is to the young people we serve. Therefore, we feel that in light of the recent news, to continue with this event would send mixed messages to the young people who go through our Adolescent Drug and Alcohol program," Derek Bell, director of development for Family Ministries stated. "Our message must be consistent. The lives of those children may well hang in the balance. We certainly apologize to the people who have already purchased tickets, and pray they understand our position."
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For example, the Pharisees called Jesus an ``excessive drunk``,
33”For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’ 34”The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ 35”Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”
Luke 7:34
Idou! anthropos phagos kai oinopotas
Look! The man given to eating and wine drinker
Hey Baptist Christians.....Jesus LOVED wine, for Pete’s sake....and DANCING isn’t a sin either.
His explanation of that verse is that Jesus turned the wine into grape juice and they were too drunk to know the difference.
His church is also big on KJV only...as in, every other translation is a tool of da debbil.
Sorry...turned WATER into grape juice...
Swear I haven`t been drinking any wine-
haffast, You hit it out of the park here.
Drinking alcohol is NOT a sin.
Yes, Jesus DID turn water into WINE.
(Somebody PLEASE tell me WHAT alternative did they have in those days - Gatorade? Pepsi?)
Today, we have LOTS of alternatives to alcohol.
Some of you have said you don’t understand Christians who are teetolers.. I don’t understand “Christians” who dabble with alcohol to put their minds to sleep. Where is the wisdom of that?
Look at the pic and article that haffast posted here...
What is the ONE factor, which removed from the situation, would have prevented this?
A: Alcohol.
I’m surprised at how many people CAN’T live without it.
They do, but almost every Church of Christ member I know is a heavy drinker. LOL
Dang. Just dang..........
While I respect them sticking to their beliefs. There is a perhaps, a line that is crossed when you start merchandising it.
That said, no where does the Bible say you can’t own a vineyard.
I Timothy 5:23 “Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.”
I’ll never understand the Legalism in so many churches surrounding consumption of alcohol; but the same people will gorge themselves fatter n’ a tick at a Sunday fellowship buffet and gossip about one another.
Are the Duck Dynasty people advocating that adolescents drink it?
We write much on this web site about America's founding principle of freedom of religion and the free exercise thereof.
Not every individual or group interprets its "exercise" of that precious right in the same manner as other individuals or groups.
Is that not what is great about America?
Yesterday's news focused on a story about a photography team who, because of their religious beliefs, have been tried and convicted by the "state" for exercising their own rights of conscience based on those beliefs?
Thomas Jefferson (a signer of the Declaration and a U. S. President) repeatedly praised America’s protections for the rights of conscience, as evidenced by the following statements:
"No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience.""[O]ur rulers can have no authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted." "A right to take the side which every man’s conscience approves . . . is too precious a right – and too favorable to the preservation of liberty – not to be protected."
"It is inconsistent with the spirit of our laws and Constitution to force tender consciences."
My thoughts exactly.
I support them 100%.
And Jesus came and changed EVERYTHING!! Jesus said that all foods are OK.
They must not have ever heard of communion wine. Boneheads.
And politics....just sayin’
“His explanation of that verse is that Jesus turned the wine into grape juice and they were too drunk to know the difference.”
But the head waiter is the one that tasted it and comments about it being better than the wine at the beginning of the celebration, and I doubt if the head waiter was ripped out of his gourd.
That KJV only stuff is pretty weird, He Who Is Not To Be Named On The Religion Forum is one of those guys.
Freegards
...if you read Phil's (the father) book, he almost lost his family....Kay, Willie, Jase and Allen...because he was a heavy drinker....he actually threw them---the mom and boys... out of the house when those boys were young.
I would think, if anyone, Willie could understand how some church organizations have zero tolerance for wine, beer, etc.
I don't fault the church organization.....they are simply standing by their core principles....knowing full well they will be ridiculed....as many of you are doing here.
I guess your right, Slick Willie, Al Gore and the Huckster included.
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