I have read alot of your posts, and some of them make me very uncomfortable, and I'm very hesitant to get into a discussion with you, nothing personal.
But I believe what Paul is saying here is we need to be careful of our lives so we will be a good witness for Christ. Look at the way some on this thread react to Baptist drinking. It is not actually that drinking is a sin, but it does ruin a persons witness. People won't take them seriously. We can be saved, but if our witness is not good we will loose rewards in heaven because we will be ineffective in carrying out Gods work on earth.
Good. I'm making progress.
Look at the way some on this thread react to Baptist drinking. It is not actually that drinking is a sin, but it does ruin a persons witness. People won't take them seriously.
Matthew 11
18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.
19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.