I’m Baptist, but we’d win more to Christ if we didn’t act like Muslims at times. It is possible to share the Gospel over a beer. I wish more folks realized that.
Totally agree. Legalism is a killer.
My sister is forever saying there would be more Christian if it weren’t for Christians. She may be right.
Have done that before and it is the best witnessing I have ever done. People shut themselves out to someone, who by virtue of the nature of the conversation, seem to hold themselves up to be morally superior. I know that is not the intent, but is easy for someone you are witnessing to to get that impression. When you have a beer with them, you are just like them and you are seen as less pretentious. I know alcohol abuse can be a terrible thing, but we evangelicals somehow got our wagons hitched a little too tightly to the prohibition movement, and it is a very real obstacle to winning souls to Christ.
I worked as a bartender for awhile. I had more opportunities to witness as a bartender than I had with any other job.