Christian owning a restaurant with a bar

[Ceasar montelongo]

Ok so what's your opinion on this. If a Christian can't own a restaurant/bar. Due to the fact that there are ppl struggling with being alcoholics ect..... Then why is it Right for a Christian to own a restaurant of ANY sort? because there are many ppl struggling with being obese....

 

[Tree of Life]

Ok so what's your opinion on this. If a Christian can't own a restaurant/bar. Due to the fact that there are ppl struggling with being alcoholics ect..... Then why is it Right for a Christian to own a restaurant of ANY sort? because there are many ppl struggling with being obese....

Christians are free to own bars.

 

[jacknife]

Ok so what's your opinion on this. If a Christian can't own a restaurant/bar. Due to the fact that there are ppl struggling with being alcoholics ect..... Then why is it Right for a Christian to own a restaurant of ANY sort? because there are many ppl struggling with being obese....

Why would alcoholics existing stop you from owning a bar?

 

[Ceasar montelongo]

Why would alcoholics existing stop you from owning a bar?

Due to the fact that I would be supporting something that is frowned upon. As a Christian it's frowned upon to have a couple drinks every now and then. Or even any at all.

 

[Ceasar montelongo]

Just something I'm struggling with because I have always wanted to own a.restaurant/bar. But is getting criticized because it's not "Christian" to sell alcohol.

 

[Locutus]

Due to the fact that I would be supporting something that is frowned upon. As a Christian it's frowned upon to have a couple drinks every now and then. Or even any at all.

What did Jesus turn water into?

 

[Tree of Life]

Due to the fact that I would be supporting something that is frowned upon. As a Christian it's frowned upon to have a couple drinks every now and then. Or even any at all.

I, nor any of my Christian friends, nor members of my church, nor members of any church that I personally know of frown upon consuming alcohol.

 

[Tree of Life]

Just something I'm struggling with because I have always wanted to own a.restaurant/bar. But is getting criticized because it's not "Christian" to sell alcohol.

One of the elders at our church does this professionally. He works for a distribution company that sells craft beer.

 

[Chesterton]

Due to the fact that I would be supporting something that is frowned upon. As a Christian it's frowned upon to have a couple drinks every now and then. Or even any at all.

It takes a weird Christian to frown upon something Christ did.

 

[thebackyardpreacher]

People have personal responsibility that could be with alcohol, food, sex you name it. In my opinion alcohol and or other drugs are not sinful in and of themselves it is what comes out when they are used. Same with food you have to eat, but you do not have to get fat.

 

[Ceasar montelongo]

What did Jesus turn water into?

Wine

 

[seashale76]

Just something I'm struggling with because I have always wanted to own a.restaurant/bar. But is getting criticized because it's not "Christian" to sell alcohol.

Only according to a very narrow cultural view (i.e Evangelical Americans and those influenced by them because that movement came out of those that pushed for Prohibition). The majority of Christians around the world from the beginning until now did/do not share this anti-alcohol view. Drunkenness is the sin- not drinking. Lots of people know their limits and drink without getting drunk.

 

[Locutus]

Wine

A god who thinks it's better for us to drink wine than water, is surely not a god who'll look askance at serving beers with burgers.

 

[dogs4thewin]

Due to the fact that I would be supporting something that is frowned upon. As a Christian it's frowned upon to have a couple drinks every now and then. Or even any at all.

Depends on who you talk to. I have no problem with it and in fact drank the day I turned legal and a few times since. As for causing people to fall the mere fact that a Christian owns a bar is not enough. It is not as if they are pressuring people to come in and drink a person is free to not go in the building.

 

[Cearbhall]

As a Christian it's frowned upon to have a couple drinks every now and then. Or even any at all.

I see you're in Texas. I suppose you would know better than I would, but if this is true about Texan culture, it's news to me.

 

[Ceasar montelongo]

I see you're in Texas. I suppose you would know better than I would, but if this is true about Texan culture, it's news to me.

Just some ppl I have talked to. They were quick to say that it's wrong of me to "support" alcohol.

 

[seashale76]

I see you're in Texas. I suppose you would know better than I would, but if this is true about Texan culture, it's news to me.

I don't know about Texas, but there are churches out there that restrict membership to those that pledge not to drink/teetotal as part of it. I was raised in such a denomination. My in-laws won't even eat food that has had alcohol put in it in any fashion (but extracts are okay). Bringing a rum cake to one of my husband's family gatherings back when we were first married was one of the most awkward experiences ever (nobody even tried it- and they were horrified that I would tempt the grandchildren with alcohol). My parents go to a church where people don't drink, but have extensive liquor cabinets solely for cooking purposes. Drinking is a huge no-no to a lot of Evangelical types of folks- and I live in bourbon country. You should have seen the rigmarole a member of my parent's First Baptist caused when he opened the first liquor store in their county after they finally voted to not be a dry county anymore. You would have thought it was an abortion clinic the way some carried on.

 

[durangodawood]

Wine

Just some ppl I have talked to. They were quick to say that it's wrong of me to "support" alcohol.

I dont get it. My sense is that when Jesus made wine for the wedding, he wasnt "getting away with" something. He did it for the sake of the people and their celebration.... because its what they would want and appreciate. I feel the same personally about a beer after a hard days work or a glass of wine with dinner.

Otoh, lots of people dont know when or how to stop, and for them alcohol is a misery.

 

[Sketcher]

Only according to a very narrow cultural view (i.e Evangelical Americans and those influenced by them because that movement came out of those that pushed for Prohibition). The majority of Christians around the world from the beginning until now did/do not share this anti-alcohol view. Drunkenness is the sin- not drinking. Lots of people know their limits and drink without getting drunk.

Hey, now. Not all evangelicals are teetotalers. Teetotaling is more of a strict Baptist/Pentecostal type of belief. Evangelicals include these people, but also include those who are sick of that man-made restriction and prefer to go by what God gave us in Scripture - that drunkenness is bad but drinking is not. This may be more common in non-denominational churches, and/or states that are big on craft beer. (Which happens to describe my church and my state.)

 

[coloradoguy]

Ok so what's your opinion on this. If a Christian can't own a restaurant/bar. Due to the fact that there are ppl struggling with being alcoholics ect..... Then why is it Right for a Christian to own a restaurant of ANY sort? because there are many ppl struggling with being obese....

As a Christian in the restaurant industry, there are more evils in this industry than the fact we serve alcohol. By the way, there's plenty of laws and regulation about that. If anything, there needs to be more of us here.