IS IT WRONG FOR A CHRISTIAN TO WORK IN BREWING C0. OR TOBACO

[GENDY]

this is a question we have been dealing for some weeks in Bible study with youths and i don't know if a Christians is good to work with a brewing company e.g Kenya wine agency, Tusker co. or BAT... pliz suggestion should be moral and based or facts in biblical or Koran.

[Edwin]

Christians who are strong in faith could use this as a way of reaching out and evangelizing those who are working there. There is no specific verses in the Bible or Koran that talk about this. If someone is weak in his or her faith, then he or she can be easily allured into drinking.

[preciousA]

i don't know about this one...

Edwin the person may not drink.. but does their working there facilitate others' drinking? But then again the same could be said of so many other occupations, so i guess its to each their own ......conscience-wise on whats right and not.

[cheptabkoret]

i usually go drinking with two of my friends in a group of others, n they are saved... ofcourse they buy us a karao, while they take there sodas.......n we really enjoy their company......

so to the topic at hand..... what do u think Jesus would have done was he to be in modern times n he had been appointed the sales manager of breweries??????
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[Edwin]

Cheptapkoret, what do you think He would have done???????

[GENDY]

someone to read eclessiastes chapter 2 and the whole of that chapter then conclude this issue if possible

[cheptabkoret]

[GENDY]

hey! cheptabkoret! we are missing the mark please! i thought this issue could have answered question mostly affecting young Christian in modern societies who in between religions and the world" outside believes" can heal the real meaning of this Q!

[Memo]

is it right for a christian to drink? just a tiny lil bit? socially?

[GENDY]

im sorry i posted an issue which it didnt make sense to who ever had to critize but all in all whatever , the depth of a society depends on laws applied in that time.

[Rokiha]

The theologians will agree with me that the verses in the bilbe do contradicts each other (old & new testament). To me I don't see anything wrong with an individual working anywhere so long as he/she is strong in the faith.

After all even Jesus himself was at one time an agent of the brewing & he did facilitated the availability of keroro in plenty na tena tamu saidi in that wedding the way Cheptabkoret as pointed out.

[chitaabkoreet]

I think it is not right for us to imagine that a christian can work in abrewing company and still be effective in being the salt and the light of the world.The salt seeks to bring taste, and to preserve .I dont think it is in the mission of a christian to kill the body through promoting intake of alcohol.....The bible encourages us to exercise self control; an aspect that is compromised by alcohol intake,,,,,it is for this reason that alcohol is considered and proven to work against the christian principles of purity and integrity........let me ask anyone out there,,,how can you work to promote alcohol consumption and at the same time preach that the body is the temple of God that ought be kept pure????

[Cheptilda]

Hey Chitaabkoret,any connections to Cheptabkoret?
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[Cheptilda]

No Cheptabkoret,don't change your user name,i happen to love it!
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[Tarz]

The question of wether its right or wrong to partake or make beer or cigarrete should lie highly on personal level,Lets leave cigarretes alone we know its direct effects....whats wrong with having 2 beers and choma on my way home from jobo,everything in life is poisonous including religion if taken in excess or abused otherwise it can be a therapy.If making the beer feeds my kids and rears my family believe me i will do it,u cant criticize me and whisk away nikisota if i quit my job coz of ua damn criticism.

[Rokiha]

What about the earnings or profits from such ventures could it be right to donate kama 10% kwa church or in other words will it be wrong for kwal ama eabl to built a church somewhere in there CSR duties???

[Tarz]

[cheplaskei]

The same might be applied to the following:

Would you as a pro-life activist work in an abortion clinic?. I don't know if there are there in Kenya, but the are very much in the open in the US. Can you let your beliefs come into play when in you work in a certain place?

My profession is one that comes in contact with people of all walks of life, but we have to put our feelings and believes behind and do what we need to do. Diversity is a difference to be celebrated and not critised.

On this issue, if you have to work in a brewery as a christian, it does not mean you are condoning or encouraging people to consume alcohol. Someone else would work there and make it.

[cheptabkoret]

assuming one has no job at all and gets after tarmacking for like ages and gets called to join breweries as an accountant for example....now that is not a taster nor a marketer/salesman but work with figures. will one have to refuse to go work in there???
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