Can A Christian Work At A Brewery?

Should He Quit His Job?

Someone I know is seriously born again and after staying 3 years at home post NYSC with a degree in mechanical engineering, he later got a job with Nigerian breweries (makers of maltina, star etc). He even gave testimony on how he scored the highly coveted job and explained to fellow praying  believers that he will not be working in the alcohol department and that he'll be into something else besides making the beer or tasting it in any way. 

Is it proper for a born again Christian who is against drinking alcohol to work for a company making the alcohol?  Should he quit that job and believe God for another job? Should Christians work for other companies that make alcohol, condoms, cigarettes even if they don't use those things?

Should we apply principle to christianity or should we walk according to the teachings of Jesus? Principle entails taking options that best suits you.

According to The Word

Does Alcohol make one a Sinner? NO

the abuse does.

Does smoke make one a sinner? NO

the abuse does.

For goodness sakes. there is nicotine in Coke/ coffee e.t.c

the abuse of these is equal to that of Alchohol.

1 John 3

18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 19 This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence
20 whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God
22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.
23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
24 Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

1 Cor 8
9 Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
10 For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you who have this knowledge eating in an idol's temple, won't he be emboldened to eat what has been sacrificed to idols?
11 So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
12 When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
13 Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.

As a born again christian, you are 100% allowed to take alcohol (even Jesus Christ used to take alcohol) you are just advised not to drink in excess. Any hypocrite that tells you otherwise (be it pastor) is a liar and the word of God is not in him. If your friend as something personal against drinking, that is another matter but christian beliefs and doctrine condones the drinking of alcohol in moderation. He had better stick to his Job and not let any hypocrite who would not assist him when in need lead him into doing something he would later regret.

Believe God for another Job while he rots in poverty.

I once had a aunt who quit her high level position at guiness because she also felt this same way. She couldn't afford her diabetes medication and died. 


I feel angry, with people  with this kind of mentality. (such as that of the post above)

Thats why a christian shouldn't take those. Did Jesus drink coca cola or coffee? He only drank water.

@post
hope the guy go learn from madamkoko auntie. I trust the guy go give 10% of his doh as tithes to his church. But dose he know what his pastors are doing with the money? No be to buy benz, build house, put d doh for his bank account etc while his congregation is struggling to survive? Is there any difference between that and him working in a place where they make alchohol?

Think am well. Get your priorities right ok. Man must wack oh! 

what does this conversation have to do with committing a sin.

Of course, a born againChristian can work in a brewery. . . . . .Whatz his business with what an idiot does to himself through abuse??
Moderation is the key in any sphere of life. . . . .Taking alcohol is not a SIN but when u take too much of it, u are asking for trouble.
It's like saying a Christian cannot work in a pharamaceutical company because a plonker somewhere is going to abuse drugs and kill himself?
A Christian cannot work in MacDonalds or Burger King because a glutton would eat himself to obesity and die of heart attack.
Deepzone, at this point. . . . . .I think u are a flaming Philistine.  

@Madamkoko

D'oh!

poster
if u can show me a place in the bible that says "never work in a brewery" then i would say he/she shld quit.

Na so e easy to find work for naija?

What a dork

God finally answers the prayer by providing a job and now he wants to play pick ands choose. If he likes let him not take the job. It should go to a more sensible person anyway

please quicky tell the guy to reject the job.
When he stays at home for another decade looking for a job he will be wiser

Then he will remember that Jesus turned water to wine.

Tell him to resign, he doesn't need the job. Another sinner who needs the job will take it.

i bow oooooooooo

is this forum about Bible twistin?

many of u guys should be theologists