Some time ago, the newspapers around the country reported a famous preacher’s comment about social drinking. He said, “I do not believe that the Bible teaches teetotalism. I can’t; Jesus drank wine. Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding feast. That wasn’t grape juice, as some of them try to claim.”
Of course, many people have held this view, through the years, but it is a sad day when a man who is noted as a Bible preacher also espouses the same position. So, it is incumbent upon us to look into the Bible itself and see what the scriptures actually teach about the drinking of wine.
Another reason that such a study is so important is that, even though the drinking of hard liquor has decreased, wine consumption has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years.
In order to arrive at the truth, we must consider several key points, which Dr. Lackey has expounded upon in this little book.
20 pages.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bruce Lackey (1930-1988) taught at Tennessee Temple in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for nineteen years and was the dean of the Bible School for a number of years until the early 1980’s. He pastored the Lakewood Baptist Church of Chattanooga for eight years and pastored two other churches before that. During the last few years of his life, he traveled as a Bible conference speaker and authoured several books. He was an accomplished musician, a highly gifted Bible teacher, and a diligent scholar who was proficient in the Greek language. Dr. Lackey, who was deeply respected and beloved by the “preacher boys” at Temple, defended the Received Text and the King James Bible as the preserved Word of God.
