Not that it bothers me, but yes, there are Christians today that feel a liberty to drink, it's a thing where they say, "Well, Jesus turned the water...," and all as we often rationalize stuff. But yet, God's word says "Wine is a mocker." The thing is, not if is it right or wrong. But is it pleasing to what God wants...
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise (Pro 20:1).
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has babblings? Who has wounds without cause? Who has red eyes? They that tarry long at wine; and those that go to seek mixed wine," and so forth (Pro 23:29-30).
Paul said, "All things are lawful for me." But "I will not be brought under the power of any" (1Cor 6:12). Does it affect my judgment at all? Does it affect my attitudes? Then I'm being brought under its power.
In the New Testament we are told that in choosing those as overseers in the church, they are not to be given to wine. In the Old Testament, there were two sons of Aaron, who started to offer incense before the Lord, and the fire of God came from the altar and consumed the two sons of Aaron. And when this happened, the Lord said unto Moses, "Speak unto Aaron and his sons and tell them that they are not to be drinking wine when they come in to offer sacrifices before Me." For God does not want service from or of any kind of a false stimulant. Let us never forget, we are to be a continuous living sacrifice (Rom 12:1; 1Pet 2:5).
So I guess your question or my pondering answer (I guess I should say), depends if it's a drunken lifestyle.
Regardless though (upon further enlightenment), I Stand with Messy's answer below.
I'm not saying they were hookers. It just seemed as if they were so strict on their viewpoints but not strict enough on others (as in their top pastors had affairs and they tried to shrug it off).
