Alcohol ( Colossians 2 v 16 )

 Over the last few years at Christmas a neighbour  gives me a present,usually it is box of biscuits and a bottle of alcoholic drink,this year it was a bottle of whiskey. Now the question some may be asking is it not wrong for a Christian to drink alcohol ?.it could be that some think  it is even a sin,they may even doubt that those who drink are  saved.There are Christian denominations in which one is not be permitted to join if one drinks alcohol.  Now of course, one does not have to have ,much of a brain to realise that there are problems with drinking alcohol ,many are  slaves to it,and it destroys lives,families ,causes road deaths. I would never  advocate the drinking of alcohol,but I am not going to set myself as a judge as regards those who drink.I 'm sure the key is moderation in all things, let us remember that all things are lawful,but not everything is beneficial, we have the right to do anything, but we should not be mastered by anything.  ( 1 Corinthians 6 v 12)