In an attempt to combat dwindling attendance levels and add new members to their shrinking congregations, some churches in the U.S. are starting to think outside the box — by embracing the bottle.
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WWJB in the News
- American Craft, Los Angeles: WWJB? Chris Watkins – Part 1
- Pirate Christian: Serve Beer to Attract Young People
- The Wisdom Daily: Church in Non-Traditional Spaces…Even Bars
- Paste Magazine: 7 Unexpected Places to Find Beer
- Noticias Cristas Atualizadas [Brazil]: Christians gather in bars to study the Bible and drinking beer
Wise Beer Quotes
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God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
Anne Sexton
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He was a wise man who invented beer
Plato
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Others drink to forget. Christians drink to remember.
Anonymous
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If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.
David Daye
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Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.
Ecclesiastes 9:7
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If you are tired and downhearted, take a drink; but this does not mean being a pig and doing nothing but gorging and swilling… You should be moderate and sober; this means that we
should not be drunken, though we may be exhilarated. [Sermon on Soberness and Moderation]Martin Luther
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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as He loves vegetation
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The selling of bad beer is a crime against Christian love.
Martin Luther
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Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
Benjamin Franklin
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Don’t drink only water. You ought to drink a little wine for the sake of your stomach because you are sick so often.
1 Timothy 5:23
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Beer is made by man, wine by God.
Martin Luther
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He makes…wine that gladdens human hearts.
Psalm 104:15