{"id":1174,"date":"2010-10-01T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/bblog2\/client\/index.cfm\/2010\/10\/1\/Can-Christians-participate-in-worldly-activities-such-as-going-to-Bars"},"modified":"2012-09-29T16:32:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T16:32:23","slug":"can-christians-participate-in-worldly-activities-such-as-going-to-bars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/can-christians-participate-in-worldly-activities-such-as-going-to-bars-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Christians participate in worldly activities such as going to Bars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <em>&#8220;&#8230;if any man who is called a brother &#8230;&#8221; 1 Corinthians 5:11 <\/em> <\/strong> the apostle Paul is talking about a brother in the faith and not referring to befriending unbelievers for the purpose of witnessing\/living ones life for Christ amongst the lost (the unsaved). Whether a believer should or should go to a club\/bar is related to ones outward faith towards others especially unbelievers. The bar\/club environment is not the\u00a0environment\/venue for ministering\/witnessing to unbelievers on the topic of faith and salvation\u00a0 through Yeshua (Jesus the Messiah). Some people justify going to\u00a0 bars\/clubs by saying how Yeshua ate with the sinners and publicans. The difference here is\u00a0 Yeshua did not participate (take part, engage, join) in the sinful lifestyles of the people whom he\u00a0 had dinner with in their homes, Yeshua taught hallachah (the way) concerning the rabbinic\u00a0 teaching in his day and taught the scriptures. A couple questions we should ask about the\u00a0 bar\/club environment are (i) what takes place physically in a bar\/club and (ii) what takes place\u00a0 verbally in a bar\/club. Answering question (i) what takes place is alcoholism and lascivious\u00a0dancing that is based upon a sexual appetite, sexual longing, desire, passion, sexuality, lechery,\u00a0and lecherousness. These are the sorts of things that go though the imaginations of men when\u00a0they see women dancing provocatively and the women who dance in such ways are doing so for\u00a0 the express purpose of rising up these desires within men. To read more see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/can-christians-participate-in-worldly-activities-such-as-going-to-bars-2\/bars\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1500\">Christians going to bars, Part 1<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/can-christians-participate-in-worldly-activities-such-as-going-to-bars-2\/response-bars\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1501\">Christians going to bars, Par 2 (a Response)<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t &#8220;&#8230;if any man who is called a brother &#8230;&#8221; 1 Corinthians 5:11   the apostle Paul is talking about a brother in the faith and not referring to befriending unbelievers for the purpose of witnessing\/living ones life for Christ amongst the lost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-articles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}