I remember listening to a real man’s concerns who had acknowledged to me that he had become addicted to alcohol.He already wanted to quit drinking. He told me that he no longer even goes to the Christmas celebrations of his relatives. That is because he knows that alcohol would be present. He knows that if he attends, then he will resume his old drinking ways again. So he does not attend. But he feels excluded at most places (besides Alcoholics Anonymous meetings).

Then I asked myself – should a church (consciously or not) make others like him feel somehow excluded from any of its events in the same way?
The man is already self-conscious about this matter. Now should he have to blow a trumpet everywhere that he goes and announce: Hear ye, Hear ye, I am hopelessly addicted? I hope not! But deliberately or not, he is still made to feel unwelcome since he now wants to escape his old ways. Rather, he should be supported that he already wants to quit. Let us “bear one another’s burdens” and let me beware myself too. I must consider myself, lest I also be tempted by it.

“envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God….

Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”

(Galatians 5:21; 6:1-2)

We are not of the night nor of darkness. I do hope all will agree that church events without any alcohol are never the worse because they are without it.

“The harp and the strings, The tambourine and flute, And wine are in their feasts; But they do not regard the work of the LORD, Nor consider the operation of His hands. Therefore my people have gone into captivity, Because they have no knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitude dried up with thirst.”

(Isaiah 5:12-13)

See: Bible says be sober again and again

“³ But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
⁴ For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.”

(2 Corinthians 11:3-4)

Re: “How did Jesus celebrate? With Sam Chan.” The event description says: “Did you know Jesus was accused of partying too hard?” The same event description is repeated from an earlier message of Sam Chan (4 Feb. 2018). I quote his very deceiving and shameful statements about another Jesus (supposedly) getting people drunk (and very drunk):

…going on for days and days and days. The alcohol has run out. The guests are drunk, what would you and I do? We would say, okay, you guys have had enough, no more and we’re out of alcohol anyway. Jesus instead turns water into wine. Not just any wine, but good wine. And not just good wine, but lots of good wine. If Jesus was around today, He would fail the responsible serving of alcohol license; it would be revoked from Him. But He’s getting people who’ve already had way too much to drink more wine, more good wine, and lots of more good wine. Why would Jesus do this? Because … our deepest desires and needs are fulfilled by food and drink… And in the same way our deepest desires are fulfilled by Jesus.

But unlike Sam Chan, I say food and drink can never fulfill our deepest desires and needs – only Christ can truly do that! All the glory is Christ’s.

Say, do you believe Sam Chan is speaking the truth about how Jesus Christ affects the rest of our lives? It is not enough for him to admit Jesus “probably” did not get drunk Himself.

Paul proclaims the truth:

“³³ Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
³⁴ Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.”

(1 Corinthians 15:33-34)

Likewise Peter proclaims the true Christ, the true gospel, the true Holy Spirit:

“¹ Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
² so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.
³ For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
⁴ With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;
⁵ but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
⁶ For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.
⁷ The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.”

(1 Peter 4:1-7)

^“44 Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
⁴⁵ “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? ⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. ⁴⁷ Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. ⁴⁸ But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’ ⁴⁹ and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards, ⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know ⁵¹ and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

(Matthew 24:44-51)

All these passages show the true Jesus would never ever get anybody drunk at all.
His miracle at Cana is for a sign to manifest His glory  – and is never intended to encourage anybody’s “drunkenness, orgies, and drinking parties”!

Nephalism definition

Nephalism: teetotalism; total abstinence from consuming alcohol.

Nephalism: “total abstinence from alcoholic beverages” (Miriam-Webster Dictionary)

This term is of Greek origin, and found in Scripture.

Nephō: “to be free from the influence of intoxicants.” (Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words)

Nēphaleos: “of drink, unmixed with wine… sober … of persons” (Liddell and Scott Lexicon)

Nephalism examples in Scripture

“Old men must be {νηφαλίους} teetotal…” (Titus 2:2)

Deaconesses: these women must be “{νηφαλίους} teetotal, faithful in all things” (1 Timothy 3:11)