Can a Christian Work in the Production Factory of an Alcoholic Spirits Company?
1) Direct Answer
No. A Christian should not work in the production of alcoholic spirits. It joins your hands to a trade that feeds drunkenness and the ruin it brings. The cleanest walk is separation from it.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Ephesians 5:18: “Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.” If God commands us away from intoxication, we should not make a living by supplying what causes it.
- Proverbs 20:1: “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
- Proverbs 23:31-32: “Look not thou upon the wine when it is red… at the last it biteth like a serpent.”
- Habakkuk 2:15: “Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him….” If there is a woe on the giver, there is a warning to the maker and supplier.
- Romans 14:21: “It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth.” Producing what causes stumbling makes you a participant.
- Ephesians 5:11: “Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
- 1 Timothy 5:22: “Neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.”
- 1 Thessalonians 5:22: “Abstain from all appearance of evil.”
- 1 Corinthians 10:31-33: Do all to the glory of God, seeking not your own profit but the good of many.
Now notice, the Bible plainly shows there was real wine in Scripture, yet it also plainly condemns drunkenness and any practice that leads a brother into bondage. The highest, safest testimony is abstinence and separation.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- If God says “woe” to the one who gives drink that leads to shame, how could I take wages for making and supplying it?
- If I’m called to help people out of snares, why would I help produce the snare?
- Can I honestly do that work “to the glory of God” and with a clear conscience, knowing its intended effect is intoxication and that it destroys homes, health, and souls?
4) Reinforcing Statement
Come out from it. Trust the Lord to make a way for honest work that doesn’t compromise your testimony. If you are already employed there, seek a clean transition, pray for open doors, and step away as soon as the Lord provides. God honors those who purpose in their heart not to be defiled, and He will make a better way.
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