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Originally Posted by Igzy
I know the elders in Austin were quick to correct situations where "young people" seemed to be stepping across lines. Young people are a unique "problem" in any setting. The LC's solution was to push them around.
I remember one young LC woman in Austin had a bachelorette party with her LC friends before her wedding. It was a modest LC version--the group went out for pizza. Someone got the idea of ordering a pitcher of wine coolers and the girls had a round of drinks. Scandalous? Well, if you are in the LC, yes. The elders got wind of it and the woman ended up standing up in a meeting, confessing, repenting and apologizing profusely. I don't know if she had been compelled to confess, but she had surely been rebuked by someone.
What a humiliating thing for a young bride to have to do. And over a pitcher of wine coolers! Someone forgot to note, I guess, that Jesus transformed water into wine for---you're way ahead of me---a wedding.
Perhaps the issue was that wine coolers are carbonated, and so not in keeping with the Biblical pattern. I don't know, I'm guessing here.
Thank goodness it wasn't a pitcher of margaritas.
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Igzy, each locality handles things differently. One I began meeting with in the early ninties had brothers who smoked cigarettes. It was odd, but never an issue. Since these brothers were adults smoking outside a meeting hall, maybe young people and college age are held to a different standard?
Terry