CHURCH AND LIQUOR
Methodist Report Methodists who are not teetotallers should not, simply because of this, be given special pastoral help, according to a report adopted by the North Canterbury Methodist Synod yesterday. “The Church believes that total abstinence is the desirable ultimate objective so far as alcohol drinking is concerned. Nevertheless, total abstinence is not a condition of Church membership,” said the report.
“In any case, it is not always possible to know whether members are nonabstainers.
“The usual pastoral care and oversight should be given to all members, whether or not they are abstainers. If there are members for whom drinking has become a problem, they deserve special pastoral care.”
The Church was, however, entitled to keep its totalabstinence viewpoint charitably before its non-abstaining members. Care should be taken that a sense of separation among members did not result from a holier-than-thou attitude by abstainers.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30531, 28 August 1964, Page 12
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