Fallen from Grace

I'm somewhat amused and saddened when religious folk make religious rules for themselves and then expect those rules to apply to everyone - Especially when they apparently don't even read Scripture.

I got a phone call from one of them the other day and here's some ungodly thoughts that were shared:
"Church is church and business is business."
Wow! That sounds akin to putting God on a shelf and pulling Him off when we need something from Him or maybe just when it's convenient.

"I won't even go in (a certain convenience store) because they sell beer."
Another wow!
Though Scripture doesn't say; "Thou shalt not shop where beer is sold", it does say that drunkenness is a sin. Not drinking, but drinking to excess.
Which all goes back to moderation- in all things.
Inlcuding eating.
Eating isn't a sin but overeating is.
The word for that is "gluttony".
We're a non-drinking family. But if I was under a personal conviction to not drink, or even to not shop where alcohol is sold; then I would think that I couldn't pick and choose when to have that conviciton.
That would mean that I would refuse to shop at any grocery store that sells beer and wine.
And I wouldn't shop at Wal-Mart since they also sell alcohol.
As do the gas stations.
And I shop at those places.
And so does the caller.
But I don't purchase the alcohol there.

You who are trying to be justified by law
have been alienated from Christ;
you have fallen away from grace.
Galatians 5:4