August 3, 2007 Dear brother Silvio, I have been in prayer for you before undertaking this effort to write to you. After hosting you in my home on numerous occasions and helping you on your way during your missionary endeavors I feel that we have grown close over the years. Therefore, it makes it all the more difficult to write this letter to you after having read your defense for Christians drinking wine. I have my serious doubts that anything that I write may cause you to change your position on wine considering the effort and time that you have put in to trying to justify social drinking for those of the household of God. This is not going to be an attempt to answer your every argument that you proposed in you papers (in fact
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