Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 04028 The work of the Spirit in evangelism is the most overlooked factor in the whole business of telling people about Jesus. We fret about our nerves, our lack of training, our awkward attempts to steer a conversation toward the gospel, and all the while we forget that the decisive worker in any conversion…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 0025. Acts gives us a photograph of the very first Christian community in Jerusalem, taken just after the Day of Pentecost, and the early church devoted itself first of all to the apostles’ teaching. Three thousand people had been baptised in a single day. A small band of disciples had become a movement overnight….
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 0024. The noble Bereans have become a byword in Christian circles for careful discernment, and rightly so. Whenever someone urges us to check a teaching against the Bible rather than swallowing it whole, the noble Bereans get a mention. But it is worth asking what they actually did, and why Luke thought it worth…
Reading Time: 17 minutesQuestion 7199. If Jesus fulfilled the law, why did Paul still offer temple sacrifices in Acts 21, why will sacrifices return in the millennial temple, and why do certain things carry on from one age to the next? The question of temple sacrifices after the cross is one of the genuinely hard knots in Scripture,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11002 Fasting is one of those spiritual disciplines that many Christians know about but few practice. It sounds old-fashioned, perhaps even unhealthy. Yet fasting appears throughout Scripture, both in the Old Testament and the New. Jesus Himself fasted and expected His followers to do likewise. What exactly is fasting, and what place should it…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11017 Evangelism is the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ to those who have not yet believed. It is not a programme, a technique, or a personality type. It is the task given to every believer by the risen Lord Himself, and it is rooted in the conviction that people without Christ are…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11099 In much of the Western church, persecution is something that happens to other people, to Christians in restricted nations, to believers in hostile cultures, to the early church. The assumption is that the normal Christian life, at least in a free society, should be relatively comfortable. Scripture does not share this assumption. The…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 07999 There is no more important question anyone can ever ask. It is the question the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas in Acts 16:30, and Scripture gives a clear answer that cuts through confusion and offers genuine hope to anyone willing to hear it. The Biblical Answer The jailer’s question and Paul’s response…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11023 The Great Commission is the final instruction Jesus gave to His followers before ascending to heaven, and it defines the church’s mission until He returns. It is not one task among many. It is the task, the overarching purpose for which the church exists between the ascension and the Rapture. Understanding it properly…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11021 Missions is not a department of the church’s work. It is the heartbeat of what the church exists to do. From the call of Abraham in Genesis 12 to the vision of every tribe and tongue gathered before the throne in Revelation 7, the Bible tells the story of a God who pursues…