Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11106 In a culture that often treats marriage as the expected norm and singleness as a problem to be solved, the Bible offers a surprisingly different perspective. Singleness is not a deficiency, not a waiting room, and not a lesser state of Christian existence. Scripture speaks of it with genuine honour and presents it…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11025 Christians often use the words “preaching” and “teaching” interchangeably, as though they describe the same activity. In everyday conversation, the distinction may not matter much. But in Scripture, these are recognisably different gifts and functions, and understanding the difference has practical consequences for how the church organises its ministry and how its leaders…
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…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11020 Jesus did not command His followers to make converts. He commanded them to make disciples. The distinction matters enormously, because it shapes how we understand the church’s mission and what success looks like. A convert has made a decision. A disciple is being transformed. The Great Commission calls us to the longer, harder,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10094 Both historic premillennialism and dispensational premillennialism affirm that Christ will return before the Millennium and reign on earth for a thousand years. On this they agree, and the agreement is significant. But the differences between the two positions are substantial enough that conflating them produces real confusion. Understanding where they converge and where…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10090 The question of whether the Church is promised deliverance from God’s wrath is not a secondary curiosity within eschatology. It goes to the heart of the pretribulational position and has direct bearing on how believers understand their relationship to the coming Tribulation period. If the Church is destined to endure the Tribulation, the…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10009 Few questions in theology carry more weight than this one, and few have generated more confusion. The idea that the Church has permanently replaced Israel in God’s purposes, a position known as replacement theology or supersessionism, has been the majority view in Christian theology for most of the Church’s history. It has also…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10007 The New Covenant occupies a unique position among the biblical covenants because both Israel and the Church claim it as their own, and the question of how it relates to each has generated sustained theological debate. For covenant theology, the New Covenant is evidence that the Church has inherited the promises originally made…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10001 Few theological terms generate as much confusion as dispensationalism. For some, the word conjures images of elaborate prophetic charts and date-setting speculation. For others, it represents a relatively recent theological innovation that should be treated with suspicion. Neither reaction does justice to what dispensationalism actually is, or to why it matters for how…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10003 Dispensational theology and covenant theology represent two of the most influential frameworks for reading the Bible as a unified whole. Both are held by genuine, committed Christians who affirm the authority of Scripture, the deity of Christ, and the gospel of grace. The differences between them are real and consequential, particularly in how…