Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11103 Gender dysphoria is the clinical term for the persistent distress a person experiences when their internal sense of gender does not align with their biological sex. The condition is real. The suffering it causes can be intense and debilitating. The question for the church is not whether to take this suffering seriously, because…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 3001 This is perhaps the most important question any person can ask. It is the question Jesus Himself put to His disciples at Caesarea Philippi: “Who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15). Your answer to this question determines your eternal destiny. It is not enough to know about Jesus; you must know…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11016 The practice of memorising Scripture has declined significantly in the modern church, partly because of the availability of Bible apps and digital search tools, and partly because memorisation of any kind has fallen out of favour in Western education. But the biblical case for hiding God’s Word in the heart is strong, and…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11096 This question arises more often than it should need to, and the fact that it does reflects the influence of certain streams of Christian teaching that have set faith and medicine in opposition to one another. Some believers genuinely wonder whether consulting a doctor represents a failure of trust in God. The biblical…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 12008 The question of lying seems simple enough on the surface. The Bible says not to lie, and that should settle it. But as soon as the question is pressed into real-world situations, complexities emerge that Christians have wrestled with for centuries. What exactly constitutes a lie? Does the prohibition apply without exception? What…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12000 Ethics is one of those words that gets used constantly but rarely defined carefully. In secular culture it tends to mean something like “the general sense of right and wrong that decent people share,” which is vague enough to mean almost anything. For the Christian, the question is far more precise and far…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11092 The question of whether Christians should worship on Saturday (the Sabbath) or Sunday is one that generates considerable debate, particularly with the influence of Seventh-day Adventism and certain Hebrew Roots movements that insist Saturday observance is binding on all believers. Understanding what Scripture teaches about the Sabbath, how the early church transitioned to…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11044 The question of whether Christians should keep the Jewish festivals is one that surfaces regularly, particularly among believers who have developed a deep appreciation for the Old Testament and its richness. Some feel drawn to observing Passover, Tabernacles, or the Day of Atonement as acts of worship. Others insist these feasts are binding…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 09039 The principle of the local church’s autonomy is one of the most distinctive features of Baptist ecclesiology, and it is not a quirk of tradition but a conviction drawn from the New Testament itself. Understanding what local church autonomy means, what it protects, and where its limits lie is essential for any believer…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 09005 Christians who agree that believers should be baptised sometimes disagree about how it should be done. Should the person be fully immersed in water, or is pouring or sprinkling equally valid? The question is not trivial, because the mode of baptism is connected to the meaning of baptism, and the meaning is not…