Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07023 Baptism is a significant and serious act of Christian obedience. It is also one of the most debated subjects in Christian theology, with genuine disagreement not just about its mode but about what it actually does. The question of whether baptism is necessary for salvation goes to the heart of the gospel itself:…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07024 The phrase “sinner’s prayer” is familiar in evangelical Christianity and has been used in countless evangelistic contexts, from crusades to personal conversations. The term itself does not appear in Scripture, and there is no prescribed formula anywhere in the New Testament that functions as a verbal key to salvation. Understanding what the sinner’s…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion Q07090 Every pastor encounters this pastoral challenge eventually: someone who has walked to the front of a church, raised a hand, prayed a sinner’s prayer, or signed a decision card on multiple occasions, yet whose life shows no discernible evidence that anything real happened. The temptation is to call them forward again, to repeat…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07032 The phrase ordo salutis is Latin for “order of salvation,” and it refers to the logical sequence of the various elements involved in a person coming to salvation and continuing in the Christian life. It is a theological framework rather than a biblical phrase, but the question it addresses is thoroughly biblical: does…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 7068 The Free Grace movement is a strand of evangelical theology arguing that saving faith consists simply in believing God’s promise of eternal life to the one who trusts in Christ, with repentance, commitment to discipleship, and acknowledgment of Christ’s lordship all understood as belonging to sanctification rather than to justification. It is not…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 6040 Few questions press harder on faith than this one. A faithful believer loses a child to cancer while a corrupt businessman retires in comfort. A woman who has served God for decades is consumed by chronic pain, while someone who gives no thought to God at all seems to sail through life without…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 9003 Baptism is one of the two ordinances that Jesus gave to the Church, and yet it has been a source of disagreement among Christians for centuries. One of the most fundamental questions is simply this: who is a proper candidate for baptism? Should everyone be baptised? Only adults? What about children? Let us…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 3039 If salvation comes only through faith in Jesus, what about all those who lived before He came? Were Abraham, Moses, David, and the prophets saved? If so, how? They never heard the name of Jesus. They never knew about the cross. How can the death of Jesus two thousand years ago have any…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1133 The word “deconstruction” has become unavoidable in Christian conversations. Social media is filled with stories of people, often raised in evangelical churches, who are dismantling their faith, questioning everything they were taught, and sometimes walking away from Christianity altogether. What does Scripture have to say about this phenomenon? How should we understand and…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 11072 This question goes to the heart of faithful Christian parenting. Moses commanded Israel: “You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise” (Deuteronomy 6:7). The instruction of…