Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11067 Paul’s command to “walk by the Spirit” (Galatians 5:16) and his instruction to “keep in step with the Spirit” (Galatians 5:25) assume a kind of moment-by-moment awareness of the Spirit’s presence and movement. The New Testament pictures the Christian life as one lived in ongoing, conscious dependence on a divine person who dwells…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 60076 Yinka Oyekan is one of the more visible and genuinely complex figures in contemporary British Baptist life. He is a man of obvious energy, real commitment to evangelism, and personal warmth. He holds positions that many evangelical Baptists would recognise and share, and he holds others that sit in considerable tension with evangelical…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11071 This question cuts right to the heart of Christian living and witness. We live in an age where people often pit truth against love, as though you must choose one or the other. “Speaking the truth is unloving,” some say. Others counter, “Love without truth is meaningless.” But Scripture never presents us with…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8029 Evangelism is the responsibility and privilege of God’s people, but Scripture makes clear that it is never a purely human enterprise. The Holy Spirit convicts, the gospel of Christ is the power of God for salvation (Romans 1:16), and the angels, as ministering spirits serving those who are to inherit salvation, are not…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 7098 Among the various ways Christians have understood what Jesus accomplished on the cross, one stands at the centre of evangelical faith: substitutionary atonement. This doctrine teaches that Jesus died in our place, taking the punishment that our sins deserved so that we might be forgiven. While some today question or reject this understanding,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 7100 What exactly happened when Jesus died on the cross? Christians have always agreed that the cross is central to salvation, but they have understood its meaning in different ways throughout history. Various “theories of the atonement” have been proposed, each highlighting a different aspect of what Jesus accomplished. Some of these theories are…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 7102 Jesus said He came “to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). Paul wrote that Jesus “gave himself as a ransom for all” (1 Timothy 2:6). But what does “ransom” actually mean? The word conjures images of kidnapping and hostage negotiations. Is that what the Bible is teaching? Were we…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60092 Few questions are asked with more rhetorical intent than this one, and yet it deserves a thorough biblical answer rather than an apologetic retreat. The charge is typically that the Bible not only permits slavery but endorses it, and that the transatlantic slave trade of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries was therefore consistent…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 7083 The question sounds simple, but it touches on something of real theological importance. Did the rules change somewhere between Genesis and Acts? Were Old Testament believers saved by keeping the law, by performing sacrifices, or by some arrangement that no longer applies? The way this is answered has profound implications not just for…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04038 Being ‘drunk in the Spirit’ is a phrase used within certain charismatic and neo-charismatic circles to describe a state of apparent spiritual intoxication, characterised by uncontrollable laughter, staggering, slurred speech, and behaviour that mimics physical drunkenness. The phenomenon gained global prominence during the so-called ‘Toronto Blessing’ of 1994 and continues to feature in…