Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 1100. Social justice is a phrase that can mean almost anything depending on who is using it, and I think that ambiguity is exactly why the question deserves careful unpacking rather than a reflexive yes or no. Scripture has an enormous amount to say about justice, about the poor, the widow, the orphan and…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1088. Scripture in evangelism is not a set of proof texts we reach for after we have already made our own case. It is the message itself, and the power that makes the message land. I have shared the gospel in enough settings, from the pulpit to a hospital bedside, to know how tempting…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1020. The Bible’s main message gets lost surprisingly easily under the sheer size and apparent diversity of Scripture, sixty-six books, more than forty authors, several languages, a story stretching across roughly fifteen hundred years, and I want to state that central message plainly rather than leaving it buried under all that surrounding detail. Getting…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 4084. Few questions are as heavy as this one, and I never treat it lightly: is there a point of no return, a place where a person has so hardened themselves against God that they can no longer respond to the gospel at all? My settled answer, drawn carefully from Scripture, is that yes,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1011. Few pastoral questions trouble thoughtful Christians more than this one, and at its heart sits the matter of general revelation. Can a person be saved simply by looking at the created world and following their conscience, without ever hearing the name of Jesus? What about those born in remote places, or those who…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 8. Which doctrines are essential for salvation is a question that deserves great care, because the wrong answer in either direction is dangerous. Make the list too long and you start barring from heaven people the Lord has welcomed. Make it too short and you empty the gospel of its content until almost anything…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12017 This is a question the church cannot avoid, and one that must be answered with both clarity and compassion. The Bible speaks directly and consistently on the subject of homosexuality, and it does so within a broader framework of God’s design for human sexuality that is positive, purposeful, and good. The contemporary debate…
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 12002 Situational ethics is one of those frameworks that sounds reasonable on the surface but unravels when examined carefully. The basic claim is that moral decisions should be made entirely on the basis of the situation at hand, with love as the only absolute principle, and that rigid moral rules should give way when…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 7104 This is perhaps the most important question anyone can ask: How I can have a personal relationship with Jesus. Christianity is not primarily about following a set of rules or joining an institution. It is about knowing a person, Jesus Christ, and being known by Him. The good news is that a personal…