Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 06059 The statement in Matthew 5:29–30 has unsettled readers since it was first spoken, which is probably part of the point. “If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11009 Work is not a consequence of the fall. It is one of the most frequently misunderstood aspects of the biblical story, because many people assume that labour is a curse imposed on humanity after Genesis 3. In fact, God gave Adam meaningful work before sin entered the picture, and Scripture treats honest work…
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 11008 Few pastoral questions carry more emotional weight than the question of remarriage after divorce. Churches have sometimes handled this issue with a harshness that compounds the pain of broken marriages, and at other times with a permissiveness that ignores what Scripture actually teaches. The Bible does not leave us without direction on this…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12057 In a culture that treats sexual expression as a fundamental right and virginity as an embarrassment, the question of sex before marriage can feel almost quaint. Yet Scripture speaks to it with clarity that has not diminished with the centuries, and the church’s task is to state what the Bible teaches honestly, compassionately,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12056 Few parenting topics generate as much debate among Christians as physical discipline. The wider culture has moved decisively against it, and in many countries legislation now prohibits any form of corporal punishment. Yet Scripture contains explicit references to physical correction, and many faithful Christians have practised it for generations. The question is what…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12054 Few subjects provoke as much tension among Christians as family planning and reproductive choices. The silence of many churches on this topic has left believers to navigate deeply personal decisions with little biblical guidance, often absorbing secular assumptions without realising it. The question is not whether Scripture speaks to these matters, but whether…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11102 The relationship between secular counselling and Christian faith has been contested territory for decades. Some believers regard therapy as a purely secular enterprise that has no place in the life of someone who has the Bible and the Holy Spirit. Others have embraced therapeutic culture so uncritically that it has reshaped their understanding…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11100 Mental illness is one of the areas where the church has often failed its own people. Whether through ignorance, fear, or a misguided belief that all psychological suffering is fundamentally spiritual in origin, many believers have been left without the help they need. A biblical view of mental illness must take seriously both…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11099 In much of the Western church, persecution is something that happens to other people, to Christians in restricted nations, to believers in hostile cultures, to the early church. The assumption is that the normal Christian life, at least in a free society, should be relatively comfortable. Scripture does not share this assumption. The…