Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 7061 At Christian camps, conferences, and evangelistic meetings, the call to re-dedication is a familiar one. A believer who has drifted steps forward to renew their commitment, making promises they genuinely intend to keep. A question sometimes surfaces in that moment, and it is a serious one: does this mean I was never truly…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 7060 The word “backslider” carries more weight in older Christian usage than it does in most modern translations, but the reality it describes is woven through the entire New Testament. It refers to a genuine believer who has withdrawn from active fellowship with God, whose spiritual life has contracted, whose once-warm faith has grown…
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: 3 minutesQuestion 2080 The death of the child born to David and Bathsheba is one of the most emotionally difficult passages in the Old Testament. It comes in the wake of one of Scripture’s most devastating accounts of moral collapse: adultery, deception, and the calculated murder of an innocent man. And in the middle of the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 6008 Confession is one of those words that Christians use frequently but do not always understand clearly. We know we are supposed to confess our sins, but what exactly does that mean? Is it merely admitting we did something wrong? Is it a formal ritual to be performed in a certain way? What happens…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 4004 Ephesians 4:30 contains a command that is both sobering and, on reflection, remarkable: “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.” That the Spirit of God can be grieved is not a peripheral observation. It tells us something important about who the Spirit…
Reading Time: 10 minutesQuestion 7053 When someone comes to faith in Jesus, what should they be taught first? The writer to the Hebrews gives us the answer in chapter 6, verses 1-3, where he lists six foundational teachings that every believer needs to grasp before moving on to deeper things. These are not optional extras or advanced theology…