How can your kids be disciplined spiritually – when they are non-believers? And what can you do spiritually if your children are teenagers and do not listen or obey you?
Genesis 6:2-4; 1 Samuel 17:4; 1 Chronicles 20:15. If giants were a result of angels and then the flood came, how did Goliath and his brother get to be Giants?
How do we draw the line between in the world and of the world?
Are people born gay? Is it a calling for ministry?
A statement was made today that men are not responsible for modesty. Isn’t it the husband (and father) who answers to God and has ultimate responsibility for what happens in his home? Prov. 30:19. As a woman, how can I know what is indecent to a man. Men think differently than women, and I as a woman need and appreciate my father’s input on modesty. While my mother was very important in helping me to be modest, sometimes my father’s opinion was critical because we don’t know how men think.
I know that we must obey the authorities that God has set up to rule over us… but do we have to obey them if they are trying to make us do something that is against Scripture?
As a young person, I find it hard to transfer a conversation that is not pleasing to the Lord into something positive. For me personally, conversations like this happen with those that are older than I, and I’m unsure also how I should end that conversation. Is it my place to tell someone who should be respected that the topic brought up doesn’t honor the Lord? Do I just change the subject? … And if I go this route, is this not speaking out for the Lord? 1 Tim 5:1; Phil. 4:8.
Is it bad to love our life? Because we have it better than so many people in the world, so shouldn’t we love how good we have it? John 12:25 says, “He who loves his life shall lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” So are we supposed to hate our life?
Does “unequally yoked” refer to more than just a believer and an unbeliever? Can it also mean a new believer with someone who has been studying the word for a long time?
If I’m traveling for work and there’s no meeting around for 300 miles, why shouldn’t I go out to an a Evangelical Church not breaking bread but to enjoy fellowship with other Christians and worship the Lord? I’ve been told that it’s better not to go anywhere. I feel like this is saying I have no need of these other members of Christ’s body. 1 Corinthians 12:14-27. Which option is better? Going to a church or spending Sunday morning alone with the Lord?
Why is it when a brother and sister in Christ come from another meeting room they are not allowed to break bread with us?
Is circumcision required? It doesn’t seem to be emphasized at all in the New Testament in comparison to the Old Testament. Is it because it is not required under the New covenant like baptism is?
If someone decides they no longer feel they should break bread, what is the proper procedure the assembly should follow? Should you treat them as if they were put out of fellowship? Would they still be able to attend conferences/Young peoples ?