Can’t someone make commitments and keep promises to a church without being a member?
Big Questions
Our panel of contributors replies to questions from readers on topics like these: ethics, relationships, missional living, faith formation, vocation/calling, digital life, church/Bible/doctrine, and stewardship. Got a question you’d like answered?
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When we are broken and humbled, acts of kindness convey God’s care in ways that spark and refresh our sense of being called to serve God.
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He tried to say at the end that creation, like salvation, is all about grace, but it seems to me that environmental sermons are a bit fluffy and sermons instead should be about the gospel of the saving grace of Jesus
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There seem to be only three persons absolutely necessary to make a marriage a Christian marriage: the man, the woman, and God.
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One of the reasons the “attractional church model” is being questioned today is the realization that it often produces consumers more than it makes disciples.
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Reasons for busyness vary from family to family, but one reason is we don’t want to miss out on anything.
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You cannot resolve the conflicts within your parents’ marriage that are highlighted by these political differences.
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Experts can usually tell when something has been manipulated, but what about the rest of us?
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Many of my students ask whether you can have a calling if you do not believe in God.
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There’s a certain spirituality that adorned our council rooms in the past, and that’s what might be oozing away.
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Is it smart to give money outright like this to young people with no directions?
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A church denomination intent on family unity has a chance of finding a way to remain united.
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The Bible says God hates “lying lips,” but there are also stories, such as Rahab helping the Israelite spies, where lying seems to be a good thing. So is lying sometimes okay?
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When broken people come to churches, they are looking for people who have walked in their shoes. They are seeking a community that becomes a safe place.
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Faith questions are and should be asked as teens start to make faith their own.
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My kid threw a fit when she saw the photos I had posted of her online. I think she’s overreacting, but what do you think?
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One of the quickest and easiest ways to fill a void in our lives is to buy something, and our mind convinces us for a moment that this will cure our ills.
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Everything Christians do for the Lord has significance not only for this life, but for the life to come.
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The author of Genesis had no intention of giving us a 21st-century, scientifically precise account of how God created all things.
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Each individual has a unique genetic makeup, social history, and personality, and each teen will navigate this identity crisis in his or her own way.
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It takes a delicate balance to identify what helps children to worship and what disrupts worship.
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“Righteousness” is another word for “justice,” which can be understood to mean something like “treating each person, thing, or situation rightly or correctly.”
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As a Reformed Christian, I believe God cares deeply about how we steward the Earth as faithful people of God.
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The deacons say that most people are paying electronically. I’ve even heard of churches that allow people to swipe a credit card in the service. Isn’t this undermining the worshipful nature of the offering?