Question of the Week: How do I respond when my children claim to be atheists/agnostics?
Verses: John 16:7-14, Romans 2:4

The first and most important thing to remember when sharing the gospel with anyone is that we don’t save anyone. The Holy Spirit’s job is to convict hearts and minds of their need for a Savior. We can at times play a part in that process, but the ultimate decision is between them and God. The hardest thing to do in a love relationship is respect someone’s choices when you know they are the wrong ones. God is willing to respect those decisions. You have the opportunity to share God’s heart when you share with your children. You can share His joy if they accept it, or His heartache when they reject it. However, what we need most from God in those times in His patience and grace as we simply and consistently love them. He is more interested in seeing our children go to Heaven than we’ll ever be. The key to evangelism is simply being available to be used by the Holy Spirit. Without Him we have no hope of showing God’s heart, let alone seeing a soul saved.

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Question of the Week: Is it wrong for Christians to celebrate holidays not mentioned in the Bible?
Verses: Acts 20:7, Romans 14:5-12

No. The celebration of holidays is only controversial if your motives and methods in celebrating it directly conflict with your relationship with God. There are plenty of people who approach holidays like Halloween and Christmas in very non-Christian ways, but that remains between them and God. Just because other people do things on certain days doesn’t mean that is what you are doing. How and why we celebrate anything is between us and God. And so long as you aren’t modeling the motives and methods non-Christians approach these holidays with, (glorifying evil, fornication, drunkenness, etc.), then it’s not sinful. If your conscience still doesn’t want to be apart of these things, you aren’t sinning either. Simply make sure that whatever you’re doing, you’re doing it to focus on and glorify God.

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Question of the Week: What do I have to do in order to be saved?
Verses: Romans 10:9-10, John 6:28-29
The Bible outlines the basic essentials of what makes someone saved. 1. A mental acknowledgement of who Jesus of Nazareth is, The Lord and the Savior of our sins because of what He did on the cross. And 2. A verbal acknowledgment that He has Risen from the Dead to confirm those two facts. That’s all that’s expected of you biblically to become a Christian. Behaving like a Christian comes after this, not before.

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Question of the Week: Are there such things as Satanic symbols or objects Christians should avoid?
Verses: 1 Corinthians 8:4-13
Shapes aren’t Satanic. A shape is only a collection of lines and curves. Pentagrams and other things have been associated with pagan worship over the years, but they only have the impact on you that you give to them. If there are things like statues of Lucifer or ancient tools used for pagan sacrifices, the concern a Christian should have isn’t for the “demons” hiding in them. Their only concern is how others who don’t know Jesus would react seeing those sort of things in your possession. The problem isn’t in the object. The only thing that makes something Satanic is the message it conveys. If something points people away from God, it shouldn’t be something a Christian owns. Not for the sake of their salvation, but their witness and the conscience of those around them.

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Question of the Week: Should Christians avoid offending people?

Verses: Romans 14:20-21, Matthew 10:16

There are two ways a person can be offended. The right way or the wrong way. If someone is offended by truth, then it’s their problem. If someone is offended because we are impolite, vulgar, or disrespectful, then we are the problem. The key is where your focus is. If you’re only interested in being right, than the tendency for pride to creep its way in will end up happening naturally. Our focus needs to be on the benefit of the person we are talking to or interacting with. If our goal is simply to present them the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth like Jesus would through us, then the burden is entirely on them to accept or reject what is being offered to them. If our goal is to win the argument, then you can find yourself winning a debate and losing a soul in the process. Don’t be afraid to let certain points slide until later and keep asking questions. Don’t feel ashamed if you don’t know something and need to get back to them. Just focus on sharing God’s word, and do so with God’s voice and heart. If you keep that balance, then it doesn’t matter who we offend.

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