Ask the pastor
Questions. We've all got them. What's bothering you?
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Maybe you don't know how to handle a situation you're faced with, maybe you're wondering if God exists, or maybe you heard something at church that doesn't seem to make sense? Here's your chance to put your questions on life issues or God stuff, fun or serious, to our senior pastor, Tony Summerfield. Post your question anonymously through this box and then check back here to see Tony's reply. He doesn't pretend to know everything, but he will do his best to help! |
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Previous Questions
- Ask the Pastor: Holy Living
Pastor, I know I'm far from perfect, but should we as a body of Christ not set our standards higher than that of our unsaved friends, neighbours and colleagues? I'm shocked how many self-professing Christians go see unsavoury movies, listen to inappropriate music, use bad language, go to the pubs and even are fine with having sex and living together prior to marriage. I'm not in favour of legalism, but I would appreciate a sermon on holy living one Sunday.
- Ask the Pastor: Prayer Alters
Should we have prayer altars in our homes to pray/worship to God?
- Ask the Pastor: Was my conversion real?
Everyone I know can remember the date, place and all the details of when they gave their life to Jesus and first said the prayer. I can only remember where and who was there - I can't even remember how I felt afterwards. Does that mean I didn't really give my life properly?
- Ask the Pastor: What was Paul's "Thorn in the Flesh?"
What exactly was Paul's 'thorn in the flesh'? (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)
- Ask the Pastor: The Spirit of Truth
Why is the Holy Spirit called the Spirit of Truth and does every Christian get filled with the Spirit in the way that happened to the Apostles in Acts?
- Ask the Pastor: Christians and Alcohol
Q: Why does alcohol have to play such a vital role in the lives of Christians? The topic of wine-bibbing often comes up in conversation. How do you suggest we handle this topic?
- Ask the Pastor: What is the "lying pen of scribes?"
Ask the Pastor: Jeremiah 8:8 says "What is this holy book of God? It is nothing but a pack of falsehoods written by the lying pen of scribes." What does the Bible mean by this?
- Ask the Pastor: Which Bible translation is best?
Which current translation of the Bible gives the closest meaning to the original writing/meaning?
- Ask the Pastor: What does the old HCC logo mean?
I was doing my RE homework and had to do a poster about why RE is important. I was looking for pictures to do with our church and found one of the cross with a tail coming from it. Why does the cross have a tail coming from it?
- Ask the Pastor: Sex before marriage
Does the Christian Church today, in the twenty-first century, still preach that there must be no sex (or living together) before marriage?
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