Episode 184 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions.
Key questions answered in today’s show:
1. What is the difference between being obedient to earn salvation and being obedient as a Christian? For some reason I don’t understand what the real difference is?
2. How often should we evangelize? Can we take part in anything and not evangelize?
3. What do you mean by the Word creates the church? How does the Bible create the church? Didn’t the church pick which books went into the Bible?
4. What is the difference between giving the reason for our hope and being argumentative?
5. How can I enjoy life and life happily without being attached to the things of this world?
6. Is it wrong for Christians to use birth control?
7. When people say that being a member of a church is necessary for salvation, it confuses me because I thought we were saved by faith?
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