Inspirited Live

What kind of attitude should Christians have toward reaching others? Does the manner in which we share truth matter? How can we demonstrate acceptance of others while at the same time we are responsible to share the truth with them? Can we love people without sharing truth?

What can we learn from how Jesus ministered to people's needs? What needs were most important to Jesus? How should the church minister today? Is being right more important than the presentation of the message? What did Jesus mean when He called His disciples salt and light?

How does the Holy Spirit give gifts to the church? What purpose do they serve? Why does everyone get different gifts? How do the gifts work together to accomplish Christ's mission? Does God care about our natural talents and abilities? How did Jesus parable of the talents illustrate what we should do with everything God has entrusted to us?

How does the Holy Spirit aid us in our witnessing and sharing of the gospel? What help does He provide and what does He actually do in our lives as well as the lives of others? Why do some call the book of Acts the "Acts of the Holy Spirit"? How does the Holy Spirit still work in the lives of people today?

What impact do our prayers have on God's actions and intervention in the lives of people we pray for? What can we learn from how Jesus prayed for people? What about how Paul prayed? What does the Bible say about unseen forces and the impact of prayer in the midst of spiritual war? Is intercessory prayer still needed and effective today in reaching modern people?

Jesus often saw opportunities where others saw a closed and impossible door. How can we be more mission minded and have church growth eyes and ears today? Can we be guided by the Spirit to opportunities for soul winning? How do we bring people to Christ? What about dealing with difficult people? How do we know when there's an open opportunity?

How can we make friends for God and share our faith with others? How powerful can a personal testimony be? Why? How much should we share? How did Mary,Peter, John, and Paul use their testimonies to reach others and witness to the world? Is a personal testimony always convincing? Why does a changed life matter? What if your testimony wasn't like Paul's?

How can we live by the Word of God? How can we spend time with God and why is spending that time so important? What emphasis did Jesus place on knowing and understanding scripture while He was here on earth? How can we make God our teacher when we study the Bible? How can music help us commit to memory what God says in His Word?

What do we do when we come across difficult passages in the Bible? Should difficulty make you give up your faith? Should we assume there aren't answers simply because we don't know them or they weren't revealed to us immediately? How can searching for answers be a blessing? What kind of attitude or mindset should we have when we come across difficult passages? What is the best resource to use?

How can we understand Bible prophecy? What is the historicist approach? How do we know when to apply the day-year principle? What is the difference between symbols and typology? How did Bible writers and key Biblical figures, including Jesus, demonstrate belief in these principles of interpretation? How do they help us understand the times we live in today?

Is the history of the Bible reliable? Did people like Jesus, David, Solomon, Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar, Abraham, or Moses really live? How can archaeology address the claims of secular critics that the Bible is a myth or work of fantasy? How do we know the events really happened or that these people really lived? How is higher criticism playing a role in secular public education shaping the minds of our youth today?

What is the relationship between science and the Bible? Did the Bible ever teach a flat earth? Did the Creation story borrow from ancient myths? Can we be certain about Biblical history or when that history took place? How did the New Testament authors and Jesus, Himself, view the Creation account?