Any Questions?

My top 20 all time favorite questions asked by my students (believers ranging from 17-60 years old; many of these folks have been serving Jesus for a number of years but have had no shepherds or fathers in their lives to feed them):

1. As a new convert, can I hear from God like older Christians do?

2. What was God’s intention in becoming the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?

3. What is the difference between the Holy Spirit and angels?

4. The Bible says that Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father. If He and the Father are one, where is He really sitting?

5. At the marriage supper of the Lamb, who is serving the meal?

6. You said that God is omnipresent, but here in Luke it says that Jesus was in Capernaum?

7. Was God a duality [as opposed to a trinity] before Jesus came?

8. Why didn’t God save all the people who had snake bites? Why only the ones who looked at the bronze serpent?

9. If I understand that so-and-so is a false prophet, can I still go to him for my miracle?

10. You said Melchizedek was and Old Testament appearance of Jesus, and the Angel of the Lord is the same. So, is the angel who appears to Mary to announce Jesus’ birth also Jesus?

11. Did God intend for us to stay naked and foolish in the Garden forever?

12. If I’m living with someone I’m not married to, and on the way to sanctify my marriage I die, will I go to heaven or hell?

13. When I give my tithe to a certain man I get immediate blessings. Is it okay to give it to him if he’s not my pastor?

14. Are there different sizes of the Holy Spirit?

15. My worship leaders are dressing immodestly (wearing trousers) because they want to be like the whites. How do I discipline them without losing them?

16. What is that word “Selah” that we always skip when we read the Psalms?

17. If no man can see God’s face and live, how did Jacob wrestle with Him?

18. Is it right for a married couple to have sex on a Saturday night if the husband (a pastor) is going to preach the next morning? Are there not devils around?

19. The Bible says that all the fat belongs to the Lord. Should I not eat fat?

20. Why did God treat the whites of Israel more specially than the African Egyptians? We in Africa have a bad situation–can God redeem us to be in such a good situation as the whites?

Though many of these are mildly humorous, all of them reveal the severe dearth of understanding of God’s Word among Ugandan churches today. These leaders starve in a land with access to Bibles because they lack laborers to teach and impart to them. TV & radio preachers from America and other nations have succeeded in confusing the Church by emphasizing minor issues and downplaying the majors while each occupies himself on Sunday morning with songs and shouts and exhortations devoid of foundational truth.

What a privilege to be a part of the solution to this monstrous need.