Q&A Sunday November 2017 - Audio

Pastor Emmanuel Akognon answers questions submitted by members in the monthly Question and Answer Sunday. 1. I have a question about our unsaved family members - specifically, our children.  I know that the ways of the Lord are not like my ways, and I know that His mercy is beyond what I can wrap my brain around.  But both of my children were baptized - by their own choice - when they were 12 and 13 years old.  Both have since walked away from the Church - but more critically, denied Christ as their Savior.  They are in their mid to late 20s now. I heard in a teaching by Jon Courson that when thinking of our unsaved children, to think of Jeremiah 31: 15 - 17 - and to stand firm in the salvation of our kids.  What are your thoughts on this? 2. My friend and I are both Christians. We believe the Bible as the sole authority in matters of faith and practice. But we are having trouble using biblical language to describe our feelings on a particular subject. The world uses the term “ Vibe” or “ energy” to describe the feeling of someone’s or Somethings demeanor or unspoken essence. For example, the woman who is smiling in our face and praising us, yet you can feel “ Something is not right with this person.” Or when someone is constantly negative and selfish, that just by being around them you become negative. We know as Christians we have discernment given by the Holy Spirit, but when non-Christians use the term, they obviously aren’t talking about discernment by the Holy Spirit. What is the best way to describe what we are ALL feeling? 3. In China alone the estimated number of Christians in the underground church is in the millions and growing, in spite of persecution.  In America we have been lulled into a false sense of security.  How can we, as a church, prepare ourselves for the time in which we also may/will have to go underground too? Matthew 24 4. Recently I watched the hour long documentary called “what the health” it states how harmful all meat and eggs and dairy are to the human body and how much harm it causes in the long run for our health. “Unavoidable” Did Jesus eat meat? And if he did what does it tell us about how and what  we should eat today? 5. Dreams and the Christian faith, how should we view the importance of dreams? Question: "Christian dream interpretation? Are our dreams from God?"