Answers to Questions Listed by Topics Beginning with the Letter "W"
Unless otherwise noted, all answers were written by Jeff Hamilton.
War
- Did the world governments do wrong attacking Afganistan?
- How could the Revolutionary War be justified in light of Romans 13?
- How is war different from acts of retaliation?
- Is modern war still determined by God? How can a person determine which is the right side?
- Is there any biblical support for war?
- May a Christian serve in government?
- Why did God allow slavery or commit genocide?
- Why did God have some people killed if murder is wrong?
- Will Christians go to heaven after killing other Christians?
Weddings
- Are engagements required before a marriage can take place?
- Are wedding receptions based on scripture, or is it traditional?
- Can I still have a church wedding if we committed fornication?
- Do you do weddings?
- I want a small wedding, but my boyfriend doesn't want to spend even that amount of money.
- Should a preacher do weddings?
- Should the church building be used for weddings or funerals?
- We would like to get married, but we can't afford it.
Weights
Willingness
Wisdom
- Is Jesus the wisdom of God?
- Why did the false mother, after being offered the child by the real mother, suddenly declares she wants the baby dead?
Witchcraft
- After the terrible and unthinkable things I did, is there any hope for me, at all, not to be cast to the lake of fire?
- Are psychics real?
- Can a man who divorced his wife for witchcraft marry again?
- Can one person put a curse on another?
- Can my husband be under the spell of a witch?
- Can we talk with those who have died?
- Can witchcraft affect a Christian?
- Can you have an out of body experience or be reincarnated?
- Can't a person be a Christian and an Wiccan?
- Do have some suggestions on how to talk to a youth group about witchcraft?
- Does burning sage release negative energy?
- Does the Ouija board actually work?
- How can I convince my mother that voodoo isn't real?
- How do I get an Ifa priestess' curse off of me?
- How do I stop the curse of women in my family not marrying?
- How do I tell my friend that he is being deceived by a woman claiming to have powers from a goddess?
- How do you know if you were a victim of witchcraft?
- I don't practice witchcraft anymore because the Bible says it is wrong, but I still feel no evil acts are done by Wiccans. Am I wrong to feel this way?
- I feel someone has put a spell on me.
- I prayed to God but He doesn't answer me. Your God is asleep!
- My granddaughter has turned to witchcraft. Will she be with us with the Lord returns?
- My husband has been bewitched into abandoning his family
- My mother thought she was a witch. Could she have harmed someone?
- Should I fear witchcraft?
- What about ghosts and speaking with the dead?
- What do I do about a person involved in witchcraft?
- What does the Bible say about having a fetish?
- What if you were forced into believing witchcraft?
- "Witchcraft isn't evil. I don't believe in evil. It depends on each individual."
- Your explanation of pharmakeia is poor
Withdrawal, Withdrawing
- A friend has left Christ. How should I handle this?
- Am I sinning if I enjoy vacations and meals with a man who left the Lord's church for a denomination?
- Are there exceptions to withdrawal?
- Can a preacher kick members out of a church?
- Can someone be withdrawn from for not moving his seat during worship?
- Do I go to my brother's birthday party? He fell way from Christ years ago.
- Do parents have a responsiblity to let adult children, living in sin, live in their home?
- Do we withdraw from members who are attending another congregation for months?
- Do we withdraw from sinners if they are only here a few months each year?
- Does the Bible talk about members withdrawing from the church?
- Does the church curse an erring brother when withdrawing from him?
- How can a church accept an improperly divorced couple?
- How do I get my parents to see that they are enabling my sister to be a drug user?
- How do I relate with my mother who was withdrawn from years ago?
- How do I treat a roommate who has been withdrawn from?
- How do I treat my brother who has rejected being a Christian?
- How do you deal with sin in the church when the elders disagree?
- How does a disfellowshiped Christian worship God?
- I left the church because I don't think my baptism was right, but now my dad won't have fellowship with me. What do I do?
- If a person sins, must they be kicked out of the church, even if they had repented?
- If someone attends, but hasn't become a member, and then stops coming, should you withdraw from him?
- If someone refuses to repent, are they still considered brethren?
- Is it right to kick people out of the church for openly sinning, even though all people are sinners?
- Is it right to stay away from my brother's mistress?
- Is withdrawing removing someone from a church's membership role?
- Should a member be disciplined for divorcing his wife?
- Should a parent visit a child who is now unfaithful?
- Should I leave a church that is not withdrawing from sinful members?
- Should someone who says he is gay lead singing in a congregation?
- Was the church right to withdraw from a couple who lived together without being married?
- We have a man who is on his third wife attending services. What do we do?
- What do we do if a withdrawn from relative comes to a family gathering?
- What do you do about a couple who disrupts the services of the church?
- What do you do when the preacher is in sin and the leadership supports him?
- What should be done about a girl who is unmarried, pregnant and not willing to repent?
- What should be done about a woman who repeatedly has children by different men?
- What should our relationship be with our daughter who has just moved in with her boyfriend?
- What should be done when there are couples in the church living together without being married?
- Where do you draw the line with sinful relatives?
- Where is the line drawn between false teachings and matters of conscience?
- Why did Paul say he handed over Hymenaeus and Alexander to Satan?
Witnessing
Woman's Role
- Are the writings of women a form of teaching men?
- Are women prohibited from ever teaching men in an assembly of any kind?
- Can a man give a woman permission to lead a part of the worship service?
- Can a woman correct a man who is sinning directly?
- Can a woman baptize someone?
- Can a woman be a judge?
- Can a woman be a pastor?
- Can a woman be a preacher?
- Can a woman be an Associate Campus Minister?
- Can a woman be the educational leader in a church?
- Can a woman do the bookkeeping and generate financial reports for the church?
- Can a woman lead a song while giving testimony in church?
- Can a woman lead prayers at home when her husband is present?
- Can a woman run the sound board in a church service?
- Can a woman sign for the deaf during worship?
- Can a woman speak out in response to a question or to say "amen" during the worship?
- Can a woman teach a man in private?
- Can a woman teach a teenage boy?
- Can a woman teach a third grade boy who has been baptized?
- Can the preacher use his time to conduct a Bible class during the worship service?
- Can women help in serving the Lord's Supper?
- Can you help me respond to some questions on women's role?
- Could you clarify when women may speak in church?
- Do you allow women to teach or lead prayer in the assembly as long as they wear a covering?
- Does Acts 2:17-18 prove women can be preachers?
- Does God expect women to stay at home?
- Does I Corinthians 14:34 only apply to the church in Corinth?
- Does I Timothy 2:11-12 only apply to the assembly?
- Does the command for a woman not to teach only apply to the assembly?
- Does "the whole church" refer only to the men?
- Don't women have the same job as men in teaching the Gospel?
- How are prayers handled when a woman's husband is not a Christian?
- How can it be possible for God to call me, and thousands of other God-following women to speak in church, yet the Bible seems to say they can't?
- How do I talk to my husband about God?
- How do I teach my fiance that dancing in worship, instrumental music, and women preachers are a big deal if you want to please God?
- How do I respond to my World History teacher?
- I almost went back home until someone saw me and smiled
- I have concerns about the Catholic church's teachings on celibacy for priests, women's status in the church, and the condemnation of homosexuality.
- If a woman can't lead prayer then she shouldn't discipline or deal with finances
- If women cannot preach, then why can they sing?
- Is a marriage still valid if done by a woman?
- Is it right for a woman to be over a Sunday school department so long as the preacher over her is a man?
- Is it wrong for a woman to talk about the Bible on Facebook?
- Is it wrong for teenage girls to give a report to the congregation during the worship service?
- Is it wrong for the husband to cook instead of the wife?
- Is the Bible male oriented?
- I've been involved in acts of lewdness with a married man while leading a church. What do I do?
- Must a woman bear children to be saved?
- My congregation is becoming more unscriptural. Should I find another one?
- My pastor says God told her that I shouldn't marry my fiance. What do I do?
- Should a woman be on the committee to select elders?
- Should a woman head the government?
- Should a woman stay home and not work to take care of the children?
- Should women submit to female leaders in the church?
- The pastor in the church we are in slapped my wife and called her a derogatory name. What should we do?
- What can be done about women who speak out of turn in Bible class?
- What do you do if a girl offers to lead a prayer?
- What kinds of speaking out in assemblies would a woman not be permitted to do?
- When and where can women teach today?
- Why can't women be priests?
- Why can't women lead singing, serve at the Lord's table, and lead prayer?
- Why do some women wear a cloth on their heads during worship?
- Withdrawing is too judgmental
Women
- Are women less than men?
- Can a woman only become spiritually mature in marriage?
- Can a woman's womb be reopen?
- Did Mary lead prayers? Did people receive all the gifts of the Spirit?
- How long does a woman's hair have to be?
- Is it wrong for a younger woman to teach older women?
- Is the Bible sexist?
- Was God sexist in punishing Eve?
- What does it mean to gird yourself with strength?
- What is a lady?
- What woman in the Bible had the most children and how many did she have?
- Where in the Bible did a Jewish woman become queen?
- Why were women valued less than men in the Old Testament?
Work
- Are Christians commanded to physically labor?
- Are the commands to work directed to men only or both men and women?
- Is Paul saying that only if we don't work, then God will make us righteous?
- Questions about Boaz
- Should a woman stay home and not work to take care of the children?
Works
- Did Cornelius need to work before or after his salvation?
- Did the thief on the cross work when he rebuked the other thief?
- Do you believe that the only way to heaven is by accepting Jesus as your Savior and not by good deeds or grace?
- Does God expect us to do our part?
- Doesn't Jesus rebuke those who did works in his name?
- How can faith be combined with works?
- How can righteousness be apart from works when faith is a work?
- How can we not be saved by works, but must do the things God requires of us to be saved?
- How do I find opportunities to do good?
- If I do all the commandments, when will I do enough?
- Is faith a work that God does to a person?
- Is it too simple to say we are to believe and we will be saved by God's grace?
- Is water baptism a work?
- Since teaching is a work, then it doesn't save. Right?
- Were the works Abraham did, as discussed in James, only to men?
- What is a work?
- What is exactly meant by works?
- What saved Joshua and Caleb?
- What would be considered "works?"
- Your theology that we will be judged by works is false doctrine
Worry
- Any suggestions for obsessive worrying?
- How do I stop worrying about other people?
- How do you seek first the kingdom of God?
- I still worry about unforgiveable sin. What do I do?
- Is survival preparation sinful?
- I'm worried that my son will be too short.
- What am I going to do tomorrow?
- What do you consider to be worry?
- What does it mean to give your problems to the Lord?
- When I learn about the Bible, I get anxious that I'm not doing well enough
- See also Anxiety
Worship
- Acts 20:7 doesn't speak of worship, does it?
- Are Christians to tithe?
- Are small group meetings in place of the Sunday evening assembly or midweek study scriptural?
- Can a brother committing fornication be used in the church worship?
- Can a Christian's worship be hindered if they are in sin?
- Can a man give a woman permission to lead a part of the worship service?
- Can a non-Christian lead the congregation?
- Can a seventeen year old conduct worship?
- Can a short service be held in a shut-in's home?
- Can a visiting Christian lead a congregation in song?
- Can a woman speak out in response to a question or to say "amen" during the worship?
- Can non-Christians worship God?
- Can the preacher use his time to conduct a Bible class during the worship service?
- Can women help in serving the Lord's Supper?
- Could you clarify when women may speak in church?
- Didn't the Christians in Troas worship on the Sabbath?
- Does a long service affect ones relationship with God?
- Does a person have to attend church?
- Does God put a yearning in our hearts for Him?
- Does the Bible say the church worshiped on Sunday?
- Does worship have to be on Sunday?
- Have I been worshiping in vain all these years by using instrumental music in worship?
- How can you prove that the New Testament contains God's only pattern for worship in the Lord's church today?
- How do we praise God?
- How do you deal with a woman who brings her dog to worship?
- How do you worship God Monday through Saturday?
- How does a disfellowshiped Christian worship God?
- How do you know that Ephesians 5:19 is speaking about worship?
- I want to sing, but I'm afraid of being in front of others. What do I do?
- If God gives us talent, then can we not use that talent to worship God?
- If I am just not able to get out, can I worship at home?
- Is having members quote memory verses during worship proper?
- Is it a sin to go to a youth group or chapel service during the week?
- Is it necessary to fast or to give something up for God?
- Is it possible to feel the presence of God when one worships Him?
- Is it scriptural to go to church via the Internet?
- Is it wrong to clap or raise hands during singing?
- Is it wrong to get agitated at having baby dedication ceremonies during worship?
- Is it wrong to make recordings during worship?
- Is singing and prayers during mid-week Bible study worship?
- Is Sunday the only day of worship or can we worship God any day?
- Isn't the word "day" added to Acts 20:7?
- It doesn't seem that Hebrews 10:25 is the right verse to explain why children's church is wrong.
- Should a church have time in worship for members to pray quietly?
- Should Christians sing during the Lord's supper?
- Should I attend my girlfriend's church if I think it teaches false doctrine?
- Should I visit congregations that are changing how things are done?
- Should someone who says he is gay lead singing in a congregation?
- Should young boys lead singing in worship?
- There are people talking, playing, and walking around during worship. Am I being too critical to say this is wrong?
- What do you do if you can't worship with faithful brethren?
- What do you think about my statement of belief regarding the Lord's supper?
- What do you think about partaking of the Lord's Supper after a dinner?
- What is the purpose of praise and worship?
- What should be done when everyone doesn't follow the song leader?
- When should an invitation be offered?
- Where does the Scripture mention buying a building?
- Who should we worship: God, the Father, or Jesus Christ?
- Why are singing, praying, communion, and giving called worship?
- Why did the Israelites add an extra week to the Feast of Unleavened Bread?
- Why do Christians worship on Sunday instead of Saturday?
- Why don't you keep Pentecost?
- Why shouldn't the Lord's Supper be served again for late comers?
- You only worship on Sunday because Constantine changed the day of worship
