The Red Door Files

Real questions from real people about real life.

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Worship Music

As most (if not all of us), understand the importance of music in our Christian worship. But why? Why is it such an integral part of our worship? What does the Bible tell us about it? Is it unique to the Bible and Christianity? Also, why some Christian music seems less Christian lately? Finally, how is worship music selected at Red Door Church?

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Jono Smith Jono Smith

Forgiveness

I’ve been told that Christians aren’t called to forgive someone who has hurt them until that person apologises. I’m trying to make this fit with the sermon on Sunday (The Unforgiving Servant). Are we called to forgive people who aren’t sorry?

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Halloween

Halloween is coming up. How can I talk to my child about this activity vs Christianity? Should we be participating in it?

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Polygamy

As we study the book of 2nd Samuel and the story of David, we understand that David had multiple wives. So, what does the Bible tell us about polygamy? and was it considered as a sin? (in case of David like his murder and adultery) and was it a widespread practice during Jesus days? and what about the early church and Christians how did they deal with it?

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Aussie Gospel Distortions?

At our Red Door Small Group, we recently finished watching the documentary series called American Gospel alongside our Red Door mini sermon series in the book of Galatians preached by Josh and Tibor.

The message of the film was that the American culture has distorted the gospel by adding promises of “the American dream” of health wealth and prosperity or subtracting from the gospel due cultural factors like the influence of postmodernism. With your knowledge of both cultures, do you think the Australian culture has the same emphasis in churches? If not, can you comment on some dangers and distortions from our Australian culture of the Gospel? What may be typical in Australian churches for us to be alert to?

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The Trinity

Why is the Trinity such a fundamental necessity to believe for the Christian, and why does it matter significantly that Jesus is God incarnate and not just a man who says some challenging stuff?

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Does God Condemn Good People?

I accept that those who are Christ’s people are promised eternal life, and that those who are really bad go in the other direction, but what about those who have not heard anything of God, really good people here on earth who use their lives for good purposes? God is love, why would he judge these with the others?

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Israel vs. Hamas

There’s a lot of different opinions about the current war in Israel and Palestine. Does the Bible help us understand what’s going on?

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Unanswered Prayer

Why does God answer some small prayers (e.g. finding a car park) and not the bigger prayers (e.g healing someone who is sick) when we know that he can?

When we pray for the sick and God doesn’t heal, is it because we lack faith?

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