Andrew Wingfield Digby interviews Pastor Memory Tapfumaney (Oxford Living Word Fellowship), Vija Herefoss (Latvian missiologist), Jill Rowe (Oasis Trust), Gordon Showell-Rogers (European Evangelical Alliance), and Jason Lane (Innovista).

Questions and discussion

Andrew explains how the grace of God is revealed not only in David’s restoration and forgiveness but in showing him the seriousness of sin

‘Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners’. Donald focuses on salvation as rescue. This is illustrated in the Old Testament in the Exodus, the references in the Psalms to rescue from enemies, and God’s rescue of his people from exile in Babylon. The New Testament develops this understanding: in Christ we are rescued from the power of sin, exemplified by our ‘slavery’, to passions, to ignorance and unbelief, and to ‘meaningless lives’.

The infamous story of Amnon and Tamar - or - how not to deal with sexual sin. Lessons gleaned from mistakes.

The Corinthian church was immature, divided, being built poorly on a shaky foundation, and at risk of being unfit for purpose. Paul speaks of how the church should be whole, structurally sound and fit for God's purpose since the church belongs to God, is built on Christ and brims with the Spirit.