“I’ve always heard about the Ten Commandments, but where can I find them? Are they in the Bible? I’m embarrassed to ask this, but I didn’t grow up in a religious family and I don’t know anything at all about the Bible or God, although I’d like to.”
“How do you know the Bible is true? Maybe some people just got together one day and made it all up. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a bunch of myths.”
“Is it possible to lead a sinless life, if we just try hard enough? I hope so, because I want to please God and go to heaven someday. But I’m not sure I can measure up, at least not right now.”
“I was hoping that if I got pregnant my boyfriend would decide to marry me, but instead, he suddenly moved out last week and I don’t even know where he is. What should I do now? Please help me, because I’m so confused. Should I get an abortion?”
“Somehow, I’ve managed to get into debt way over my head, and a friend of mine says I ought to take the easy way out, which (he says) would be to declare bankruptcy. Would this be wrong?”
“Does God get angry at me when I have doubts? Most of the time, my faith is fairly strong, but then something will happen that causes me to have doubts. Will God forgive me for this?”
“How can I expect God to forgive me when I can’t even forgive myself? I’ve hurt a lot of people and done a lot of shameful things in my life, but I can’t go back and change the past. I hate what I’ve done, but I’ll never get over my guilt.”
“I believe in Jesus and go to church sometimes and all that, but I don’t think we can know if we’re going to get to heaven until we actually die. I think we just have to do the best we can, and hope everything will turn out OK in the end.”
“How bad do you have to be before God won’t have anything more to do with you? I’ve messed up my life pretty badly, but does this mean God is so disgusted with me that He won’t have anything more to do with me? I hope not, but I’m afraid so.”
“I think I’ll stop taking some of the medicines I’m on, because I think God has maybe healed me. Hasn’t He promised to heal us if we just have enough faith? That’s what someone I heard once on television said.”
“My husband says I’m just a worrier, and maybe I am, but I can’t help but be concerned about all the bad things that might happen to us. I tell him I was just born this way, but he says I need to stop worrying so much. How can I? It’s just the way I am.”
“Since God supposedly knows everything, does this mean He also knows our inner thoughts? Can He look inside our minds and know what we’re thinking? I find that kind of scary, because I’m not sure I want God to know some of the things that go through my mind.”