ABOUT THIS EPISODE
What does it mean to walk by faith? This conversation takes us on a searching journey through Scripture to examine whether the miraculous sign gifts of the apostolic age were meant to continue throughout all of church history or whether they served a specific, completed purpose in God's redemptive plan. At the heart of the discussion is a question about the nature of faith itself.
Drawing from Romans 4, we are pointed to Abraham, who believed God's promise in hope against hope, with no favorable circumstances, no confirming feelings, no external signs to make the promise seem plausible. He simply trusted what God had spoken. That portrait of faith challenges us to ask honestly whether our own spiritual lives are built on the Word of God alone, or whether we are quietly demanding something more to prop up our belief.
Hebrews 1 and Jude 3 are brought into focus as passages that speak to the finality and completeness of God's revelation given through His Son and handed down once for all to the saints. The cumulative witness of Scripture, including the striking silence of the pastoral epistles on the management of sign gifts, invites us to consider whether the Bible in our hands is not a lesser gift but the fullest and most stable foundation we could ever stand on.
