When answering questions, it's helpful to give a direct answer up front and then build it out with more background information, explanation, and application points. This helps the questioner focus in on the main points to better digest them as well as assures the questioner that their question will be answered. We want to make the information as accessible as possible. When answering questions, it can also be helpful to provide succinct definitions for any terms that people use in slightly nuanced ways that make . . .

Please be sure to answer the posed question directly. It is often helpful to address underlying questions as well, but we always want to make sure to answer the actual question, too.Please use Scripture to support your answer. Our answers should be grounded in God's Word, and we want to demonstrate to questioners how to use the Bible appropriately. Please feel free to model to questioners how to study the Bible on one's own. In giving an answer, you can also show how you arrived there.  Please err on the side . . .

Strange assignments: As you know, some question assignments are odd. Some may not seem exactly spiritually-related, others might come across as brash or insincere. As assignors, we do our best to filter out questions that are clearly not in our topic fields or in which questioners are overtly rude. However, we also do our best to make use of every opportunity to share the gospel. Often, responding with truth and kindness communicates the love of God well. So if we send you a question that seems a bit off, please pray and think through how you might . . .