What does it look like to confront someone who's committing open sin and do it with truth and love?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Hi, it's Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez.

This is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day.

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24 hours a day and email us at questions at core Christianity.com. First up today, here's a

voicemail from one of our listeners. This is Dave. I was wondering, does God come to people in dreams nowadays to prophesy, to tell

others in the church? Thank you for the answer to this question, and God bless you.

Dave, I don't think that that's impossible, and I do think that the Lord can work in and through dreams even today, but ordinarily I don't believe that that's how God is speaking to us. And so if somebody in your church comes and says, I had a dream and here's the interpretation, or maybe you had a dream and it was kind of like, okay, what was that about? And, you know, somebody comes along and says, like Daniel, you know, I'm going to interpret your dream and tell you God's word for you.

I would be highly skeptical of that.

Now, the reason I said I think that God still can and may work today in dreams is because you do hear stories about Muslims, for example, having a dream.

And that being sort of the door that opens them up to the gospel. And someone comes and preaches the gospel to them. And they're

converted. I mean, you're hearing about these kinds of stories in the Middle East. And so, right,

we say, God is free to work however he wants, but ordinarily

he works through means. That is, he communicates his will for us through the word that's clear

and right there in front of us. And one of the tragedies, I think, that you see in the church today

is so many people are dissatisfied with the preached word with the word of

God that we have right here in our hands you can just open up the Bible and they're looking for some

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