# Giving Faithfully, and Q&A

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 1 Jun 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (06/01/26), Hank reminds listeners that June is the end of our fiscal year and lays out two reasons why your financial support of the ministry of the Christian Research Institute is crucial this month. Hank also answers the following questions: When the Bible says, “Fear the Lord,” is this fear as in terror, or something else? John - Neptune, NJ (7:52) In Acts 11, what would giving money to the Church in Jerusalem do to restrain a worldwide famine? John - New Albany, IN (15:12) Must a Christian go to church in order to be saved? (20:53)

## Transcript

[0:07] Speaker 1: You're just in time for the Bible answer Man broadcast
[0:10] Speaker 1: with Hank Canagraph, the radio outreach of the Christian Research Institute.
[0:15] Speaker 1: Our purpose here at CRII is to equip Christians to
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[0:26] Speaker 1: of cults and world religions that deviate from the plumb
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[0:44] Speaker 1: That's equip dot org. The following program was pre recorded.
[0:50] Speaker 1: Now here's the President of the Christian Research Institute, Hank Canigraph.
[0:55] Speaker 2: And thank you for what Randy. It is absolutely incredible
[0:58] Speaker 2: to think that this is the first of June, the
[1:02] Speaker 2: sixth month of the year. The year is flying by,
[1:08] Speaker 2: and this is the most critical month of our fiscal year.
[1:13] Speaker 2: It's the end of our fiscal year, and so I
[1:15] Speaker 2: want to take a moment to speak to those who
[1:18] Speaker 2: support the ministry prayer fully and financially, and as I do,
[1:22] Speaker 2: I want to invite others to consider supporting us financially
[1:28] Speaker 2: as well. The role that those who support this ministry
[1:32] Speaker 2: have played in the ministry has been absolutely critical, and
[1:37] Speaker 2: now it could be more crucial than ever before. Let
[1:43] Speaker 2: me briefly explain just two reasons why why I believe
[1:49] Speaker 2: that your help today could be pivotal to the battles
[1:53] Speaker 2: that we fight on an ongoing basis. Well, first, it
[1:58] Speaker 2: will come as no surprise that Ceri's mission of equipping
[2:01] Speaker 2: Christians to think and to live christianly is crucial. This
[2:08] Speaker 2: mission and all of our outreaches are arguably more important
[2:13] Speaker 2: right now than ever before. And I say that because
[2:17] Speaker 2: current trends in the US, in Canada, indeed much of
[2:21] Speaker 2: the Western world point to a protracted civilizational suicide. And
[2:28] Speaker 2: where once a nation largely grounded in biblical truth could
[2:33] Speaker 2: effectively stem the tide, now biblical literacy has dangerously evaporated.
[2:41] Speaker 2: Consider the fact that fewer than half of all American
[2:46] Speaker 2: adults can name the Four Gospels. Many professing Christians cannot
[2:53] Speaker 2: even identify more than two or three of the Disciples.
[2:59] Speaker 2: More than half of all Americans cannot name five of
[3:04] Speaker 2: the Ten Commandments. Twelve percent of adults, well, they believe
[3:10] Speaker 2: that Joan of arc was Noah's wife, and a survey
[3:13] Speaker 2: of graduating high school seniors revealed that more than fifty
[3:17] Speaker 2: percent thought that Sodom and Gomorrah were a husband and wife,
[3:23] Speaker 2: and a considerable number of respondents to one poll indicated
[3:26] Speaker 2: that Billy Graham preached the Sermon on the Mount. Now,
[3:30] Speaker 2: if the implications of this biblical illiteracy weren't so spiritually
[3:36] Speaker 2: and culturally deadly, those statistics would be worth while a
[3:41] Speaker 2: hearty laugh. Instead, their enough to make caring Christians weep.
[3:48] Speaker 2: And what really makes the current situation so acute is
[3:52] Speaker 2: that just as the spiritual pillars of our nation are
[3:57] Speaker 2: crumbling from the corrosis of acids of secularism, a cultural
[4:03] Speaker 2: storm lots of hurricane force winds is battering us on
[4:08] Speaker 2: all sides. In the US, for example, only three of
[4:12] Speaker 2: ten Americans are now practicing Christians. And so strident are
[4:18] Speaker 2: the efforts to silence the voices for traditional values that
[4:23] Speaker 2: even hinting that you don't support same sex marriage can
[4:29] Speaker 2: evoke howls of bigotry and hate mongering. And while the
[4:34] Speaker 2: assaults on decency, civility, and our religious freedoms are reaching
[4:42] Speaker 2: once unimagined levels, many Christians span a continuum from clueless,
[4:50] Speaker 2: to helplessness, to wanting to make a difference, but simply
[4:55] Speaker 2: not knowing how. And that takes me to the second
[4:59] Speaker 2: reason your support this month, the month of June, is
[5:03] Speaker 2: so vital and why I'm praying that this month you
[5:07] Speaker 2: can join other friends in making what we like to
[5:11] Speaker 2: refer to as an ABCD gift, an above and beyond
[5:17] Speaker 2: the call of duty gift, and that gift to help
[5:21] Speaker 2: meet a pressing financial need. June needs to witness a
[5:26] Speaker 2: genuine rally in giving if we are to avoid cutting
[5:30] Speaker 2: back on the ministries so many depend on, both here
[5:34] Speaker 2: and around the world. You see, just as the value
[5:39] Speaker 2: of vaccines increases during the outbreak of a deadly disease,
[5:43] Speaker 2: so also when assaults on our faith and freedom's mount,
[5:49] Speaker 2: the outreaches of the Christian Research Institute become that much
[5:54] Speaker 2: more crucial, and that in turn makes believers like you,
[5:58] Speaker 2: those who are willing to stand up to speak up,
[6:02] Speaker 2: that much more critical. Very simply, there's nothing that CIRI
[6:10] Speaker 2: does that would be possible without partners like you. From
[6:16] Speaker 2: broadcasts to podcasts, from the Christian Research Journal to ciri's
[6:21] Speaker 2: vast website, resources accessed from America to Zimbabwe, there's no
[6:26] Speaker 2: exaggeration to say that these would all quickly disappear without
[6:31] Speaker 2: friends like you. And again, because June is our second
[6:36] Speaker 2: most important month of the year, next to December, the
[6:39] Speaker 2: most important month of the fiscal year, because it's the
[6:43] Speaker 2: month that ends the fiscal year, We're praying for a
[6:47] Speaker 2: serious rally and outpouring of support. The thought of ever
[6:53] Speaker 2: having to curtail any of our outreaches is a painful thought,
[6:57] Speaker 2: especially when the need for these outreaches has never been greater,
[7:03] Speaker 2: and because an increasingly militant, intolerant, and hostile secularism would
[7:08] Speaker 2: love to silence us. I'll simply ask you to do
[7:11] Speaker 2: all that you can this month to help turn up
[7:14] Speaker 2: the volume for all that your partnership means at this
[7:19] Speaker 2: critical time as we strive to stand courageously for life
[7:24] Speaker 2: and truth. I am deeply grateful because of the challenge
[7:30] Speaker 2: we're facing. I'm praying for a real outpouring of support
[7:36] Speaker 2: and trusting I can hear from friends like you right
[7:39] Speaker 2: away in our stand together for life and truth. Check
[7:43] Speaker 2: it out on the webitquip dot org is simply write
[7:46] Speaker 2: me at box eighty five hundred, Charlotte, North Carolina, ZIP
[7:49] Speaker 2: code two eight two seven one. First up to day
[7:53] Speaker 2: John listening in Neptune, New Jersey. Hi, John, Hi, Heck,
[7:59] Speaker 2: how are you? I'm doing great?
[8:00] Speaker 1: How are you good?
[8:02] Speaker 3: Thanks? I have my question, Hank. I read in the Bible,
[8:06] Speaker 3: in you know, Psalms and Proverbs, you read a lot
[8:10] Speaker 3: about what it says fearing the Lord. Does it actually
[8:14] Speaker 3: mean being afraid or does it need something different?
[8:17] Speaker 2: No, it means reverential awe. And you're right. Solomon talks
[8:21] Speaker 2: often about the fear of the Lord. In fact, in
[8:25] Speaker 2: Proverbs one, verse seven, Solomon says that the fear of
[8:30] Speaker 2: the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. But fools despise
[8:34] Speaker 2: wisdom and instruction. So the fear of the Lord, the
[8:38] Speaker 2: reverential awe of God, is the beginning of knowledge. And
[8:43] Speaker 2: you think about the holiest man in Israel, Isaiah. He
[8:47] Speaker 2: gets one glimpse of the glory of God, and he
[8:50] Speaker 2: comes apart of the seams. Why because when we start
[8:54] Speaker 2: to understand or get a glimpse even of who God is,
[9:00] Speaker 2: everything changes. In fact, we're no longer fear things in
[9:06] Speaker 2: the traditional sense, because we know that that God loves
[9:10] Speaker 2: us so much that he has invited us into the
[9:13] Speaker 2: fellowship of the Trinity, a God that loves us that much,
[9:18] Speaker 2: cares for every single detail of our life. There's not
[9:23] Speaker 2: a single heir that falls from our head that He
[9:26] Speaker 2: does not know about it. That awe of God casts
[9:31] Speaker 2: out fear, and as Solomon says, it is the beginning
[9:35] Speaker 2: of knowledge. And that on the other hand, those that
[9:39] Speaker 2: do not have a reverential awe of God are those
[9:43] Speaker 2: that despise wisdom and instruction. So again, the fear of
[9:47] Speaker 2: the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The fear of
[9:49] Speaker 2: the Lord occurs eleven times in the Book of Proverbs.
[9:53] Speaker 2: I'm very very grateful that you referenced the Book of Proverbs.
[9:59] Speaker 2: To refuse to the fear the Lord is to refuse
[10:02] Speaker 2: to acknowledge the Holy, the righteous, the loving character of
[10:08] Speaker 2: our God, to not trust and serve and worship him.
[10:13] Speaker 2: Now I should add there's also a debilitating kind of fear.
[10:18] Speaker 2: So words take on the meaning that the context allows
[10:23] Speaker 2: them to have. So this debilitating fear is a fear
[10:26] Speaker 2: which Christ rescues us from. In fact, the apostle John says,
[10:31] Speaker 2: there is no fear in love, but perfect love drives
[10:35] Speaker 2: out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The
[10:39] Speaker 2: one who fears is not made in perfect love. So
[10:42] Speaker 2: it's beautiful that the gospel writers tell us about a
[10:47] Speaker 2: debilitating fear and how we're rescued from that debilitating fear.
[10:53] Speaker 2: We'll be right back with more answers to your questions
[10:55] Speaker 2: right here on the Bible Answer Man Broadcast again. The
[10:58] Speaker 2: resources I talk about on the broadcast you can find
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[11:04] Speaker 1: Every CRII outreach, our broadcast, podcast, website, resources, the Christian
[11:10] Speaker 1: Research Journal, and more is made possible only because of
[11:14] Speaker 1: friends like you. Your partnership matters. What kind of impact
[11:19] Speaker 1: has your partnership had an impact for time and for eternity.
[11:24] Speaker 1: Stand with Hank Hanagraph and the Christian Research Institute during
[11:28] Speaker 1: the key month of June to ensure that we end
[11:30] Speaker 1: the financial year in a position of strength. To make
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[11:52] Speaker 1: with more from Hank Hannagraph. Winston Churchill once declared you
[12:02] Speaker 1: may have to fight when there is no hope of victory,
[12:05] Speaker 1: because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
[12:09] Speaker 1: Churchill sought to awaken those who were reluctant to fight
[12:12] Speaker 1: against the advancing Nazi war machine. Today, a spiritual battle
[12:17] Speaker 1: is taking place. Atheism advances in the West, and slavery
[12:21] Speaker 1: to secularity is imprisoning more and more hearts and minds
[12:25] Speaker 1: in the United States. For this reason, crii's ministry is critical,
[12:30] Speaker 1: but we need people willing to stand for truth along
[12:33] Speaker 1: with the financial provisions to accomplish its mission. Stand with
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[15:07] Speaker 1: Now back to the Bible answer Man broadcast and your
[15:10] Speaker 1: host and canagraph.
[15:12] Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Randy, and back to the phone lines.
[15:14] Speaker 2: We'll talk to John and New Albany, Indiana. Hi.
[15:18] Speaker 5: John, Hey, good afternoon.
[15:20] Speaker 2: Hang.
[15:20] Speaker 5: Thank you so much for your considered answers to our questions.
[15:23] Speaker 5: I hope God continues to strengthen you.
[15:25] Speaker 1: Brother.
[15:27] Speaker 5: I have a oh this is not a very weighty question,
[15:32] Speaker 5: but it's found in Acts eleven. That's the prophet Acvius
[15:35] Speaker 5: when he prophesies about a worldwide famine to the Saints.
[15:40] Speaker 5: The considered decision among the apostles was to take up
[15:45] Speaker 5: a collection from the outskirts of Judea and send money
[15:49] Speaker 5: to I guess to Jerusalem. And it just seems a
[15:53] Speaker 5: strange request one, what would giving money do in restraining
[15:59] Speaker 5: worldwide famine or severe famine? And two, it just seems
[16:04] Speaker 5: that in some sense that either they if there was
[16:12] Speaker 5: going to be a worldwide famine, it would affect the
[16:15] Speaker 5: people to whom Agabus was speaking just as much as
[16:18] Speaker 5: the people in Jerusalem.
[16:20] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an interesting passage. And one of the things
[16:23] Speaker 2: I would say as a prologue to answering that question
[16:26] Speaker 2: is we know for a certainty that Luke was a
[16:32] Speaker 2: meticulous historian. That's pretty much universally acknowledged even today by
[16:39] Speaker 2: people who oftentimes doubt the credibility of the Bible. But
[16:44] Speaker 2: in context, what we have is during this time, a
[16:49] Speaker 2: particular time, a particular epic in the first century, some
[16:53] Speaker 2: prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch, and some of
[16:58] Speaker 2: them were making a prophecy in the vein that you
[17:02] Speaker 2: are talking about, including Agabus, who stood up and through
[17:07] Speaker 2: the spirit of God, predicted that a severe famine would
[17:11] Speaker 2: spread over the entire Roman world. And we are told
[17:16] Speaker 2: that this happened during the reign of Claudius. And if
[17:21] Speaker 2: you go to outside sources there is cooperation for this.
[17:25] Speaker 2: For example, Josephus, I think in Antiquities twenty refers to
[17:30] Speaker 2: a famine that corresponds to this time period. So the
[17:35] Speaker 2: import of this being communicated and acts is that the
[17:38] Speaker 2: disciples and you alluded to this, each according to his ability,
[17:42] Speaker 2: decided to provide help for the brothers living in Judea.
[17:46] Speaker 2: And this they did, sending their gifts to the elders
[17:51] Speaker 2: by Barnabas and Saul. So this great famine, it took
[17:56] Speaker 2: place somewheres around I think forty four through fifty, if
[18:00] Speaker 2: I recall, it begins in Judea, and then it spreads
[18:04] Speaker 2: to Greece and to Italy. And the point of the
[18:08] Speaker 2: passage is that the principle of giving each according to
[18:11] Speaker 2: his ability is a principle that was applied in the
[18:17] Speaker 2: church there, and it continues to be a principle that
[18:21] Speaker 2: we ought to apply in the Church in this epic
[18:24] Speaker 2: of time as well.
[18:26] Speaker 5: I agree. It just seems strange to me that money
[18:31] Speaker 5: would be the remedy for a famine, and too that
[18:35] Speaker 5: if it were going to eventually work its way through
[18:39] Speaker 5: the whole of the Roman world, that the money would
[18:43] Speaker 5: be just as useful there where it was being collected
[18:45] Speaker 5: in Antioch.
[18:47] Speaker 2: Well, yes, but here is a text in which we
[18:52] Speaker 2: don't know all of the situations in the church. I mean,
[18:56] Speaker 2: we simply don't have the details in terms of exactly
[18:59] Speaker 2: what's going on. So there are people who have resources
[19:03] Speaker 2: that can be used to help other Christians, and within
[19:06] Speaker 2: that millu they would have known about it in a
[19:09] Speaker 2: way that I couldn't off the tip of my tongue
[19:12] Speaker 2: tell you about. I simply wouldn't know. I mean, I'm
[19:15] Speaker 2: not saying it couldn't be known, I simply don't know.
[19:19] Speaker 5: I think it's interesting the emotional component to our giving,
[19:23] Speaker 5: and not to denigrate emotional appeals necessarily, but sometimes that's
[19:29] Speaker 5: all we have to go by. I think one of
[19:32] Speaker 5: the broader points there in the scripture is that there
[19:35] Speaker 5: was such compassion that was exercise throughout the church, that
[19:39] Speaker 5: everybody was willing to consider their brother's burden and give
[19:44] Speaker 5: a hand where they could. And yet in this particular instance,
[19:51] Speaker 5: you know, there was nothing but the word of a
[19:54] Speaker 5: prophecy that directed the saints to give in such a manner.
[19:59] Speaker 2: Yeah, but remember that. But the text itself says that
[20:01] Speaker 2: the disciples, each according to his ability, decided to provide
[20:07] Speaker 2: help for the brothers, so as they were able as
[20:10] Speaker 2: the Lord enabled them, they decided purposed in their hearts
[20:15] Speaker 2: to provide help, and this was for those living in Judea,
[20:20] Speaker 2: and they did that. And so this is a historical
[20:23] Speaker 2: narrative talking about something that actually happened, and there is
[20:28] Speaker 2: an application for us in the present day world as well. Great.
[20:33] Speaker 5: Yeah, well, not to give an improper plug, but giving
[20:36] Speaker 5: the CRI is a very tangible means of disseminating truth
[20:40] Speaker 5: to our country and people overseas, and it's something that
[20:45] Speaker 5: my wife and I are going to consider doing as
[20:46] Speaker 5: soon as I get off this phone.
[20:48] Speaker 2: Thank you so much, John, I appreciate your call. I
[20:53] Speaker 2: wanted to mention an answer to a question that I
[20:56] Speaker 2: think is important, and that is a question I got
[21:00] Speaker 2: on Facebook, which is about whether or not the Bible
[21:04] Speaker 2: states that a Christian must go to church in order
[21:07] Speaker 2: to go to heaven. And this is a question that
[21:10] Speaker 2: I desire very much to answer on today's edition of
[21:14] Speaker 2: the Bible answer Man Broadcast, because when someone becomes a
[21:19] Speaker 2: follower of Jesus Christ, they're baptized into Christ and they
[21:24] Speaker 2: become members of His body. Now it is within the
[21:29] Speaker 2: body of Christ that we receive the graces by which
[21:35] Speaker 2: we become by grace what God is by nature. We
[21:40] Speaker 2: become gods by grace. We become God's by participation. This
[21:47] Speaker 2: is not to say that we become gods in the
[21:49] Speaker 2: sense of the Word of Faith movement, where God looks
[21:55] Speaker 2: like us and we look like God. We are again
[21:59] Speaker 2: not God's by no nature. We are God's by participation,
[22:04] Speaker 2: participating in the divine nature. As Peter puts it, it
[22:10] Speaker 2: is within the body of Christ again that we receive
[22:14] Speaker 2: the graces by which we become by grace what God
[22:17] Speaker 2: is by nature. We emulate the early Christians who devoted
[22:22] Speaker 2: themselves to the apostles, teaching, to fellowship, to the breaking
[22:27] Speaker 2: of bread, to prayer within the community, the fellowship of
[22:33] Speaker 2: the saints, and far from being born again. Therefore as
[22:38] Speaker 2: rugged individualists, we are born into a body of believers
[22:44] Speaker 2: of which Christ is the head. And therefore, therefore, as
[22:50] Speaker 2: Hebrews commends us, let us not give up meeting together
[22:57] Speaker 2: as some are in the habit of dear I took
[23:02] Speaker 2: the time a number of years ago to memorize Romans
[23:06] Speaker 2: chapter twelve, and the reason I did is this whole
[23:11] Speaker 2: chapter is focused on how we are to use our
[23:16] Speaker 2: gifts within the community of faith. Christ is building his church,
[23:22] Speaker 2: He is perfecting his bride, He is perfecting the full
[23:27] Speaker 2: complement of God's people expressed within a community of faith. Again,
[23:34] Speaker 2: the church is the spiritual gymnasium. It is the place
[23:39] Speaker 2: where we have the great privilege every single week to
[23:44] Speaker 2: partake of the body and blood of our Lord and Savior,
[23:48] Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, his broken body, his shed blood, his pure body,
[23:55] Speaker 2: his precious blood, and that gives us an energy to
[24:02] Speaker 2: live our lives, not by might nor by power, but
[24:06] Speaker 2: by His spirit. When we partake of Christ, we partake
[24:12] Speaker 2: of uncreated energy, for only God is uncreated, and in
[24:19] Speaker 2: that circumstance we experience something that's far beyond the biological
[24:26] Speaker 2: not by us, but we experience zoetic energy. This is
[24:32] Speaker 2: the kind of energy that rewired the circuits of the apostles.
[24:39] Speaker 2: Peter James John on the Mount of Transfiguration saw the
[24:46] Speaker 2: resurrected Christ transformed, and when they saw the transformation of Christ,
[24:56] Speaker 2: they themselves were transformed. Suddenly they recognize that there was
[25:03] Speaker 2: a realm and a reality far beyond the biological sphere,
[25:08] Speaker 2: and that they could partake in that reality. And ultimately,
[25:14] Speaker 2: this is the power, the power alone that allows us
[25:19] Speaker 2: to be reproducing disciple makers, because on our own energy
[25:26] Speaker 2: we are going to eventually simply well just run out.
[25:34] Speaker 2: But his energy, It's like plugging your laptop into a
[25:38] Speaker 2: source that is inexhaustible. When we tap in to the
[25:46] Speaker 2: spiritual graces available within the church. Now we live not
[25:50] Speaker 2: by might nor by power, but by His spirit. Out
[25:54] Speaker 2: of time for this edition of the Bible inser Man Broadcast,
[25:57] Speaker 2: look forward to seeing it next time with more.
[25:59] Speaker 1: Of the show. Thank you for joining us today. June
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[27:07] Speaker 1: the victory, but the Soviets battled back from near certain
[27:10] Speaker 1: defeat with extraordinary courage and resoluteness to turn the tide
[27:15] Speaker 1: of the battle and ultimately the war. The lesson is
[27:18] Speaker 1: that both men and material people and provisions played a
[27:22] Speaker 1: critical role. Willingness to fight and munitions in the arsenal
[27:26] Speaker 1: were pivotal. Our contemporary battle for truth against anti Christian
[27:31] Speaker 1: secularists raises the stakes above the significance of Stalingrad. CRI
[27:37] Speaker 1: likewise needs military partners willing to stand for truth, along
[27:41] Speaker 1: with the financial means to accomplish the mission. Stand with
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[27:47] Speaker 1: fiscal year in a position of strength. Call eight eight
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