RTBS: 02/25 | Q&A

Scriptura Roundtable Bible Study Notes Q&A

02/25/2026

1. Is it ever right to leave a church because you’re not “being fed”?

Core Answer:

Sometimes yes — often no. Leaving over doctrine is biblical. Leaving over preference is immaturity.

Biblical Foundation:

Hebrews 13:17

“Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account…”

2 Timothy 4:3–4

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth…”

Acts 17:11

“These were more noble… in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”

Response Notes:

If a church abandons sound doctrine — leave.

If a church tolerates unrepentant sin — confront, then leave if necessary.

But “I’m not being fed” often means:

I’m not growing personally.

I don’t like the style.

I’m not being entertained.

Maturity feeds itself during the week. Sunday isn’t your only meal.

Leaving should be covenantal, not emotional. If you can leave easily, you were probably consuming, not belonging.

2. How do you forgive someone who hasn’t apologized?

Core Answer:

You forgive vertically before God. Reconciliation horizontally requires repentance.

Biblical Foundation:

Mark 11:25

“And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any…”

Romans 12:18

“If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.”

Ephesians 4:31–32

“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger… be put away from you… And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”

Response Notes:

Forgiveness is releasing vengeance to God.

FORGIVENESS IS SETTLED IN YOUR HEART BETWEEN YOU AND GOD, IT IS COMMANDED ALWAYS

RECONCILIATION IS SETTLED BETWEEN YOU AND THE OTHER PERSON, AND IS ADVISED AND ENCOURAGED WHERE POSSIBLE

It does not mean:

Trust is restored.

Access is restored.

Leadership is restored.

You can forgive and still set boundaries.

Bitterness chains you to the offense. Forgiveness frees you — not them.

3. When does loyalty become enabling sin?

Core Answer:

When your loyalty protects someone’s rebellion instead of their repentance.

TRUE LOYALTY IS DOING WHAT IS BEST FOR THE PERSON, NOT WHAT IS BEST FOR YOURSELF AND THE RELATIONSHIP

Biblical Foundation:

Proverbs 27:6

“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.”

1 Corinthians 5:6

“Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?”

James 5:19–20

“Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth… let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death…”

Response Notes:

Real loyalty confronts.

Protecting someone from consequences is not love.

Silence in the name of unity is cowardice.

If sin spreads because you refused to speak, you’re complicit.

4. Why did Elisha curse the youths and bears maul them? (2 Kings 2:23–24)

2 Kings 2:23–24 NKJV

Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

“Youths” likely means young men.

It was a mob, not toddlers.

Mocking God’s prophet was mocking God’s authority.

God establishing prophetic authority early in Elisha’s ministry.

5. At what point does “struggling with sin” become loving your sin?

Core Answer:

When you stop fighting it and struggling with it

Biblical Foundation:

James 1:14–15

“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust… Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin…”

Romans 6:1–2

“Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid.”

1 John 3:6

“Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him…”

Response Notes:

Struggle = war.

Love = agreement.

If you:

Hide it

Defend it

Rename it

Blame others for it You’re no longer struggling. You’re partnering.

Grace empowers holiness — it doesn’t excuse compromise.

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