Question: In your principles of decision making according to the way of wisdom, you describe how the believer should respond to God's moral guidance, wisdom guidance, and sovereign guidance. Why is there no similar principle for God's special guidance? (Chapter 15)

Answer: There is debate among evangelical leaders whether God gives supernatural guidance today in the same ways that He occasionally did during the biblical era. I see nothing in Scripture that would prevent Him from doing so. And so, as I indicated earlier, it is inappropriate for the believer to be closed off to such guidance out of hand. But even in the biblical record, special guidance is rare. Since principles of decision making attempt to summarize the believer's normative experience, I see no guidelines emerging from the text that ought to be applied in the routine business of decision making.

Having said that, any comprehensive theology of guidance must respond to the fact that God has provided special direction to specific people from time to time. And readers' questions call for a more thorough analysis of the Bible's teaching on this subject.