Your Questions Do we have to fill in our own pot holes ?(ripple of laughter) What single cut back would be the county’s biggest mistake? Why couldn’t the council deal with the snow on the pavements?

These are some of the questions asked at the Radio Verulam recording of “Your Questions” in the Maltings Arts Theatre St.Albans last week.

The debate was lively and rightly so as all the questions were to do with justice in this community.

But imagine a “Your Questions” set up by God, with Jesus as the sole panellist. What would you ask? I think I could guess some of your questions.

Here’s one :-“Why do you allow all the suffering in the world ? Couldn’t you have stopped the earthquake in Japan? "

Here’s another question:- “What can I do about my thoughts? I still feel guilty over a certain issue.”

And another :- “If you are real,God, couldn’t you just do a world -wide miracle and show us, once and for all ,that you exist?

I don’t think Jesus would have bored us all with a lengthy debate.

Instead of talking he’d show a video clip. There would be no reasoning, no debate. He would show himself experiencing the worst method of execution that the Romans could devise - the shame, the agony, the death.

Then maybe he’d just say ”That‘s your answer from Father God. That was to free you from your guilt, to take your suffering on myself and to show you love in action.”

Broadcast over. Discussion begins.

Elspeth Jackman, of the Vineyard Church St.Albans