Frequently Asked Questions

How to Use This Page

Scripture: 1 Peter 3:15. These are real questions, and I have answered each one as plainly as I can in a few lines. For a ministry overview see About. For what I believe see What We Believe and the Statement of Faith. For Dave specifically see Meet Dave and the Dave FAQ. For prayer and support see Support. For giving details see Give and the Donation Policy. Greek: κύριον δὲ τὸν ⸀Χριστὸν ἁγιάσατε ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ὑμῶν, ⸀ἕτοιμοι ἀεὶ πρὸς ἀπολογίαν παντὶ τῷ αἰτοῦντι ὑμᾶς λόγον περὶ τῆς ἐν ὑμῖν ἐλπίδος,

About the Ministry

• What is Dancz Ministries? A Christian ministry built to put Scripture, worship, and community in front of people wherever they already are. It includes RuachDavid, the Sanctum, and Dave as a helper. Start at /about for the full overview.
• Is this a church? No. It is a ministry that works alongside the local church, never a replacement, and I point people toward a faithful local body. See /churches.
• What do you believe? Seven core convictions on /beliefs, and the full confession on /statement-of-faith. The short version is that the Bible is true, Jesus is Lord, creation declares His glory, and this ministry points people to the church, not to itself.
• Who built this? I did, Ryan Dancz, one person answering a calling rather than a software company. The DAVAR runtime I wrote is what makes the site work at this scale. My story is at /about-ryan.
• Is the site really built without WordPress or JavaScript? Yes, on the public pages. Every public page is served by davar_http.exe, a program I wrote in C, and rendered on the server from .davar contracts. There is no client-side JavaScript on the public site, no PHP, and no third-party CMS.

About Dave AI

Dave is a reasoning engine I built to work through Scripture, Hebrew and Greek roots, and the creation research corpus. He treats all of that as study aids, never as authorities over the Bible itself.\n\nHe can walk through passages with you, reason about creation from the text outward, offer Scripture-grounded reflection, help shape a prayer, and sit with a passage alongside you. He is not omniscient, infallible, the Holy Spirit, or a person. When he does not know something, he says so.\n\nTalking with Dave is the one part of the site I charge for, and it pays for the compute that keeps everything else free. The Bible reader, the community, the Sanctum wiki, and the creation atlas all stay free. Full boundaries are on /dave.

About the Community Platform

The community includes a social feed, forums, chat rooms, a church directory, meetups, groups, profiles, and direct messaging. Reading is open to anyone, and posting just requires a free account.\n\nAll of it runs on one native SQLite database, the same one that holds Bible reading, forum posts, prayer requests, and community connections. One stack, one runtime, which is a large part of why I could build the whole thing alone. Explore it at /community.

Giving and Support

There are four ways to stand with the ministry. You can give through /giving-info with a one-time or recurring gift, subscribe to talk with Dave and cover some of the compute, pray through /support where I answer with Scripture-grounded prayer as capacity allows, or simply share the work with someone who needs it.\n\nGiving never buys access. The site and the community stay free. Donation rules, refunds, and recurring-gift boundaries are on /donation-policy, and billing questions go to [email protected].

Question Not Listed?

If your question is not here, ask Dave, or reach Support for prayer and a human reply as capacity allows. Dave answers from the text, and I read what you send myself.